| PROSTATE PROBLEMS (?)
I HAVE AN 8 YR OLD ROTT WHO IN THE LAST 6 MOS OR SO HAS HAD WHAT SEEMS TO BE A RECURRENT PROSTATE INFECTIONS. AS IN MEN I SEE HIM TRY TO GO TO THE RESTROOM WITH NO RESULTS. THEN ONE DAY I NOTICED SOME LEAKAGE, WHICH AT FIRST SEEMED TO BE URINE, THEN IT BECAME THICKER AND NOW AT TIMES IT SEEMS TO HAVE BLOOD IN IT. WE TOOK HIM TO THE VET AND OF COURSE HIS FIRST SUGGESTION WAS TO NEUTER HIM. WE DID THAT IN MAY AND FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS HE HAD NO PROBLEMS. BUT WITHIN THE LAST WEEK EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE RETURNING. WHEN HE WAS NEUTERED THE DOCTOR DID AN ULTRASOUND OF HIS BLADDER AND FOUND NO TUMORS OR POLYPS. HE HAS HAD EXTENSIVE BLOOD WORK, AT LEAST 3 URINE CULTURES AND THEY FIND NOTHING, YET THE PROBLEM DOESN'T GO AWAY. THE VET TOLD US THAT THE PROSTATE SHRINKS UP TO ALMOST NOTHING WHEN A DOG IS NEUTERED, BUT NOTHING ELSE IS SHOWING ANY PROBLEMS. I WORK IN THE MEDICAL FIELD AND KNOW ALL THE SIGNS OF BPH IN MEN AND AM SEEING THEM IN MY ROTT. BUT THE VET ACTS LIKE I'M CRAZY AND THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY. IF IT WAS CANCER WOULD THE WBC NOT BE HIGH AS IT IS IN HUMANS? I AM AT A LOSS AND DON'T WANT TO KEEP PUTTING HIM ON HIGH DOSE ANTIBIOTICS IF IT IS NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM. WE LIVE IN TEXAS WHERE IT HAS OF COURSE BEEN 110 DEGREES FOR THE LAST 2 MONTHS AND I CAN'T EVEN BRING HIM IN FROM THE HEAT WITH THIS GOING ON. IF ANYONE HAS HEARD OF THIS OR CAN TO ME WHO TO CONTACT PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
OH YEAH, WHEN HE IS ON ANTIBIOTICS THE PROBLEM PRETTY MUCH STOPS. AT LEAST IT IS NO
WHERE NEAR AS BAD.
THANKS!  | 
08-29-1999, 04:47 PM
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