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Originally Posted by LyndalB  Hello everyone
Thank you all so much for the well wishes and the suggestions. It really has been a frustrating and heart-breaking at the same time. I just want her to get better. I feel so helpless.
She was back at the specialist yesterday, and now that we've ruled out the most common things, he's suggested possibly a problem with her nervous system, or a cardiac problem, because of the fainting. The next thing he wants to do is an EKG, but I'm supposed to first try take her pulse the next time she faints, which is much easier said than done. When she went in for the scope they checked all her vital functions, and he was happy with everything. After the scope the vet suggested maybe rhinitis as the problem, and the current medication she is on is to clear that up. She is going for a check up on Monday.
Right now we are feeding her like a baby with a spoon, which keeps her head level or slightly tilted up, and it seems to prevent the fainting. |
I see this is a specialist....he MUST know a resting EKG is about a useless waste of money....unless you luck out and she actually faints while they are doing it....I would insist on a Holter monitor...that attaches to the dog for however many days they want, and it provides a continous running trace of exactly what her heart is doing, 24*/day....you make notes at different times...like "9pm...started to cough......10pm....drinking water....10:05 passed out....." and then they look back and compare the times you have recorded in your notes that something weird had happened, to exactly what her heart was doing at that moment. That is how they can tell if it is her heart that is causing this fainting to happen....