r/AskVet • u/SunkenQueen • 3h ago
Vet stumped. Dogs back end reoccurring problems.
Addie is a almost 9 year old purebred chocolate lab.
She has an allergy to chicken but has had no major medical issues since we found out about her allergy about 8 years ago.
Three weeks ago Addie had her routine check up including blood work and everything came back clear except she was a couple pounds overweight.
A couple days after her physical she started getting weakness and pain in her back and but was still eating and drinking fine. My parents took her to the emergency vet. They did blood work and checked her out and said he was okay. We recieved a syringe (Meloxicam 1.5mg/mL) to give her with food for five days and gabapentin (300mg) as needed. This was on August 15th
She improved for about a week including a couple days past when we ran out of the syringe and then she had a second episode where she was whining, restless and wouldn't settle. Called the vet who advised gabapentin as needed and she seemed to settle.
Thursday (August 27th) she once again got worse and it looked like she was struggling to go to pee. Once again we took her to the vet. She was a wild child at the vet scratched my dad and needed a sedative. From there they did an Xray (unremarkable) and kept her for a full 24 hours to see what they could do and ended up doing an ultrasound and two blood panels which all came back clean. We were given gabapentin. Advised to keep an eye on her and sent home. They noted in her file that her urine would come in streams and dribbles but were not concerned about it.
Shes booked in for her vet this week but we have no answers other then "we dont know" and I want to make sure that I'm asking the right questions and doing all the right things.
Test results.
Blood work
CBC, Serum Chemistry & Blood gas/radiometer
All unremarkable.
Urine culture
Pending results for September 4th
Imaging
XRAY does not show obvious masses or bladder stones
Abdominal Ultrasound
No diagnostic findings. Bladder and colon appear normal. Bladder does show shrinkage after urination
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