I will ask at work tomorrow (physician and techs that have performed that procedure) for more info about the barium study.
In the meantime, if she seems to be doing better, I'm wondering if you should just try giving her 1/4 of a Children's Pepcid Complete?? Let me ask the physician in our office about that tomorrow too....I know the medicine I take for acid reflux (Protonix) actually is preventative AND works to heal damage that's already been done. I also wouldn't mind calling my vet to ask that question for you--he's always been really honest with me and usually suggests trying something else first if at all possible before doing anything expensive. He's even seen my cat 3 days after a visit to the emergency vet just to check on her and make sure she was okay...and DIDN'T CHARGE ME ANYTHING!! (I called to ask a question about what they had done at the emergency vet to make sure nothing else needed to be done, and he asked that I come in for a check up. At the time I thought "Great!! Expensive emergency vet visit and now I have to go for a check up, which is going to be even more money! But after he checked her, he ushered me out the front door and said I didn't owe him a thing--the back door is the exit and is where you pay on your way out....it just made me love him even more!!) |