Question about heart murmurs

[catmandu]

Bo Bo is at least 13, and now has to go in twice a year as she has a slightly enlarged heart.This has to be watched and she has to have her blood sugar monitored too as shes borderline diabetic too.
We are sending prayers for Our Dear Friend Neko, and pray that she will be well.


My little Patients Bo Bo and Precious in the spare room.
The Precious Ouchie ear's almost normal now.

[wolflady]

This thread really hit home for me. My vet discovered a heart murmur in Marius during one of his annual checkups a couple of years ago. He has a grade 3 murmur, however he is not on any medication. The vet told me to watch him, and if he continues to act like he normally does, that we don't need to do anything at this point. He did get an echocardiogram, and I was told to come in a year later for a follow up echo, which I did; and my vet listened to Marius's heart and said it was the same, so no need to do it again. I'll be checking again soon to see if we need to do another echo. I just don't want it to get worse. Marius is so old now (guessing around 12, as I found him about 10 years ago, and he was estimated to be around 2 at that time).

I hope everything is ok with Neko. As long as she's acting her normal self, that is a good thing

**hugs**

[Catlady711]

Dusty was found to have a very slight heart murmer when she was 7 years old (she's 16 now). The only reason they found it was that she had pneumonia and they were doing alot of testing on her. She's never had medications for it, and we've checked her at work with the EKG and it just shows up occasionally after a few minutes. Every check up (3 times a year) the vet listens to her for quite a while and it's never gotten any worse. He said if I hadn't said something, he'd probably never have even caught it without some luck.

On the human front, I have an uncle that's had a mild heart murmer since he was a child and he has never needed meds for it either.

If your vet recommends testing I'd maybe think of giving it a try at least once to see how severe the murmer is and go from there.