Here is a message about a pet that has been struggling over and over to recover from repeated heart attacks along with edema of the lungs.
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~Inquiry and message of June 23, 2006~
[Breed of dog]
Mixed
[Pet's age]
13 years
[Pet's gender]
Female
[The problem]
She began having (rather severe) breathing difficulty in February of this year, due to edema in her lungs. I took her to a well-known hospital with excellent equipment, more than an hour's drive away. She was admitted to the hospital and fortunately pulled through.
It came out at that time that her heart was in quite bad condition, and since then I have been giving her Relete pills every day.
After that, most of the water in her lungs disappeared; and, as all the tests she has had, including Xrays and ultrasound scans, indicate that her heart disease itself is not very advanced, I was feeling relieved, when ...
On May 23, she had a seizure and collapsed--suddenly cried out and fainted, voiding urine. Since then, she has had many seizures; on the worst days, she might have as many as five, and it is taking longer and longer for her to recover from them.
Normally she just has palpitations, but during a seizure, her heart becomes very weak, so weak that her pulse can barely be felt/is almost undetectable.
I worry that this might be a side effect of her medicine, but I can't be sure.
There isn't any pet hospital nearby that I can trust, and because it is stressful for her to go so far to the hospital that has been seeing her since February, I haven't taken her there since she first collapsed.
Anyway, I am thinking of giving her Pinfenon in the hopes that she will be even just a little more comfortable; but I am concerned about how to give it to her. The hospital has always made her pills into a powder for me.
Please let me know if you have any good ideas about how to give her the Pinfenon.
We don't have any children, and this dog is just like a child to us. We want to do all we can for her.
I would appreciate your continued assistance.
~Message of August 9, 2006~
Since May, she has had frequent seizures, probably due to a mitral valve insufficiency. Since finishing her first bottle of Pinfenon, the number of seizures has gone down slightly, but in the past two weeks or so, she has been fainting every day.
I was discouraged and wondering if Pinfenon were not going to work for our dog, but decided not to be hasty, but to keep on with it.
I am giving her Pinfenon every day, praying that she will have fewer bad days.
At present I have just one bottle left, so would you please send my next order of Pinfenon soon?