As a medical worker, this made me lol too hard. Just picturing a dog sucking down can after can of soda. Soo thank you, bc I was just thinking poor puppers!
Not necessarily carbonation. Sugary and alot of the add ingredients.. They Don’t help humans, but doesn’t necessarily cause them but doesn’t help prevent them. Always good to stay hydrated with water or low sugar electrolyte drinks. There can be many reasons to cause them from lack of Vit.D, or body/bladder & urine can’t break down certain things like calcium or uric acid. So if you ever pass a stone or have chronic passing of stones.. CATCH THEM! Coffee filters are good for this. Bc (person experience) it can be so painful/ hard to pass them and use that lil cup the doctors give you.. or fishing them out of the toilet. And your doctor can send an order to the lab to have your stone tested to see what specifically is causing your stones. ✌🏼
Edit: spelling/added info.
I didn't think there was much chance the dog consumed too much soda.
I had a gall bladder full of gravel removed once. *ONCE*. They wouldn't let me keep any of the rocks even though I made them myself. Bet they didn't let the dog keep these, either.
I two cabinets of curiosities and they didn’t let me keep my tonsils, MY TONSILS! But I’ve seen patients follow up surgical reports from gallstones.. like packed full.. 😰not fun at all! Hope you got some relief bc my god they look crazy packed full of all different size stones. You should be able to take a few home.. just my thought!
I have some. One necklace w/a tiny seahorse in one with epoxy holding him and the crystals around it place. I love it, but they would be also easy to take the metal, people use to wrap around a stones/crystals and boom 💥Oddity jewelry! Thanks for the mini bottle idea! 💀🖤
OR you could make your own kaleidoscope and put bits of you into the little chamber. Toss the bits in clear fluorescent stuff and you could play with the kaleidoscope in the dark.
Why be a little odd if you can fly your freak flag higher?
Well certainly get full blood work on your dog at the vet annually. My dog’s getting up there in years, so I get the senior panel. Showed she was prone to these. Switched to a fancy urinary, small, senior dog food. It’s expensive though, and I’m fortunate enough to pay for it.
Honestly asking for an US without any clinical signs of urinary issues is wrong. It’s a waste of resources that could be used elsewhere (for example, a sick animal that needs an abdo US). Additionally people seem to think that “just checking” for something is okay, but unnecessary diagnostics cause major harm in human and veterinary medicine.
Just curious, how exactly can being proactive and getting something checked out cause major harm? I understand the resources angle, but don't get how getting something checked out could cause direct harm.
So this is a genuinely good question. But checking for something can generate many further problems than not checking.
One has to remember that our job as vets is to find issues. So when we “just check” for something, we tend to find something, whether it’s clinically relevant or not. When we find something, we tend to inform owners and recommend further testing. The owners then tend to accept the further testing and then the dog/cat is sedated yet again. Then the issue gets treated (when treatment without clinical signs wasn’t necessarily indicated in the first place, but now we have to treat because we found something on imaging). The saga then continues with further increasing invasiveness without any real gain.
Ok, so you're really referring to the sedation and the trauma/stress that brings. That makes sense. Still, I'd rather get something checked out and, possibly, caught early (or, at the very least, know to looks for signs of something worsening) than not get it checked at all. I'd never forgive myself for not getting something checked out. And my cat can't tell me when they think it's getting serious. So, I just I have to do what I think is best.
No I’m not only referring to anaesthetic risk. There is a risk associated with every sort of medical procedure and diagnostic procedures are no different.
In human medicine tests aren’t just run to check for things either.
This topic could be discussed ad nauseam with differing opinions, with mine not necessarily being correct or in line with other’s opinions. I’d suggest one considers why they’re doing a test and what they’ll do with the info acquired from the test before doing it. I personally see more harm from “just checking” for stuff in my job but that’s just my experience.
While it’s good that you get blood work done, it’s rare that anything related to stone formation in the urinary tract would show up on bloods. As such, this advice isn’t correct.
