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Originally Posted by LordRanger  Sometimes as a diagnostic, if a medicine will not do any harm, they can prescribe a med and see if the dog responds to it. if he does, that isolates the problem. With sildenafil, a positive response would indicate a circulation problem. If the possible circulation problem could be life-threatening if not treated early, it's possible to go ahead and prescribe the sildenafil and then go ahead with the lab work as well. If it turns out he does not respond to the sildenafil, we know the side effects are not that bad (unless it lasts for more than 6 hours....). |
To each his own.
I would never go to a vet who used meds to diagnose my pup. ALL meds have side effects....not to mention the fact a pup could die while they were playing around using meds to diagnose something that maybe could have been treated correctly from the start.
In Teddy's case.......treating with cardiac meds when he needed an antibiotic????? Seems a bit off to me. BUT, I don't know what diagnostics the vet offered / or didn't offer to do in the first place...or was or was not permitted to do. IE: was blood work done? Who knows.