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Originally Posted by dwerten  Just how you feel strongly about dosing on meds I feel just as strongly that people need to question their vets if something does not seem right. How many times have we seen on here over and over and over the vet cannot figure out what is wrong with my dog as the blood work looks good but my dog keeps having diarhea and as soon as the antibiotic is done the dog has diarrhea and they are at a loss. More than I can count and we all know ibd runs in this breed and the dog is eating a chicken based diet. So should we say - oh bc your vet cannot figure it out just keep giving the dog the chicken diet and hopefully after running thousands of dollars in testing and sedating your dog and doing endoscopy to come up with the same diagnosis - up yes IBD and your dog cannot eat chicken diet - I think that is less invasive than giving doseages of medication when some of us have been down that road and spent thousands of dollars figuring it out. |
No one is saying people shouldn't question their vets, I'm sorry you are getting that interpretation from the posts on this thread. I think you have been very helpful to people, but all advice must be offered tentatively, as in "it's possible," or "it may be this", or ask "your vet about this." Also, sometimes people offer links, and don't even understand what the link is saying and offer poor advice based on what they "think" the link means. This can be outright dangerous. When you have a problem with your dogs, you say you ask the vet lots of questions and like vets who welcome your questions. I think this is such great advice, and I wouldn't ever want a vet who didn't welcome my questions. I'm upset when you say things like, "If people would have listened to me, so and so would still be alive", I just am very uncomfortable when you say things like this because this makes YOU sound God like. While it's wonderful to help people, sometimes I think egos are too involved in the advice. Lets make sure we are helping for the right reasons. I do want to say, some of your advice is extremely helpful, but you are not privy to everything the vet has told the client, and visa versa, so criticizing the vet seems out of line.