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Teddy's urinary crystals have now turned to stones. We have previously dissolved his type of stone (struvite) with a medication (uroeze) added to his food and for a while we were successful and he was clear. The crystals came back and despite trying to flush them out by liquifying his diet and do diet alterations, he now has stones.

He also has mineralization in the kidney, consistent with chronic renal disease. This was very upsetting because Teddy is only 5 years old. I hope we can find a good plan for him and try to address this again. I am waiting on further test results.

Teddy is a rare sterile struvite maker. This is a problem seen in less than 1% of dogs and most of the time a dog with struvite stones has a urinary infection or kidney infection.

The diet he has been on for the past 30 days should have dissolved the stones but instead Teddy made some!! Unfortunately they are too big to pass. The internal medicine specialist is waiting for guidance from the vet nutritionist on the best option for Teddy and then we will go from there. If he does not dissolve the stones with the diet, he will need to undergo general anesthesia for a hydropulsion procedure to break up the stones and they will squeeze them out of his bladder.

My poor little Teddy. I was so optimistic and had the appt w/ the IMS before the ultrasound and we were discussing his long range diet and plan options. I was literally just astounded to hear he had stones!

UGH!!!