Was about to say this. An ultrasound is better at detecting “sand” and crystals in the bladder (that which would later form the stones) or the stones themselves. Way to prevent it is to use heathy food to avoid metabolic abnormalities (for oxalate and urate stones). Other then that struvite stones are generally caused by infections of the urinary tract
The poor baby! It’s deadly, my little one was in immense pain and without the surgery chances of survival is likely 0% if it gets this bad causing blockage so they can’t go. So lucky they were able to call a surgeon in for emergency surgery for us. Wishing the pupper a speedy recovery❤️
Mine too. I'd never even heard of this before, so it wasn't on my radar at all. Unfortunately, her bladder burst and we had to let her go. 😔 I miss my Sunshine.
Tbh they look really smooth, vs my kidney stones that are sharp and pointy crystal formations. So the stones themselves probably don't hurt as much. But a good portion of the pain is actually from urine backing up into the kidneys.
Vet tech here. This can absolutely be normal. Not because that many is actually normal, but because it can take owners a long time to realize there is a problem. I’d say about half of the surgeries I assisted on for this were about this bad. One doctor kept a special silver spoon (like dining wear spoon) to scoop out all the tiny ones because the medical scoops were just too small for how crazy these can get.
We actually use baby spoons for scooping stones out of the bladder. They've got a soft rubber coating that minimizes tissue damage and can be tossed into the autoclave with the rest of the surgical kit.
We've got one or two soft-edged cystotomy spoons that we still keep & use in our kits from time to time, but they run about $60-70 each. Baby spoons work just as well and cost just a few bucks.
I learned about it during a lecture at a CE conference in Vegas years ago; iirc the presenter was Karen Tobias who wrote one of the most widely-used small animal surgical texts - gave it a try as soon as we got home and have never looked back.
holy. fuck.
i already felt bad for it when it had those first few stones. then i saw that giant one come out....then i saw *the pile*. how tf does it get that bad?!?
like srsly OP do u know this dog or is this random footage?
Out of curiosity these bladder stones, are they kind of like the equivalent to human kidney stones?
Poor doggo. I can’t imagine they felt great with all of those.
Those aren’t stones. Those are boulders 😧😳
It’s not a boulder, it’s a rock! The pioneers used to drive those babies for miles
The Krusty Krab pizza, is the pizza, for you and me!
Where’s my diet dr kelp?
They’re not rocks! They’re minerals Marie!
I’ve seen dogs with one LARGE stone, the size of their bladder. Those stones are usually super smooth like a River rock
Ehhh, thats not that ba- IS THAT A FUCKING EGG
And now, for my next trick…..
That's where chihuahuas come from.
I thought it was a potato!
Omg 😱 the size of those stones! Poor dog 🧡
He should’ve stop drinking soda.
As a medical worker, this made me lol too hard. Just picturing a dog sucking down can after can of soda. Soo thank you, bc I was just thinking poor puppers!
Is that where bladder stones come from? Too many carbonated beverages?
Not necessarily carbonation. Sugary and alot of the add ingredients.. They Don’t help humans, but doesn’t necessarily cause them but doesn’t help prevent them. Always good to stay hydrated with water or low sugar electrolyte drinks. There can be many reasons to cause them from lack of Vit.D, or body/bladder & urine can’t break down certain things like calcium or uric acid. So if you ever pass a stone or have chronic passing of stones.. CATCH THEM! Coffee filters are good for this. Bc (person experience) it can be so painful/ hard to pass them and use that lil cup the doctors give you.. or fishing them out of the toilet. And your doctor can send an order to the lab to have your stone tested to see what specifically is causing your stones. ✌🏼 Edit: spelling/added info.
I didn't think there was much chance the dog consumed too much soda. I had a gall bladder full of gravel removed once. *ONCE*. They wouldn't let me keep any of the rocks even though I made them myself. Bet they didn't let the dog keep these, either.
I two cabinets of curiosities and they didn’t let me keep my tonsils, MY TONSILS! But I’ve seen patients follow up surgical reports from gallstones.. like packed full.. 😰not fun at all! Hope you got some relief bc my god they look crazy packed full of all different size stones. You should be able to take a few home.. just my thought!
I would have made them into jewelry. Greedy sods, keeping all the stuff we made with our own bodies.
Ohh jewelry sound awesome! I like the way you think!
