Your advice needed - Re: Stones in bladder My 2 year old pup was originally diagnosed with a UTI. Still passing some blood 1 week later it was determined that she has 2 stones in her bladder. I am told that she has to undergo surgery asap, called a cystomamy, (SP). They will open her up, flush out the stones and sew her up. I am told it is major, but common and that I cannot wait to see if changing her food to crystalize the stones will work. Does anyone out there know anything about this? Any advice welcomed. Thanks, Susan |
Were the crystals analyzed/what type of stones are suspected? Struvite? Never had to deal with stone removal, but it sounds like your vet is on the right track. |
Ummm, don't remember which kind, I was in shock, she is only 2. Thank you for responding. |
My foster katie underwent bladderstone surgery recently. She had the stones for well over a year, and her owner was in denial that anything was wrong. She was peeing straight blood! We had her xrayed and found four large stones in her bladder. Your vet should be able to see them if he gets an xray. It is a major surgery. She needs to get bloodwork done before hand as well. Katie's white cell count was too high, and was anemic due to all the peeing blood, so she had to stay at the hospital for 2 days hooked up to IV to flush out her system before they would do surgery. If she indeed has the same type of stones, they will not just simply go away. In fact, they could grow, just as they did on Katie, also due to the former owner not feeding the food she was prescibed to be on from the vet. Get a second opinion if you feel more comfortable with it, but if your baby is still peeing blood, you can be sure she is in pain. I would get this taken care of asap. Oh also wanted to say, after her surgery, she stayed another day at the hospital for observation. Once I picked her up, she had only one or two pees with a very slight tinge of pink. After the second day the pee was all back to yellow. So if one week later and still pink or red, I would be worried. Please give us an update on your baby, and hope she gets better really soon. |
Your advice was great. Thank you for your advice. Feel better knowing your foster healing up really fast. If they have them once, does that mean they are prone to having them again? I am worried about this. |
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As you know I am going through this right now with Bitsy. We are still awaiting the results of the stone analysis to find out exactly what kind of stones she had. But my vet, was leaning toward calcium oxalate or calcium phosphate? These are the type that CANNOT be dissolved with a prescription diet. Your vet must think the same thing, otherwise I am sure they would try to dissolve them first before jumping to surgery. One thing is for sure, that we won't know definatley and you won't either..until the stones are analyzed. As far as the surgery goes, yes it is major, but also very common. Like I said, Bitsy had a rough first night, but woke up the next morning much better. It will only be 1 week on Tuesday and I would never have known she just had major surgery the way she has been zipping through the backyard!! I hope it will be just as easy for you pup! Best of luck, and please let me know if you have the same issues AFTER the surgery as far as the incontinence. |
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Oh, thank you very much. |
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I have no advice, but you've come to the right place for it!! There's lots of experts here and they'll guide you. I hope your lil pup gets better soon and the surgery goes well. |
oh thanks so much. |
1 Attachment(s) I don't want to scare you, but here's a pic of katie's stones. She's a worse case scenario. Basically the vet said if she didn't get medical attention soon she would have died. Best thing is to get this taken care of right away. Last time she was at the vet for the suspected uti, did they do bloodwork at all? I'm assuming they usually just do bloodwork before surgeries, but just wondering how her levels are. |
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I did not let them do bloodwork b/c I did not want her to be admitted to that particular hospital. They do not have nurses there at night, so I was not going to let her have a major op without proper aftercare. |
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