Lyme's Disease

[Eric Moreira]

Hello everyone, this post is in regards to my neighbors 7 year old female Yellow Lab. She was diagnosed with Lyme's disease about 6 months ago and has been on some meds since then. She has been having good days and bad days, on the good days she is happy to play with our Fozzie. My neighbor Kathie took her to her vet 2 days ago and they said that if Lady's (the lab) something count, not sure what they were counting, was higher than 30 she would have to make a decision to keep her or send her to the Rainbow Bridge! Now, I am no vet but my family dog, still kicking at 15 years old, has Lyme's disease and has had it for 5+ years.

Does anyone know about it? Maybe there are other remedies to try? I can't imagine giving up just because a vet said so, it's like giving up without getting other opinions!

Thanks,

Eric

[Grace Erick]

Okay, I'm not vet either, but I can read an article or articles and do some comparisons. From what I have read on lyme's disease in dogs is that it is curable. I do not think it is curable in humans. It lingers on causing a multitude of problems, but that is not the case for dogs.

I am giving you a link which is one of many articles you will find if you dog a google search on: lyme's disease dogs. It does say a dog can be reinfected. Perhaps that is why the dog is not better. I have never read that putting a dog down was an option for any reason.

Please have your friend do some internet searches to get an overall opinion from various people. Then I would take my dog to another vet!!!

http://www.petcaretips.net/lyme_disease_pets.ht ml

Good luck!

[Grace Erick]

By the way Eric, you are a good friend to help out your friend with the dog's problem :D

[Grace Erick]

Eric, one more thing, tell your friend not to be intimidated or feel awkward about telling the vet that you want a second opinion AND, you want your dog's file or a copy of the test results from bloodwork etc. This may save the new vet from redoing bloodwork, maybe.

[Eric Moreira]

Thank you for the link! I have been reading as much as I can on the internet but I figured if anyone could provide me with insight all the better! Such is the beauty of forums:)

I can't stand to see dogs get the rotten end of the stick and if I can do something about it then all the better :D

[Grace Erick]

Eric, you are a beautiful human being and your dog is real cute too :D

It's unfortunate that you can't always place 100% faith in your vet. So many like to build up bills with unneeded tests or vaccinations or like my vet that wanted to do bloodwork on my chi for heartworms at $55 for the test not including the meds which can be fatal or have many side effects and I have no heartworm problem where I live! I am so glad I found that out in time. I just decided to look up the info on the net and found maps showing where there is heartworm in the U.S.

I am not a person who cares for material things, so my greatest wish would be to find a vet that is caring and not self-motivated by greed. Also, I posted an article on another site about "Why do vets always recommend Science Diet"? Companies come in and sell vets stuff where they can make a bigger profit margin whether it's food or heartworm medicine or flea and tick medicine. Science Diet is not a good food, and their dietary foods have known carcinogens in them which SD says are at a safe level in their dietary foods, which tells you these preservatives really are cancerous. There hard food has too much rice and corn anyway.

I don't mean to say that all vets are bloodsuckers, but you have to be careful and doublecheck them as you would your own physician that gives you meds or wants to operate on you.

[Robert]

Hi everyone last year my Sweet litttle girl Allie she was 11, had lyme disease poor girl was having seisures thats when i found out. she was fine 4 months later. (my vet did a wonderful job) 2 months later she devloped cancer in her back leg.I would like to think that lyme diease causes more damage than we think. If my vet wants to do blood work for what ever reason so be. The ticks that cary the diease are more prevelent in certain areas. Get a second opione find somone you feel good about an vacanate your pet Good luck.

[Sam Aiden]

You can treat this homeopathically with a Lyme Vaccine, that and a few other remedies probably would make a big difference in my humble opinion. I do vaccines for the USA and we include this in the mix. It can be done as a single remedy and it's worth considering if you wish to try homeopathy. It can't hurt that's for sure. At the end of the day this is your dog and you pay the bills, so you question your vets as much as you need to, and if you want copies of medical records or blood tests they should give them to you. I hope you get things sorted anyway. Good Luck.