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Originally Posted by ladyjane  My Cookie is on prednisone every other day and takes Famotidine (Pepcid) with it to prevent stomach upsets. You might want to speak with your vet about doing that. You might also want to try feeding him Hill's ID or Purina EN...but, of course, ask your vet about that. I have a pup who is now on Purina EN because he just kept having problems with digestion. He is fine now.
As for the elevated lipase...I have seen that quite a few times in my pups and it has never meant anything at all. All by itself like that, my vet does not put much into it. Any of them who have had that, have later had labs that were perfectly normal. |
I asked about Hill's ID but the female vet gave me a prescription for that Royal Canin Gastrointestinal, which I didn't see until I got home. Do you like the Hill's better than the RC for tummy upsets/gas/roiling sounds? I've actually got a can of that right now from when he had pneumonia & they sent him home with that in case he got tummy upsets from the antibiotics or just the infection.
Oh, your statement about the elevated lipase makes me feel so much better. When the vet said it could mean nothing, I heard that but thought maybe he was just coddling me at first before saying, well, it could be......
And he also said a repeat lipase a bit down the road could very well be normal but I was so sure at that point Tibbe was very ill, I really didn't take it to heart or even really believe him. Like a nut, I was just panicked.
Little Tibbe has had several single tablespoons of kibble soup today now & thank the Lord, no gas, no watery sounds in his tummy, or ears out to the side. He even picked up the chew bone we play hide & seek with and carried it around a bit before I told him to come lie down, not wanting him to start a tummy upset as his next nausea pill not due til tomorrow a.m. He's had water on his on again a few times. I'm feeling so much better that some giant other shoe is not really about to fall that I'm almost giddy tonight. After PT today, a tough, tough session in which the therapist actually tortured me(kidding......mostly), I was so destroyed I didn't go get his Royal Canin Gastointestinal Kibble but after what you said, I think I will try the can of Hill's I/D first & maybe get a new script & go with that if he does okay on it.
Tibbe does act sometimes like he has just had some reflux - I hear a kind of belch & look & he is licking & swallowing - maybe like he had something in his mouth. I will ask the vet about Pepcid. I take Famotidine myself at times & it keeps me from getting nauseated from a lot of stomach acid.
You've given me hope that maybe Tib's future is not grim & I think I might sleep tonight. And, he's doing so much better, he likely will as he is napping in my lap now. His tummy is soft tonight!
You all are the best. I couldn't do without you all. All those ideas & sweet words & prayers. Thanks a zillion. This is how I look tonight:
