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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