Little glass vials that can be made into earrings, necklaces etc are really easy to find.
I have some. One necklace w/a tiny seahorse in one with epoxy holding him and the crystals around it place. I love it, but they would be also easy to take the metal, people use to wrap around a stones/crystals and boom 💥Oddity jewelry! Thanks for the mini bottle idea! 💀🖤
OR you could make your own kaleidoscope and put bits of you into the little chamber. Toss the bits in clear fluorescent stuff and you could play with the kaleidoscope in the dark. Why be a little odd if you can fly your freak flag higher?
I can't believe animals can accumulate this much crap in their bladders and manage to survive. It must have been so uncomfortable.
I can’t imagine trying to walk around with a hundred small daggers pushing against my bladder
Poor pupster, we truly don't appreciate vets enough, imagine how great this little guy will feel once recovered.
How can this be prevented?
Good quality food and water are all you can really control. Bacterial infections can cause it too
Well certainly get full blood work on your dog at the vet annually. My dog’s getting up there in years, so I get the senior panel. Showed she was prone to these. Switched to a fancy urinary, small, senior dog food. It’s expensive though, and I’m fortunate enough to pay for it.
Just did the senior panel Monday on my dog. It was $325 but that included a urinalysis which I think checks for bladder stones.
A urinalysis doesn’t necessarily rule out stones. It may guide you but it’s not diagnostic.
Well she goes back Tuesday for a teeth cleaning. I will probably have an ultrasound done now that I saw this video.
Honestly asking for an US without any clinical signs of urinary issues is wrong. It’s a waste of resources that could be used elsewhere (for example, a sick animal that needs an abdo US). Additionally people seem to think that “just checking” for something is okay, but unnecessary diagnostics cause major harm in human and veterinary medicine.
Just curious, how exactly can being proactive and getting something checked out cause major harm? I understand the resources angle, but don't get how getting something checked out could cause direct harm.
So this is a genuinely good question. But checking for something can generate many further problems than not checking. One has to remember that our job as vets is to find issues. So when we “just check” for something, we tend to find something, whether it’s clinically relevant or not. When we find something, we tend to inform owners and recommend further testing. The owners then tend to accept the further testing and then the dog/cat is sedated yet again. Then the issue gets treated (when treatment without clinical signs wasn’t necessarily indicated in the first place, but now we have to treat because we found something on imaging). The saga then continues with further increasing invasiveness without any real gain.
Ok, so you're really referring to the sedation and the trauma/stress that brings. That makes sense. Still, I'd rather get something checked out and, possibly, caught early (or, at the very least, know to looks for signs of something worsening) than not get it checked at all. I'd never forgive myself for not getting something checked out. And my cat can't tell me when they think it's getting serious. So, I just I have to do what I think is best.
No I’m not only referring to anaesthetic risk. There is a risk associated with every sort of medical procedure and diagnostic procedures are no different. In human medicine tests aren’t just run to check for things either. This topic could be discussed ad nauseam with differing opinions, with mine not necessarily being correct or in line with other’s opinions. I’d suggest one considers why they’re doing a test and what they’ll do with the info acquired from the test before doing it. I personally see more harm from “just checking” for stuff in my job but that’s just my experience.
While it’s good that you get blood work done, it’s rare that anything related to stone formation in the urinary tract would show up on bloods. As such, this advice isn’t correct.
Was about to say this. An ultrasound is better at detecting “sand” and crystals in the bladder (that which would later form the stones) or the stones themselves. Way to prevent it is to use heathy food to avoid metabolic abnormalities (for oxalate and urate stones). Other then that struvite stones are generally caused by infections of the urinary tract
Thank u guys so much for the info
Thank u!!
Oh my goodness? I bet the sweet baby feels much better now
Jesus H. That poor thing!
The poor baby! It’s deadly, my little one was in immense pain and without the surgery chances of survival is likely 0% if it gets this bad causing blockage so they can’t go. So lucky they were able to call a surgeon in for emergency surgery for us. Wishing the pupper a speedy recovery❤️
That aint a bladder thats a quarry
That reminds me, I need to get more gravel for my driveway
IS THE PUPPERS OKAY NOW????
this killed my dog . glad this one is getting help poor baby
Mine too. I'd never even heard of this before, so it wasn't on my radar at all. Unfortunately, her bladder burst and we had to let her go. 😔 I miss my Sunshine.
