[yorkietalkjilly]

Just read your thread and thank goodness it's not cancer. My Tibbe has been on Hills I/D GI for about 3 years for his adult-onset IBS, then got diagnosed with MVD and I had to add the Hill's L/D Hepatic to it as he itches too much if he eats only Hepatic. He's been MVD-symptom free for several months now. Lisa(lisaly), another member here, very kindly sent me some of her Dogzymes Max Probiotic & some coconut oil for a yeast/bacterial combo skin infection he was also having at the time) to try Tibbe on and I started him out with only a few grains of the probiotics and a tiny drip of the oil every few days - as his tummy is so sensitive - and gradually worked up to about 1/8th teaspoon of both 6 out of 7 days and with that, have been able to increase the proportions of his hepatic food - even gradually adding in the kibble version of it, which he couldn't tolerate at all at first for some reason.

Anyway, now, on the the probiotics and virgin coconut oil, he can tolerate half of his meal of the Hill's Hepatic and hasn't had any N&V or diarrhea, loud digestive sounds or lethargy for months now. This is his longest symptom-free episode since he first became IBS- and then MVD- symptomatic somewhere about 3 1/2 - 5 1/2 years of age. B4 that, he could eat green beans, carrots, plain potato, loved a bite of orange or lemon, some stew over his kibble, a bite of meat from the table and boiled chicken and then suddenly, everything made him vomit and have loose stools, gas and loud tummy sounds, he'd jump in pain and look around at his tummy, lethargy and just standing in the middle of the floor with his head hanging down. Starting him first on Hill's I/D GI and then the Hill's L/D Hepatic have given him back his former lifestyle of always bouncing around and enjoying being a dog again.

But now that he's able to eat more of the hepatic kibble, which he couldn't manage at all before the probiotics, I'm one day going to try him on a food with better main ingredients with the vet's approval or maybe even try some home cooking - just a kibble at a time if I must for starters - and pray he can tolerate it and then see what other wholesome food he might can eat with his IBS/MVD.