Henrietta has something, might be Lyme or???

She is been doing awesome, looking and acting awesome since last week Saturday - 8 days now off all meds. her urine was clear by last Monday/Tuesday. That is the longest without meds. I'm almost thinking it was or partly was the Nutro Natural choice Lamb & Rice as she has been off that now for almost two weeks.

Monday (tomorrow) we are going to take her to another Vet. I want to run everything by them and see what the say/suggest. I do want to blood test for at least those levels that were off for sure to see where they are now that it is a week later and she is still doing awesome . Those blood results were the morning after she had been on Doxycycline for a few days (and a 5 weeks of it before that) and the Doxycycline was making her vomit every time we gave it to her. her urine was also orange and burnt orange the morning they took the blood for the tests, and that day was her first day of looking like she was feeling 100% in over a week. 8 days now off all meds and looking and acting awesome still. So I'm thinking the levels will be much better now???  hoping anyway.

Blood panels come in groupings.  You don't pay "per result".  Get the same panel run as before (get a copy from the other vet -- in fact call the new vet and ASK THEM to call Dr. Whover (give them his number) so they can compare "apples with apples".  If they can use the same lab (and probably will) it's best -- because you can always get a sampling error -- PARTICULARLY if they run a different lab. 

As I said above -- you don't JUST look at what's 'high' or 'low'.  **not at all**.  The vets also look at the proportion of this result to that one.  The *entire result* is germaine and important. 

You don't want to just get the AST or ALT down -- for example the ALT *plus* phosphorous is an extremely critical relationship and even if the alt is 'high' IF it is in proper balance with the phos then it's a different story.

let the new vet do what will *work*.  Because you want to know if ANY values change and what ones have and have not. 

I would, if it were me, also get a urinalysis run -- particularly since the albumin in the blood is *low* -- you want to see if it's getting in the urine (that's not good) or is she just not processing enough protein. 

Good luck.  I'm not trying to be nasy -- but there are things that some of us, who have experienced very ill dogs, can tell you that you otherwise may not understand. 

Henrietta

So I'm thinking the levels will be much better now???  hoping anyway.

I hope so too. 

I'm glad you are getting another opinion also.  I think it's a really good idea and also a really good idea to get those platelets checked again.  Those can drop and they don't feel sick at all. 

The liver values hopefully were just off because of the medication and will be better now that she is not taking them.

Anyway, good luck!

How'd Henrietta make out at her vet appointment??

Lori