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Originally Posted by Longblades
MaxaLisa, was this the recessed vulva? Some Vets do still urge surgery for a recessed vulva. But a heat (season) will often fix it on it's own.
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Longblades, no, it wasn't recessed, which is why I didn't think there was anything weird wrong, just a persistent infection. But I guess a "sliver" of skin is somewhere inside which makes it so the urine is never completely emptied. I don't know the details exactly. With Jazz though, she tended to have high white blood cell counts, but we couldn't find the bacteria, but she had all the symptoms and it responded to cipro. Also responded to d-mannose, though she couldn't tolerate that.
I was skeptical when the internal medicine guy mention this was a possibility, mostly because it was an expensive surgery
But it solved the problem.
Young dogs shouldn't have that many urinary problems, so I would look to something deeper, if the vulva isn't recessed.