my heart failure sow fudge hasnt been doing well with her breathing, chest full of fluid and, what looked like, no response to max dose diuretics- it seemed there was nothing i could do for her but care for her best i could until it was time.
Her first bottle of diuretics was 40mg/5ml, which is 8mg/ml, and the dose was up to 0.5ml every 8 hours (4mg). She has been on her second bottle for nearly a MONTH and for some reason i woke during the night and checked the second bottle iv been using (no idea why), only to find to much horror, 0.5ml up to 3 times daily, of a 20MG/5ML SOLUTION! Half the concentration of what she should have gotten! So along my girls been getting 2mg of frusemide (the losest dose) whilst shes been struggling to breathe and iv been breaking my heart thinking theres nothing else i could do!
I called the vets first thing to be told it was a labelling error, and when i insisted they double check, it turns out i was right- shes been on half a ml of a 4mg/ml solution for the past month and had terrible breathing when she should have been on 0.5ml of 8mg solution , which she was given the first time.
I was SO close to having her put to sleep yesterday, and asked the vet on the phone if they realised what that could have done to me and the regret i would have to have lived with if i'd gone through with it then found out?!
Anger/tears been happening today!
Her first bottle of diuretics was 40mg/5ml, which is 8mg/ml, and the dose was up to 0.5ml every 8 hours (4mg). She has been on her second bottle for nearly a MONTH and for some reason i woke during the night and checked the second bottle iv been using (no idea why), only to find to much horror, 0.5ml up to 3 times daily, of a 20MG/5ML SOLUTION! Half the concentration of what she should have gotten! So along my girls been getting 2mg of frusemide (the losest dose) whilst shes been struggling to breathe and iv been breaking my heart thinking theres nothing else i could do!
I called the vets first thing to be told it was a labelling error, and when i insisted they double check, it turns out i was right- shes been on half a ml of a 4mg/ml solution for the past month and had terrible breathing when she should have been on 0.5ml of 8mg solution , which she was given the first time.
I was SO close to having her put to sleep yesterday, and asked the vet on the phone if they realised what that could have done to me and the regret i would have to have lived with if i'd gone through with it then found out?!
Anger/tears been happening today!
as sport billy said dont dwell on what could have happened you have enough going on to worry about the extra stress, i'm just so glad you spotted it. Hopefully now her breathing will improve again & everything else will slot into place, improving too 
& a big ol' bear hug for you too 
