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Originally Posted by Chachi'sMom  PS
The medicine Chachi takes is Butorphanol-one before bedtime.
Each case is different, some dogs need it daily, whereas my Chachi has problems with the cough on and off.
In the past week he is coughing, so he is getting the pill. he is also over weight by at least 3-5 lbs and has put on more weight in the past month as the weather grew cold here. He is litterbox trained, so he doesn't get out for walks or in the yard like he should. I know I must get out and walk him more now, but the temp today was 15 and I am afraid the chilled air could stir up some coughing. |
Our little Samie cannot go for walks anymore. Our vet prescribed Flovent inhaler that i give to her with an infant mask suppopsed to give her 2x's a day but i only do 1 x every day in the evenings. i think giving her 2 x's a day makes her too excited and she pants while she is sleeping. I do not know if 2s's a day really was causing the panting but i do know that since i have only been masking her with the flovent once a day she has not done the heavy panting while she is sleeping. (that is the only time she pants a lot) it's a fast panting too and it freaks me out.
We also have Hydromet -cough syrup. I only give her as needed. But she turns blue every time i give her a bath. not while I am washing her because i do not put her head under water. (Her head i wash with a washcloth).
It's when i start to dry her that she starts to roll around on the floor like a maniac and i have to try to stop her. she gets out of breath quick rolling on her sides and then she will stand up and sit still bc she can't breathe. i try everything in my power to not let her get excited at all. but she just gets so playful and crazy when she is all wet. I hold her down in a towel too and it does not help. Her little tongue starts to look greyish and the underside of her tongue 2 lines of purple. it freaks me out to the point where i get really nervous. she will do it only once or twice but it makes me so scared. I keep her short so she dries faster and is stays clean longer. I give her a bath sometime every 2-3 months just because bathtime is very scary. She coughed really bad last week but so far so good. it was last Saturday night her last episode. She inhales her food while eating and i try to get her to eat slower. But she had a fainting episode 1 month ago while eating her and my other dog were fighting over there food (I no longer just set the food down and walk away, i have to stay with Samie until she is finished eating) that was a very scary day for me and although she is fine now. When we had her xrays done in june there were signs of ct. but a month ago when we did xrays it had progressed. Does anyone know if it showed up on the xray worse than her June xrays because she had just had the attack 2 hours earlier that morning? I am hoping that maybe it has gone back to the way it looked just 6 mos ago. i know that may be wishful thinking but i am hoping since she collapsed and fainted and then had xrays only hours afterwards maybe it the xrays were worse because of that.