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I know this is way off subject but you said he has a livershunt? Did they do a Bile Acid test on him? You dont want to mess around with this if he does have it. Livershunt needs to be surgically repaired. Im happy to hear hes recovering from this injury. Im just concerned about this livershunt. Please do some research on it
http://tsfannymaelivershuntfund.home...com/index.html http://www.vet.utk.edu/clinical/sacs/shunt/faq.shtml
Livershunt kills if not surgically corrected.
Im not a vet but did your vet mention something about Atlantoaxial Instabilty? This can happen from extreme trauma to the neck.
http://www.petplace.com/dogs/atlanto...ion/page1.aspx
Chrissy,
Thank you for the infor on Atlantoaxial. I don't remember the surgent saying anything about that, but that sure sounds like my Babybears problems. He has cried since he was about 8 months old for someone to rub his neck. I kept taken him to the vets and my vet kept saying it was a pinched nerve not to worry. They would give me something to relax him and send me home every time. Then in May he had a incident where my husband walked up beside him and to ask him what he was barking at and Babybear fell to his side and had a seziure. We started to rush him to the vets and he got up and started running around. So I called the vet and asked the for an appointment and they told me to come in about an hour later. Well Babybear was walking sideways. It seemed funny. They told me that he pinched his nerve again but this time it caused him to have a seziure gave me meds again and sent me home. I thought that was all true, because I had just a week before had my mother in the hospital for a pinched nerve that threw her into a sezuire. Then this happend 6 weeks tomorrow. But this time he broke his neck.
Oh and also I have researched the livershunts and he has none of the symtoms of that. Thank goodness. THis is bad enough. When this all happend he weight 15 pounds and I have notices with the livershunts the dogs are very small in size. He sure wasn't small in size. He has since lost weight because of not eating as well, but he is starting to make up for that also.
I want to thank you again for the sites you sent me too. I love to research things. ANd this helps me alot. So now I can go into the vets on Monday knowing more questions to ask him.
Thanks
Val