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Originally Posted by ally173  my dog had a pancreatitis attack but since she was only 2 years and had a chance to live by treatment; the vet didn't want to put her to sleep; only dogs that have no chance or little chance to live will have that option.
my dog was always showing symptoms of anorexia and vomiting; but for 2 years i have been asking the vet and they diagnosed her with gastritis; which is a common thing if you read about it. sometimes chronic pancreatitis is hard to diagnos until a full blow attack is present; and those attacks are unpredictable; in this case it was because the vet force fed my dog the night before.
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my dog had his attack at 2 years old as well. He was perfectly healthy prior. I disagree pancreatitis and epi show up on blood work and a dog that has had digestive issues should have a spec cpli and tli run. The cpli is to test for pancreatitis and tli is to test for epi. If your dog was starving it could have been epi and enzyme therapy would have been necessary. A dog can eat and starve if they have epi. If these two tests were not run I would ask WHY NOT? amylase and lipase are not always accurate in diagnosing pancreatitis as they were all over the place with dex - when he felt good they were high when he was sick they were normal so i do not put much credence in those tests but the dog will tend to have high triglycerides as well as high white blood cell count as that is a sign of infection so a snap in house cpli tli can be done to determine quickly as sending out to lab takes 3-4 days to get results. If the dog tests high on cpli yet is not sick then they are finding this is tied to ibd per our internal medicine specialist and she said dogs that tend to test high on amylase and lipase regularly also tend to have ibd she is finding. She is the best in our county and works at the specialty hospital where they train new vets 4 a year out of vet school. She is awesome and saved my dogs life. I trust her completely. She is doing a study right now on triglycerides being tied to pancreatitis. I questioned it when dex was doing great for 4 years and his latest blood work came back high on triglycerides after a 12 fast then i read in the whole dog journal about hypolipidermia and dogs with high triglycerides on 12 fast are prone to pancreatitis. I then immediately called her and asked could this be partly why dex had pancreatitis and my other two did not yet they all ate the same thing. She said funny you should ask as i am doing a study on this now. I said I believe this is true as it makes sense. High fat content in the blood and article said certain breeds have this and yorkies are one and why i believe this breed gets it more than others as they did say alot of yorkies are coming into the hospital with this so it all makes sense as i was racking my brain for years why my dex almost died and i am a very analytical person so i had to know what caused my boy to be so sick so it never happened again and i could help others