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02-27-2009, 03:30 PM | #1 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Michigan
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| Mystery Illness Some of you may know of the issues I've been having with our 2-year-old, spayed, Biewer Samira. I am writing here because I am looking for anything I can provide to our vet to help find what is wrong with her. Since November she has had random incidents of diarrhea. Most of the time with small amounts of blood, then it is gone a few days later. She was on a Wellness product. About a month ago, it started again but didn't seem to clear up. She went on home cooked food... still diarrhea. About 3 weeks ago, I came home from work and there was blood everywhere in my house. Not diarrhea with blood, it was the consistency and color of ketchup. I honestly thought we were losing her that night. She has had 2 sets of x-rays, 10 days apart looking for "anything and everything". What they could see was that her intestines were severely inflamed...but at the same time, ALL her bloodwork came back normal. I have taken stool samples at least 5 times, they find no parasites. She has lost nearly 2 pounds and until a couple of days ago had no energy or sparkle in her eyes. The odd thing is that she is ALWAYS hungry through this. My fear was that they would tell me she had some form of cancer but our vet has ruled that out. We have even considered she has some form of separation anxiety...testing to see if the episodes are more severe on days I work than on the days we are home all day. We have 2 other Yorkies and 1 other Biewer and no one else is affected. I feel like I need to really grasp at some straws now to ask more "what if & what do you think?" kinds of questions. She is on bland diet right now and a probiotic supplement and if there are no more episodes, she'll be seen a week from Monday again for a weight / blood/ xray comparison. This dog has been poked, pinched, stretched out and xrayed more this past 3 weeks than a dog should in her entire life. She hasn't had any vaccinations since this started so it is not a reaction to that. Has anyone heard of anything remotely resembling this? It has taken over our lives and turned everything upside down. I haven't shared the details like this because it is enough that I worry than to bring more people into it. Now I need help... If you know anything, have any suggestions, heard of anything like this... please let me know.
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02-27-2009, 03:45 PM | #2 |
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| Can you list all of the blood work that has been done? If she hasn't had a Spec cPL to check for pancreatitis and a TLI with B12 and folate to check for exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and vit. b abnormalities, I would do that immediately. Other than that, have you tried Metronidazole and Tylan? If all this has been done and she is strong enough, she will likely need an intestinal biopsy to check for lymphangiectasia, protein losing enteropathy, lymphosarcoma, etc., etc., etc. It may just be severe IBD or something.
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02-27-2009, 04:54 PM | #3 |
Luv my Angel, too! Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: USA
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| I'm thinking along the same lines as Ellie May - either EPI or Protein losing Enteropahty. Both can be dianogsed only with the Spec CPL.
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02-27-2009, 05:07 PM | #4 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Washington, DC
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| I'm sorry that I can't really offer any guidance on what the problem might be, but just wanted to send you hugs and say I hope Samira gets better soon. I went through a "mystery" problem with my puppy recently, and it was so difficult having no idea what the problem was. It sounds like poor Samira has been going through this even longer. I hope she gets better soon!!
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02-27-2009, 05:21 PM | #5 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Michigan
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| Thanks Ellie, I will check to see what the blood panels included and ask the vet specifically about checking for these things. He did suggest that if we don't have improvements and weight gain then he would be referring to have an intestinal biopsy. We wanted us to try a couple more things to make sure since she's been through a lot already. I really appreciate your suggestions. Thank you to you too Jodi! ~Lorene
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02-27-2009, 07:01 PM | #6 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | My pom had chronic colitis and would have flare ups frequently. She never had vomiting just the diahhrea. I had metronidazole for her when she had a flare up. I hope they can find out what is causing it soon.
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02-28-2009, 07:05 AM | #7 | |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Maryland
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| Quote:
My mother always loved the first male Biewer we bought (imported from Germany), so when we found out that we couldn't breed him due to a retained testicle, he became her little baby. When we first got him, he had these sympotoms as well and had suffered boughts of it over the last few years (most recent one was just this week). We found that maintaining a very regular diet and not introducing new foods / treats seemed to help, but we were also told that stress could cause a flare up as well. The mediciation helps to bring it under control pretty quickly, but you will really want to watch her for dehydration. Please keep us updated!
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02-28-2009, 08:29 AM | #8 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: New Albany, Indiana
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| Sorry, I have no ideas, just sympathy. Best of luck, you are in my prayers. |
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