Poor Brodie has been through SO much and he just turned 1! UGH! He passed a very large urate stone today (which was why he was straining and crying). The vet said the drooling was likely because he was stressed, hurting and drinking so much - he had gone through 2 bowls of water. Since he passed the stone he has calmed down significantly and isn't crying in pain any longer. However, he had his last stones removed in March and the vet said they shouldn't be forming this quickly. Today she sent me home with some pain medicine for him should he need it and told me to call her in the morning and let me know how he was doing. We took another set of xrays, which showed no stones (of course the first time she did xrays no stones showed and then surgery removed 2large ones, so I really can't understand why she insists I waste my money on this each time). If he was straining and in pain tomorrow she wanted to run another ultrasound. While I was there she ran another blood panel to look at his liver function. His liver has been deemed "normal" size. Unless there in an internal shunt they have seen nothing on the exterior.
Anyone else have an issue with urate stones? How can I prevent them? |