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Originally Posted by Daisy211  She's on canine caviar venison due to a sensitive belly. She won't be able to handle the prescription diets to help dissolve stones. They sent out her stone to be analyzed which was about 200 dollars. No X-rays yet and the vet wanted to try clavamox first before during a urine culture since we have recently spent thousands on trying to diagnose the bloody diarrhea and vomiting. If I bring a urine sample in and they send it out that's going to cost me another 200 dollars? I feel horrible but I don't know if I can afford that at this time. |
Maybe that's is the culture & sensitivity? You can ask your vet. If a culture & sensitivity is done, you won't be spending more money on trying different antibiotics & more urinalysis tests...if she's been on clavamox since June, that's almost 3 months & whenever she's off it, she starts bleeding again. I have to question if the antibiotic is working @ all?
This is from a take home 'type of tests' info that my vet gave me:
Culture or Grow the organism in a special medium in the laboratory. After an organism is cultured, it can be examined and tested for sensitivity to antibiotic drugs. Small doses of various antibiotics are placed on the culture medium to help determine which one will be most effective against the disease producing organism.