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Diva started peeing outside the box again this week. Last night she peed all over the table while we were finishing up giving her nightly dose of sub-qs. :( She's drinking water all the time, too...Time to go back to the vet.
Unfortunately her bladder was mostly empty so Dr B wasn't able to get a urine sample to test to verify for sure that she's got another urinary tract infection, but he decided to give her a shot of the antibiotic Convenia anyway, along with a vitamin B12 shot. He was on the fence about doing a short blood draw to check her kidneys as it's only been a month since her last draw, but I sorta insisted since he said the peeing outside the box/drinking too much could also be a sign her kidneys are flagging....
And they are... :(
May 8th's numbers:
Amylaze: 1348 (high normal 1100)
BUN: 44 (high normal 30)
Phosphorous: 6.5 (high normal 8.5)
Creatinine: 3.5 (high normal 2.1)
Today's numbers:
Amylaze: 1500
BUN: 64
Phosphorous: 8.9
Creatinine: 4.9
As you can see, she's in decline. Here's the thing: she's on the maximum recommended dose of sub-q fluids for her weight per day, as well as being on the recommended meds. The only thing we can alter to try to correct these numbers is her diet--putting her back on K/D kibble. Right now I feed her Science Diet mature formula turkey wet food with a dash of A/D crisis food for extra flavor/nutrients with a cocktail of Miralax, Benefiber, and baby food squash mixed in in efforts to get her to keep her bowels moving, which has been successful. She used to be on a med called Enulose for that, but it basically stopped working for her so we took her off it in favour of the wet food cocktail. There are two different companies that make wet food that's Rx for kidneys but she refuses to eat them, so we can't go that route...
The trick now is to try to switch her diet over to kibble again but keep her bowels moving. :/ I don't know how we're going to be able to pull this off if Enulose still isn't working...:/ I don't know what to do. Dr B says that it's imperative we get her back on at least some of the Kidney Rx diet some of the time in hopes of getting her numbers back in line...I just don't know if we can do that. At least we've got one thing going for us--she will eat and keep down K/D kibble. In fact she eats it with gusto!
I'm scared for my girl... :(
Unfortunately her bladder was mostly empty so Dr B wasn't able to get a urine sample to test to verify for sure that she's got another urinary tract infection, but he decided to give her a shot of the antibiotic Convenia anyway, along with a vitamin B12 shot. He was on the fence about doing a short blood draw to check her kidneys as it's only been a month since her last draw, but I sorta insisted since he said the peeing outside the box/drinking too much could also be a sign her kidneys are flagging....
And they are... :(
May 8th's numbers:
Amylaze: 1348 (high normal 1100)
BUN: 44 (high normal 30)
Phosphorous: 6.5 (high normal 8.5)
Creatinine: 3.5 (high normal 2.1)
Today's numbers:
Amylaze: 1500
BUN: 64
Phosphorous: 8.9
Creatinine: 4.9
As you can see, she's in decline. Here's the thing: she's on the maximum recommended dose of sub-q fluids for her weight per day, as well as being on the recommended meds. The only thing we can alter to try to correct these numbers is her diet--putting her back on K/D kibble. Right now I feed her Science Diet mature formula turkey wet food with a dash of A/D crisis food for extra flavor/nutrients with a cocktail of Miralax, Benefiber, and baby food squash mixed in in efforts to get her to keep her bowels moving, which has been successful. She used to be on a med called Enulose for that, but it basically stopped working for her so we took her off it in favour of the wet food cocktail. There are two different companies that make wet food that's Rx for kidneys but she refuses to eat them, so we can't go that route...
The trick now is to try to switch her diet over to kibble again but keep her bowels moving. :/ I don't know how we're going to be able to pull this off if Enulose still isn't working...:/ I don't know what to do. Dr B says that it's imperative we get her back on at least some of the Kidney Rx diet some of the time in hopes of getting her numbers back in line...I just don't know if we can do that. At least we've got one thing going for us--she will eat and keep down K/D kibble. In fact she eats it with gusto!
I'm scared for my girl... :(