[KIMBERLY1717]

Please help. My yorkie harley is 4 years old. I posted some past problems relating to his liver problems in the past. Now i am scared to death. To give brief update of past. Harley was a perfectly healthly yorkie until he was affected by the eukanuba recall on moist food, i think 2 years ago. Of course when the scare occured we did the blood panel and his alt was extremely high. Over months of special diet, being the prescription diet i/d, then he was switched to the l/d, we were able to get the liver back to normal even "extremely well" levels. For the last 8 months or so, he has been rushed to the emergency clinic for dehydration, constipation, diarraha, and then forwared to his vet for test and so on. We have done everything, xrays, fluids, several antibiotics, he was treated for "hge" and supposedly he was back to normal. Harley continues to have this spell about every 5-6 weeks where he goes down, not eating, dont drink water, very letharic, and stomach very noisy, and cant use the bathroom, and then i rush him to get fluids, and it has been the same thing, no real answers. Finally my vet referred me to another vet to have a colonospy and endoscopy test done and at that time, biopsies would be taken. This was done 2 weeks ago, about 4 days after that, harley went down again, we then did a bile acid test. Last thursday the results were given to me, and i am real confused. The bile acid test was abnormal it was 79 and the vet read the pathologist report to me and nothing was good. He said harley most likely had a or multiple liver shunts, based on his bile acid, and rest of the results, and that he had ibs as well, and bacteria all in him; i guess that is the laymans version, not using the big words, he wants to do an ultrasound to see if the shunts would show, and stated that if they are on the outside of the liver, it should, and then talked about surgery and opening him up and doing exploritory surgery, and omg, that the risks are extremely high, and i honestly dont know what to do. I was so scared i went straigt to my regular vet, and she was able to have the specialist fax the results and to go over them with her, and she disagrees with the liver shunts based on the fact that harley has had mostly all good alt and blood panel with the exception of when the eukanuba issue, she feels that if it was liver shunt he would be sicker more often, and that his blood panels would have been bad all along. She networked with an internal medicine specialist that suggested giving him pretensone and something else, and a low protein diet. I know this is not all the information i need to post, i will put the exact lingo and blood panels on tommorrow, i just wanted to get started and hopefully get some feed back, i did switch his food over a month ago to the wellness based on this forum post and harley's conditions, and he loves the duck, he digest it well and i dont want to switch him to the science diet l/d, its clumpy, and i have done my homework on the indgriendents, and i disagree with that.harley is a very picky eater, and the wellness is 8%protein and 4-5% fat which i know it is not as good as others, but the other brands, just the consistency of them, i know he will not eat. Please help me save my baby boy, he is my world, and he is so happy and lively, and he has to be okay, getting the doomsday report may be a realty check for me, but i am not willing to accept that harley is not going to make it. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

kimberly (harley's mom)