How long before she felt better? How old did she become?

Hey scarlett .. mine has same issue at 10 years of age .. any coughing solutions?

I did Health testing on my doberman had an echocardiogram as a routine screening. Found out she is what they call preclinical DCM. My vet wants $230 a month for medication to try to stop the enlarging that is bound to begin pretty soon. I can't afford that but I do live in Texas so I have found that Texas A&M veterinary school is doing research on preclinical DCM, and I go January 6th for her preliminary exam to see if she qualifies for the genetic tests they want to do where they split genes insert them into her heart and hopefully change the genetic structure of the heart maybe this will cure it maybe it won't maybe it'll buy time for her they don't know she's only the third dog they wanted to do this research on but if it helps everybody else's dog in the future I'm willing to try. If I sit back and do nothing and just let her live the course of her life the vet said she has an average of two years left going by what her echocardiogram look like. That would make her 9 and that is still not the average lifespan for a doberman of 10 and 1/2 years. So I'm willing to give this a try maybe it'll help one of your dogs

@dobie gal What a great thing to do. I hope all goes well. Good luck!

Caroline thank you for mentioning this.

How is she doing?

How is your dog doing? Did the raw food diet help?

Thank you Regina and Jenny for asking after my maltese poodle with congestive heart failure. She was doing really well until New Year's Eve 2018. Took her to the vet the next day and she was put on a Frusemide drip to clear the fluid from her lungs. Her meds have been increased but the coughing is still really bad and she sleeps most of the day. The vet told me on Feb 10 she only has approx 2 months left and wont be able to breathe properly. (I watched my mother die struggling to breathe so I'm not letting my dog go through that.) I'm devastated as I thought she might last at least another 6 months. I have to go away for a family wedding in early May and will probably have to have her put down before the end of April. I'm just taking it one day at a time, trying to enjoy the time I have left with her.

Just want to add, I will NOT have my dog put down so I can go away to the wedding. The only reason to have a pet euthanized is for the sake of the dog's comfort and wellbeing ie. to eliminate suffering. Every dog lover knows that our dogs' welfare is paramount to us. We love them as if they are our children. All the best to anyone else dealing with this illness in your dog. It's not easy watching them decline and becoming so unwell.

Sharyn Thomas so did you catch the heart failure early on? I know there is no cure, but my maltipoo has CHF but I had no idea until the day he died. He was 9 years old turning 10 this year. I keep blaming myself because I think that if I caught it sooner, he would’ve live much longer. But from your story, it seemed like dogs with CHF don’t live very long even after treatments.

pro BNP test

so tragic. :( i'm so sorry for your loss. this is good info for others, such as myself, currently going thru the first dx of this. my baby girl has other symptoms as well. i cannot afford all the tests they want to run. but i had a horrible vet before, that left her with two infected ears, causing hearing loss, for over 8mo! told me the panting and stuff was all in my head. called me a hypochondriac. now i find out this is why - murmur. finding a good vet is harder than it should be. there seems to be nothing you can do. thank you for sharing.

Sorry for your loss of Bell but thank you for warning us! Truly a decent vet with reasonable prices is hard to find these days...

Hows she. And how many years you think vets fking confuse me

Autumn Ruark ask your vet about payment programs there are several ones out there,, theyhave info,, recommend take to vet er,, they arent as exp as you think, i was surprised i also get my dogs heart pills from walmart petrx

Pandora E He dead

My dog Boo Boo passed three weeks ago he was over 18 years old had heart problems, dementia, collapsed trachea, severe dental problems, suffered a stroke three years ago. Ive only had him for the last 6 years and like you I don’t have the money to take him for all the expensive diagnostics. I did some research and tried giving him just a bit of hawthorn berry with his food I don’t think it helped at all I feel guilty because if I had my life together I could have maybe got some professional help for him. It hurts me so much but then this dog would have been euthanized when I got him 6 years ago because they were going to send him to the pound. He wasn’t really getting much out of life in the last six months and struggled to walk. He had a stroke and died in my arms. The last three weeks my chest hurts so bad and I feel so empty.

my dog does that too. she's 17

Yes. Panting for no reason, heat, stress, etc, is usually a symptom of heart disease. I'm sorry.

All of my puppies that I breed are spoon-fed canned puppy food as a supplement to their meals. It actually accomplishes a few things. It teaches them to sit and wait quietly because they don't get their spoonful of canned food until they're sitting quietly, and it's also a Dandy way to hide medicine when they get older. If you have a can of food and you give them a couple spoonfuls just spoon feed him like a spoon feed any baby here folks, then when they get older or need medicine for some reason you just slip it on the bottom part of the spoon scoop up a little puppy food in it and spoon feed it to him and they don't even know the medicines in there. I had not spoon-fed my male Doberman since he was a puppy, his sister's supposed to take thyroid medicine so in the morning first thing I get my canned food and I put it on a butter knife that has no serrated edge, and I give all five dogs a bite of canned food and the two that are on thyroid meds I just plucked a little pills on top of their dog food and it works great I've got one that wouldn't take any kind of medicine if you tried to hide it in food but they know this is not a pill this is just a treat. for some reason this works better than trying to hide the pill and I've tried pimento cheese spread cream cheese peanut butter wrapping it up in a piece of Velveeta I've tried rolling it and hamburger balls and one dog can get it out of everything I tried but when I put it on top of that canned puppy food and feed her put it on the knife , she takes it like it's nothing. Just be sure you use one of those big table knives that really don't have a real cutting blade

Randy Johnson i’ll try that, thanks!

wow. how is he doing now? you posted this 3mo ago. you're an amazing person for caring for a rescue. thank you!

Via L. Hey, I'm so sorry for what you went or going through. I just recently put my puppy down. due to this problem.

It is curable no? I am very scared for my dog's DCM. PLZ rply..

Mines passed at 4 months. ❤️‍🩹

There is a COMPOUNDING pharmacy that makes a compound for pimobendan. It's over half of what vedmedin is. Google compounding veterinary pharmacy. I THINK it's called rainbow?????

Also try Hawthorne tincture you get at a vitamin store. That's an herbal remedy.

Same my dog he's gonna be 12 this month 😥