Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Taylor, this is awful. I'm so sorry, just saw this. I hope you have some answers by now.
Just wild thoughts here to ask your vet about if you don't. If she were human I'd say this sort of sounds like walking pneumonia but I'm sure they've listened to her lung sounds every visit, done repeat chest films with her history of aspiration onset of symptoms and checked for high white count. With people, they always say if your URI symptoms/cold/flu worsen while undergoing treatment for it, you could have early or low-grade pneumonia that Doc missed or no culture was done so wrong antibiotics aren't helping URI. URI's can turn into pneumonia in humans pretty fast and not everybody coughs a lot with it, whether bacterial or viral pneumonia. I never did when I had it, just great trouble breathing, worse nights, some days hardly bad at all, others really scary as I was here alone at the time.
Air-hunger as with congestive heart issues can cause restlessness. My sis's dog had heart congestion so he was constantly changing positions after his regular vet had diagnosed heart congestion, started him on meds, but she found out his meds weren't strong enough to help him so new specialist vet increased them and had to hospitalize him for intensive treatment. By the time she got him to cardiologist who said his heart was weaker, further enlarged from inadequate medication dose and not giving him another drug he should have been on for heart congestion and he was pretty miserable, terribly restless, needed oxygen and many more meds , poor little guy.
Tibbe got aspirate focal pneumonia from reverse sneezing after drinking water that went down the "wrong way" but luckily I caught it that same day as later that afternoon, he just stood in the middle of the den floor, occas. kind of hacking or trying to reverse sneeze again w/out really doing it as he'd often do after a reverse sneezing episode, giving me a hang-dog-momma-help-me look over and over so off to the vet we went. Vet listened to his chest, took chest films, said it was enlarged heart, get him to the Emergency Vet Hospital with the chest films they'd done ASAP, for IV, oxygen and a cardiac Doppler. Rushed him there, internist did basic exam checking vitals, listening to heart/chest, looking into throat, ears, etc., started IV, took blood and repeated chest films, diagnosed early aspirate focal pneumonia even before his bloodwork was finished in the lab! Said the way the lung overlapped the heart in films sometimes it was easy to miss early early or focal pneumonia. Did the Doppler just to be sure($700 extra to be sure, haha, but with our babies we must be sure!) but cardiologist said his heart was not enlarged and was fine. Before Doppler, internist gave him shot of antibiotics and after, sent him home on liquid antibiotics and he was fine. Never coughed even once after I got him home that night but was restless with noisy breathing for a couple of days or so. After his medication course was finished, repeat chest films showed he was clear of pneumonia. Just throwing out thoughts.
I'll pray for our Callie, just got to get her well. She's my girl at heart, too, and such a sweet little fighter through all her problems. With her determined Mom, though, I know you won't stop pushing and asking questions until you get some answers and diagnosis/treatment for Callie. Give her a hug for me. |