I'd just stay on top of it, and if she doesn't start to respond to treatment soon I'd call him and see what he says. I don't think the x-ray was a bad idea at all, but it should be combined with either a cbc or a crop/throat culture to diagnose not only a bacterial infection, but WHAT bacteria to determine what medications to prescribe. That's where I was coming from when I said I didn't understand his diagnosis based on the tests he did. When my birds go for their yearly Well-Birdy checkups my avian vet does a physical exam, basic blood work, fecal smears, and an x-ray. If any of that comes back funky he'll then do a culture and sensitivity and possibly more specific blood work. Again, I'm in central Pennsylvania, so I actually feel pretty good that a well-birdy checkup with basic blood work, fecal smears, and an x-ray only costs me about $200. I will never complain about that again!
The supplements your vet sold you are questionable, and unfortunately a lot of vets do this...Hell, a lot of human doctors do this. This is one of the things that blew my mind during my internship while in graduate school, the doctors all had alliances with certain drug companies and would prescribe medications based on what the drug company they were working with at the time made, not what was the best medication for the patient. I personally had a urologist (I have had chronic kidney stones since I was 18) "prescribe" me a vitamin supplement manufactured by the same drug company that had posters all over his walls...As he was telling me about these vitamins and how they will get rid of the kidney stones I was thrilled because the stones suck! So I was waiting for the prescription and he came back into the exam room with a pamphlet, they weren't prescription vitamins, I had to go online and order them from that drug company directly! For $300 a bottle!!! Yeah right, he then wrote me a prescription for Lortab (brand of hydrocodone, like Vicodin) which I wasn't happy about because he had been writing me scripts for oxycodone (brand name Percocet) because for whatever reason the oxycodone helps with kidney stone pain much, much better than the same dose of hydrocodone does, we had even talked about that at length prior...He tells me he "changed his mind" about oxycodone...OK, that why he also checked the box on the prescription that says "Brand Name Must Be Prescribed", so the pharmacist had to give me the brand name Lortab instead of the generic hydrocodone. I didn't realize he did this until I got to the pharmacy and 30 Lortab cost me $60, while 30 hydrocodone cost me $6...
Veterinarians do the same thing unfortunately, this is why when you walk into a vet's office with your dog, and you see Science Diet food stacked up in a display, the vet then tells you they highly recommend you switch to Science Diet from your dog's current brand...I hate this, doctors willing to sacrifice care or spend people's money that may not have it to spend but they will do it because they just want what is best for their pet. It's just so wrong.
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