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Originally Posted by Kerryn915  Thank you so much. The vet was so sure that it wasn't collapsed trachea. I was so relieved....and then at the end at the vet ER, the doctor said "severe collapsed trachea"....I could hardly breathe...ppl die everyday bc of misdiagnosis from doctors.... The same goes for vets...I should have gotten a second opinion 2 weeks ago. |
Honestly, I'm not sure a second opinion two weeks ago would have changed this. Maybe you could've broken the cough temporarily but there's no cure. Xrays don't always diagnose the CT because it's a dynamic condition. So maybe your vet wasn't misdiagnosing him as much as she didn't see evidence on an X-ray and in a very young dog she wasn't highly suspicious. They aren't God. But I wouldn't be going back... I know I couldn't. She didn't have it right, and that would bother me. I would let her know this because anytime a yorkie is coughing with a tracheal sound it should be within the diagnostic rule outs. You're not alone though, my last stupid vet gave me Claritin for Barney for his cough and said it was allergies. I already knew he had CT and was fuming.
Try to be at peace with all of this. Your boy is running free and you're not to blame at all!