[sadiesamie]

Originally Posted by Ellie May

I meant to say you did not do the wrong thing, not I did not do the wrong thing.

Anyway, that is exactly what I was saying.

Lets just take a scenario:
Samie has a shunt or MVD.
Actigall helps and lowers bile acids.
You recheck bile acids and they are normal, so you suspect nothing is wrong...
Now there is a hidden problem that is covered up with the Actigall.
Hopefully this is not the case.
That is why I don't like it though.
Please, if you decide to take her off do it under the supervision of a vet. If your vet says she needs it, maybe she does. If it were my dog, I would use Denosyl or Vetri and skip the Actigall until shunt and MVD are ruled out, then I would consider it to get the bile acids down. This needs to be a decision between you and your vet though.

how she decided it was since we said that we wanted to do more research on whether or not to have a biopsy first. she said she understands that cost is an issue for some people so they opt to treat with meds. that was when she said to continue the denamarina and that she could prescribe the ursodiol. I am going to have my husband talk with the vet next week. Hubby is kinda making me mad bc he said lets just retest- he is getting upset bc i am so involved in it and he says it's all i talk about :-( he means well but yes- things are not perfect right now with both of our girls and i just told him tonight that he needs to understand a few things- for one- i am compliling loads of info about what is going on and each day i learn something more. It's not like i am trying to research something that doesn't make sense or looking persay to find different info. i am learning more about bat and food and all kinds of things. Never have i been at a point where i know everything and i am sorry but i will continue to talk about this until we find out the cause of this. so he will just have to deal with me i guess in the meantime :-) he is a truly wonderful man to me and i love him dearly. i know he is tired of listening to me but Samie is his baby too. he loves that dog so much. and she definitely is a papa's girl too. she favors him over me and sadie favors me over my husband. not sure why? it just is like that. so my only explanation for him getting this way is i guess he just does not realize that this is more than something like ok- here is the problem and this is how we treat it kinda a thing. it needs researched -that simple. :-)