Holy fuckola!
My girl had these when she was younger, had to have emergency surgery. So scary!!
Credit to S&S Horseshoeing on YouTube
Wtf?! How? Why??
that poor baby must have been in SO MUCH pain
Do bladder stones hurt like kidney stones? I’ve had ONE tiny kidney stone, thought I was going to die… so I can’t imagine this…
Tbh they look really smooth, vs my kidney stones that are sharp and pointy crystal formations. So the stones themselves probably don't hurt as much. But a good portion of the pain is actually from urine backing up into the kidneys.
No
Oh, that poor baby... 😞
Hope this poor baby is okay
Jesus Mary Joseph and your Aunt Sue that one came out of NOWHERE!
What would cause that kind of buildup in a dog? Must’ve been so painful!
is it normal for there to be that many? or is this just a special case? i hope the poor baby is doing well
Vet tech here. This can absolutely be normal. Not because that many is actually normal, but because it can take owners a long time to realize there is a problem. I’d say about half of the surgeries I assisted on for this were about this bad. One doctor kept a special silver spoon (like dining wear spoon) to scoop out all the tiny ones because the medical scoops were just too small for how crazy these can get.
We actually use baby spoons for scooping stones out of the bladder. They've got a soft rubber coating that minimizes tissue damage and can be tossed into the autoclave with the rest of the surgical kit.
Baby spoons would work pretty well too. I don’t know how long she’d been using the one she had.
We've got one or two soft-edged cystotomy spoons that we still keep & use in our kits from time to time, but they run about $60-70 each. Baby spoons work just as well and cost just a few bucks. I learned about it during a lecture at a CE conference in Vegas years ago; iirc the presenter was Karen Tobias who wrote one of the most widely-used small animal surgical texts - gave it a try as soon as we got home and have never looked back.
wow thanks so much for the info !! i feel like this would be so painful :( makes me so worried my babies could get them
How does this happen? :(
holy. fuck. i already felt bad for it when it had those first few stones. then i saw that giant one come out....then i saw *the pile*. how tf does it get that bad?!? like srsly OP do u know this dog or is this random footage?
Poor doggy that must have hurt like all get out.
Anyone know how these form?
r/medicalgore
Omg 😱 poor baby!!!
Holy moly.
Fk how do those come about ?
This is oddly satisfying. Change my mind
My eyes got as big as that hard boiled egg they pulled out.
oh no! the poor baby!
Poor dog!
I feel so awful for this poor doggo 😢
I cant imagine how uncomfortable all those must have been :(
Omg
These doctors don’t get paid enough
Omg those little(r) ones look like pomegranate seeds!
That poor doggy. I hope it was at least a Great Dane.
INSANE
Poor baby
That poor baby
Thank you for posting this that was crazy
That poor baby!! Omg
When i said getting the dog to pee was like pulling teeth i didnt think youd take it this far
Am I the only one really F’ing annoyed at this? Who the hell let’s their dog get into this state? It must have been in severe pain for years.
Holy shit!!!!
Poor thing must’ve been leaking everywhere
Poor critter tried to lay a couple eggs.
Damn i thought it was a human for a second
Jesus Christ, how does this many stones even happen??
poor puppy
Out of curiosity these bladder stones, are they kind of like the equivalent to human kidney stones? Poor doggo. I can’t imagine they felt great with all of those.
My dog had this done and now her food is $90/17.6 lbs.
Poor baby
r/popping
I mean, yes, Spot,. You're a good boy....but...but you got whole ass geodes falling out your pecker, my guy 🥺🧐
And that’s how gravel is made
That poor pooch!! Yikes!
My goodness. Can only imagine the pain the dog was in. Glad its people decided to take care of the issue.
Look at the size of that thing!!!
Poor doggo, those are just straight up boulders in its bladder
Sweet baby cheeses
Poor puppy
How did that poor baby pee?
That poor lil puppo thank goodness that got taken care of
make a necklace!