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04-08-2012, 07:55 PM | #1 |
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| Stressed, not sure how to make her better Today was her first vomit in two months. She's on cisapride to prevent vomiting and she vomited anyways. She's still regurgitating and swallowing it before it comes out except today I found a vomit stain on her pillow. I took her to families house and she ran around and did her usual investigating. Since we live across the street from family at dinner time we took her home so she didn't accidentally get food from the young children there. Then when we came home she would barely walk to us. Tail between the legs kinda hunched up as she walked and shaking. Once she laid down she stopped shaking but I keep hearing her make a swallowing noise. Doesn't seem to be limping but when she sits she sometimes is holding her paw up. She seemed very uncomfortable but now is sleeping in her normal position. They know she has a stomach mobility disorder but don't know why. She's had bloody stools, vomiting once a day until we started cisapride. She's loosing her whiskers too which I think is weird. And I keep seein a lot of her hair on her pillow. She itches a lot and I've seen her scoot her butt on the rub maybe twice in the last couple months. She is becoming less and less playful but she is also almost two now so it could be because she's getting older?? Stools have been normal since I started natural balance grain free and probiotics and plant enzymes. I think I may see small string like things in her stool but can't tell if it's from her puppy pad or not. She's her poop every time she gets a chance. She's been tested for worms came back negative. And a million other tests all negative. Even surgery to see if there's a blockage. I feel like something's really wrong since she's not her normal self. Could worms cause this or is inflammatory bowel disease like the vet thinks. I'm so stressed at this point. I feel like I call the vet every day. Has anyone else experienced this? Last edited by Jamie06283; 04-08-2012 at 07:58 PM. Reason: Mistake in wording |
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04-08-2012, 07:58 PM | #2 |
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| I believe I would get a second opinion from another vet clinic and take that stool for examination.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-08-2012, 08:05 PM | #3 |
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| I've had three different vets look at her so far. In my post I meant eating her stools. I couldn't go back and change it. No one can tell me what's wrong. My neighbor has Yorkies and she said her yorkie died from what I'm discribing and they never figured out why. I'm just so sad I hate knowing somethings wrong and I don't know how to fix it. I've spent thousand of dollars on her in the last four months. |
04-08-2012, 08:08 PM | #4 |
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| Would you ask the vet for a dewormer if you were me? They took her off heartgard because of the possible food allergy. I've heard so many horrible stories about topical dewormers I'm scared it will hurt her. She was 3.7 pounds before this started she's not at 3 pounds. |
04-08-2012, 08:14 PM | #5 |
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| You need to take the stool in that/when you see the white stringy stuff in it as it could be tape worm & tape worm will Only show in a stool sample when they are shedding off so a dog could actually be full of tape worm & it may not show in a stool sample. How old is your baby & what other if any symptoms has she had ? Last edited by lillymae; 04-08-2012 at 08:17 PM. |
04-08-2012, 08:20 PM | #6 |
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| Were all vets at the same clinic or did you go to another clinic? Sometimes a different clinic will provide a whole new approach and have better diagnostic tools. If you've done that, I believe I would get her looked at by my state vet school and where she can be fully evaluated. It sounds like her quality of life is pretty low right now and as you know better than most, she needs to get a diagnosis and/or treatment that will give this poor baby some real relief.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-08-2012, 08:32 PM | #7 |
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| Two different vets. There's a vca vet I've looked into taking her to. Not sure if they are good or not. Her symptoms in the last four months include two cases of extremely bad hge. Which is all blood coming out in her stool, regurgitating food usually once a day and a while after she has eaten. They did a baruim X-ray which showed the baruim takin longer then usual to move out of the stomach which then they thought blockage so she had exploratory surgery and found nothing. Did see her intestines were inflamed but not bad. Tested for liver shunt, Addison's, giardia, pancreatitis and a million other things. Haven't sent the bioposy out yet because we've already spent so much but that would rule out ibd. Shes not as playful any more but getting older and has been through a lot. Ear infection with yeast and bacteria. I have seen blood in her stool twice in the last three weeks. Has a lot of regurgitating burps. She's on cisapride Pepcid and enzymes and probiotics. Her stomach used to gurgle a lot but not any more. She had her first hge in feb 2011 |
04-08-2012, 08:34 PM | #8 |
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| Did the do an EGD on her ? EGD = Scope |
04-08-2012, 08:34 PM | #9 |
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| Whiskers falling out and I've seen clumps of her but no bald spots. Eats her stool when I can't pick it up right away. So usually when she's home alone. Itches a lot. |
04-08-2012, 08:36 PM | #10 |
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| No vet let us choose between that and exploratory surgery but now I regret it. I wish we would have. |
04-08-2012, 08:41 PM | #11 |
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| I believe in a case like this I would want the vet school to assess her if your vets don't know what that is in her poop, for instance. She's probably going to need a team with a wide experience in exotic diagnostics & equipment that regular vets might not have. I sure hope you can get her in somewhere excellent so this little girl can get some relief from these awful symptoms.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-08-2012, 08:47 PM | #12 |
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| Thanks I hope so too. |
04-08-2012, 08:54 PM | #13 | |
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04-08-2012, 09:04 PM | #14 |
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| Also, if your baby has tape worm in her it could cause all of these symptoms depending on how long it's been there so deff take the stool sample in to your vet the next time you see the white stringy stuff in her stool. If she poo's at night you can put it in a ziplock bag in the fridge till you can take it to your vet the next day. I will be Praying you can find some answers sooner rather then later. |
04-09-2012, 10:34 AM | #15 | |
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