Pyometra - very scared and need your positive experiences

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Please share your positive experiences of your dog beating pyometra. My 9 year old cockapoo was diagnosed yesterday morning but they can't operate until tomorrow morning and I'm breaking my heart about her. Any positivity to help us through would be appreciated 😥

I’m assuming she’s at the vets on IV antibiotics? My friends dog had this and was operated on after about 48 hours on antibiotics, and is now fine.

Vet here. I'd call another local clinic and have them operate now/very soon, assuming she's stable. It is quite odd they're waiting 2 days as she could get very sick in this time. The uterus can rupture and toxin build up can cause acute kidney failure.

If they're waiting it's probably an open pyo which is draining (there will be pus if you apply pressure to her nethers) and not as dangerous but still requires prompt surgery. My 10yo went in for an open pyo and was just fine, it will probably be fine if the dog is in decent health 💐

Yes it is open - they gave her a high dose antibiotic injection and pain relief yesterday then sent her home to come back for surgery first thing Monday morning. That is reassuring about your dog - can I ask how soon your vet operated after diagnosis? Thank you x

My lovely Cav (who is no longer with us having died of natural causes a few years ago, at the age of 12), developed pyo and made a fully recovery.

(We had attempted to have her spayed when she was about a year old, but there were complications and the pyo infection came on before the second scheduled attempt could take place).

Our vet wasted no time at all though, and did emergency surgery. I didn’t think it was typically something a vet would wait around with?

Well she's away for her operation this morning. Poor thing. Praying that all is OK 🙏

Hope she’s home with you soon.

Hope your dog is okay, mine was operated on around 36h later and was just moping around. One thing that scared us was after her pyo spay she started spotting a decent amount which I haven't experienced with a regular spay and I thought something had gone wrong during the surgery but it was just blood vessels or something routine like that.

This is good to know - I haven't noticed any spotting though she has been leaking a little urine after she pees but I'm putting that down to just having had major surgery in that area. I can't actually believe the difference in her already. She's getting her appetite back - although will only eat chicken. It's horrifying how much weight she's lost. But she's back to following me around and wagging her tail which is amazing. Your dog must have had open pyometra too then - I hope she made a full recovery. It really is an awful illness. I'm so thankful my girl is over the worse seems to be on the mend. Thanks for the well wishes and advice to all ❤️

My dog had open pyo surgery a week ago , she had some bleeding pale discharge from her incision area and the vet advised this was normal but if it continues for more then a few days I need to take her in, she is on antibiotics as I mithered the vets for them as she wasn't given any after her operation I took her in on the 7th October as she was showing signs of drinking alot and also smelly discharge, try did a scan on her and said it was very small like really minewt and told me to come back the day after for bloods and ultrasound again as I needed to sedate her with some tablets as she's very anxious and loud , I took her back and it was 3 different vet nurses that ultra sounded her again said it's not of concern as it's so small , no bloods no temperature check , just said basically we have no reason to operate right now as it's so small and as she's having false pregnancy could of been that , dispite me saying I hink it's open pyo a few days later I took her back on the Monday as her ear started twitching she had no discharge when I took her back but by the afternoon I asked for emergency appointment again as there was so much discharge coming out all of a sudden and she wasn't herself , the vet checked her vulva and said yes there's definitely some discharge and said it's open pyo we will operate first thing tomorrow morning, more drugs for sedation so I wasnt happy as I told them a week ago that's what she had , then we took her in he following morning after s night of worry and upset with her leaking all over the place and not eating , we arrived at the vet first thing and the vet came our and said i can't do it today I've had a severe migraine all night I'm shaking I wouldn't feel right and it has to be me as there wasn't anymore vets in , i was not happy and my partner was very upset and said she's severely unwell , how can you let this happen why are you the only vet , they advised another night of drugs to dope her up again and I said I want antibiotics, and if anything happens it's on you , another night of worry and no sleep , she had her surgery the next morning the appointment was for 8.45 and we wasn't seen till 9.30 after we said this is ridiculous we haven't even been consulted yet , to which the vet arrived late and then she was taken for her operation.
We went to collect her around 2pm and she was dopey as she would be lay in a cage on blankets so very sad to see her this way she's such a happy beauty of a dog .
That was our experience after her next set of checks we will not be using that vet again.
She has developed a slight bleed from her wound and this has lasted a couple of days a drip , they said this is normal and I said I want some antibiotics and they will see her in few days for a check .
I've attached a photo of her heeling and wondered if they look ok to anyone that's had the same operation for there dog , any advice would be great .