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Originally Posted by imdll  I hope people are not misunderstanding. The scary episode with all the symptoms was last week. Lulu didn't have blood in her vomit only bile and she didn't have some sort of violent vomiting episode or something like that, she gagged a little bit and threw up a little bit of bile which would indicate her stomach must have been empty at the time.
Yes there was some blood (read a little bit of blood) in the mucous or on the outside of her stool when there was stool later that evening. If you read about these sorts of incidents you discover that it can happen and is not cause for alarm as long as it is not something that lasts or repeats.
Taking Lu to the vet when she no longer has symptoms is like taking your child to the doctor when they had a fever yesterday but are fine today and are running around playing like nothing happened. What would you like the doctor or vet to do when symptoms are not currently present and only lasted for a short period of time? From what I have been reading the time to become concerned is if she does it again, which is why I was concerned last night but then nothing further developed.
It's not necessary to run to the vet or the doctor for every little thing. If there had been anything in what I read or in Lu's current health that indicated this was something to be immediately checked out then that is what I would do.
I did feel a twinge of panic last night when I thought she might be starting up the same cycle because that would definitely indicate she needs to be seen by a vet and that it could possibly be something more serious. My twinge of panic was apparently for nothing as no other symptoms returned and Lu ate fine, played, raced around like a crazy woman (zoomies) and her bowel movements were normal last night and this has continued throughout today.
I was simply asking if anyone here had experienced something similar with their dog and if they found it to be stress related. (ie. like maybe something like irritable bowel etc.)
As far as the possibility of it being from her shots, while it is remote I have come across articles where dogs have had unusual reactions several weeks after receiving their shots. Apparently it can take time for a dog's immune system to react sometimes.
I hope how I described things earlier did not have people worried that I was being irresponsible or that I was unaware that such symptoms could indicates a serious health issue. I assure you this is not the case. |
Just read this post. I do agree with you in that running to the vet for EVERY little thing is not always the right thing to do, nor plausible.
But, to me, blood in throw up or stool is a big enough concern to get to the vet. Even if it's barely anything. That's nothing to take lightly, in humans or animals. And like said above, I can imagine if a parent saw blood in their childs stool one day, but it wasn't there the next... they would STILL take them to the doctor.
When Jackson had supposed-pancreatitis (I say this because the vet never officially gave me a diagnosis in the end, but they did make my little man better, and for that I am grateful), he was actually feeling fine by the next day. Even after all his tummy had went through (bloody stool and bloody vomit) and being in a strange vet on IV's, etc, he came home ready to go and ready to play. But his body still wasn't fully better. Just like when you give a child with a fever some Tylenol and they think they are better and then a few hours later feel worse. It does not mean they are better per say.
I am not here to argue with you or anything because I totally get where you are coming from completely. But I do think this is an issue where you just bring her in.