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Originally Posted by Ellie May  Now that this bout is over with I did want to mention that although flare ups will be life long they don't have to happen this often with the correct management. Diet is really tricky in these cases and it will take some time to figure it out. However, his vets need to figure it out sooner rather than later. It almost sounds like they are accepting that this will happen all the time...?
If they are stumped then it woud be time or a nutritionist. It sounds like he gas failed RC LF, SD ID, SD LD, and ID/LD mix. Metro is a good drug, but when food is setting the problem off it isn't a good solution to use every couple-few months.
I took years to get E's diet figured out, but now that we have she has had no major rlares in well over a year. You don't have to settle for this every other month episode stuff. Oh and no edible chews, no treats until he settles on a food.
I know you have got to be stressed and scared. Don't worry about calling if you want to talk. |
He had been doing great for 4 mos on his half canned Hill's I/D Hepatic and half kibble Hill's I/D GI and then he spit up that bile Monday morning and wouldn't eat all day, just lay about and then that evening he rallied after coming home from the vet and a shot of Cerenia. He did well until night before last when he wouldn't eat and began having those little bits of mucus-stool, which got worse until that loose stool late yesterday afternoon, after having already started him on the Metronidazole. As I'd confessed in a previous thread, he'd been doing very well until he scooped up two kernels of corn in some soy milk I splashed on the floor when making soup. Could that have set him off like this and caused the spitting up of bile and then my panicking, thinking oh, his liver is getting bad and that I'd better go right to the full hepatic for his liver - which his GI system couldn't handle, due to the fat? Could it might just have been that series of events that caused this, since he'd been fine until the corn/soy milk and then the going too quickly into the canned hepatic diet for two days, which seemed to bring on the mucus stools/diarrhea? The vet seemed to think so. With Jilly, just one bite of a piece of cracker or a pea or tiny bit of meat could almost destroy her. She'd start running diarrhea and days of illness from just any little thing. She had to live only on her special kibble and treats made from her kibble. Tibbe normally, when he's not vacuuming the kitchen floor of a spill as he did the corn/soy, gets nothing other than his special food. Even his treats are just softened Hill's I/D GI kibble.