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glenolam
Lovin' The Homestead
Just wanted to post a quick update - I just got off the phone with the vet (who is now getting a ticket for talking on her cell phone while driving!!!)
She said that 'vein' could be a few things - an infection in the mammory glands, which is causing inflammation, or CL spreading. She still really doesn't feel like this is CL because there are no other lumps anywhere other than her udder and, while the lymphnodes on either side of her neck are a bit large, they're not large like she would normally see with CL. That and the fact that these lumps aren't increasing (or decreasing) in size.
I ran CAE by her to see what she thought. April's been tested for those 2 diseases before and showed negative (although that doesn't always mean negative), but she's got some of the signs CAE presents, like swollen knees. But, the vet said CAE wouldn't cause her to loose weight first before getting arthritis (which she doesn't have) so she doesn't even want to test her for that.
I'm to put her on penicillian for 7 days and see if that helps at all too.
We agreed that if she doesn't start getting better in 2 or 3 weeks its either find another home where someone wants to invest time and money into a chronic sick goat or put her down. You'd think that after months of special treatments, wormers, antibiotics, probios, B complex she'd look better, which, weight wise she's put on a few pounds, but then something else presents itself.
ETA - I realize that she's been on so much stuff that her immune system is pretty much shot, which I think is also contributing to this nastiness. But in all the weeks where she was off dewormers or antibiotics I was supplementing her with B Complex, probios and good loose minerals hoping it'd at least give her a shot at getting better. Who knows.
She said that 'vein' could be a few things - an infection in the mammory glands, which is causing inflammation, or CL spreading. She still really doesn't feel like this is CL because there are no other lumps anywhere other than her udder and, while the lymphnodes on either side of her neck are a bit large, they're not large like she would normally see with CL. That and the fact that these lumps aren't increasing (or decreasing) in size.
I ran CAE by her to see what she thought. April's been tested for those 2 diseases before and showed negative (although that doesn't always mean negative), but she's got some of the signs CAE presents, like swollen knees. But, the vet said CAE wouldn't cause her to loose weight first before getting arthritis (which she doesn't have) so she doesn't even want to test her for that.
I'm to put her on penicillian for 7 days and see if that helps at all too.
We agreed that if she doesn't start getting better in 2 or 3 weeks its either find another home where someone wants to invest time and money into a chronic sick goat or put her down. You'd think that after months of special treatments, wormers, antibiotics, probios, B complex she'd look better, which, weight wise she's put on a few pounds, but then something else presents itself.
ETA - I realize that she's been on so much stuff that her immune system is pretty much shot, which I think is also contributing to this nastiness. But in all the weeks where she was off dewormers or antibiotics I was supplementing her with B Complex, probios and good loose minerals hoping it'd at least give her a shot at getting better. Who knows.
And you. That bites.
