Input and prayers needed for Reggie
 

Reggie was neutered last Tuesday. He was given Medicam(sp?) for pain to take for 5 days. Sunday night he took his last dose. Yesterday he vomited once that looked like foamy water and we all figured it was the pain meds he had been on because he had been eating less since he had his surgery. Plus he did not eat anything yesterday morning before he threw up. Also, we had our collie on that same med once for arthritis and after a week he started vomiting. So I called the vet yesterday and she said to withhold food for 2 hours then give him boiled chicken and rice. Did that and he at the food just fine. This morning gave him the same about 7:30 am and he ate fine. Came home from work at 2pm today and he had thrown up in his crate. I cleaned all that up, let him potty and then had to take Stacia for a doctor's appt. When I got back he threw up 2 times more. Each time it was chicken and rice that didn't look digested much to me. I called the vet again and she says to withhold food tonight then offer ice cubes late tonight or in the AM.

The thing that has me worried is that she said if he ate chicken and rice at 7:30 am it should have been digested by now and not be coming back up looking like it did. Then she mentioned can happen when there is an obstruction and asked if he could have swallowed something. Well you all know how he likes to swallow everything but to my knowledge he hasn't swallowed anything. Now I am just freaked out.

Has anyone else ever had their dog to throw up whole food hours after eating it from anything other than an obstruction? I wanna believe this is all still sensitivity from the Medicam.

oh Angie, I am so sorry, I have no experience with neutering, but I would tell you that my Harry can't take medicam he vomits and gets letargic, so when Prada went for her spay I asked the vet for another pain killer he gave her rimadyl and she did great on it. so maybe he can't tolerate the medicam.. I will keep Regie in my prayers...
hugs,
Carmen in nj

Oh, poor little guy. I hope he feels better soon!

He isn't lethargic at least. So far he is walking around and trying to get us to play with him like always.

Poor baby I hope he is feeling better soon, I think Carmen is right could be the meds:aimeeyork

Poor little guy! My pom will throw up food hours later in a tube shape like it never wnet in her tummy

He threw up again about 20 mins ago but it was just like a little water that time, no food. So I assume that means his tummy is empty now. He is still wanting to play and all. It is just the weirdest thing but has me worried for sure.

Well, he just had another wretching and trying to vomit spell. Nothing but a little foamy water comes up now. I don't know what to do. This is so nerve wracking. Once he gets over the wretching spell he goes right back to playing with his chew toy and such like he is fine.

Sending prayers. Hope he feels better soon. Meds can make them a bit kitchy.

Not sure if I made it clear or not but he has not had any of the pain medicine since Sunday night. Do you all think it could still be the culprit in that it left his stomach so irritated?

I have two yorkies brother and sister. We didnt have trouble with neutering except he busted the stitches and had to have new ones. However they have both spitup food in foam that was pretty solid boiled chicken,white rice,baby carrots sometimes within a couple hours sometimes within five or six hours. Xander sometimes has digestive problems and you can hear his stomach making squirting noises and he will spit up. When this happens I give him 1/4 th of a pepcid ac. The reason for all this is to say maybe his stomach has a lot of acid from the meds, pepcid may help.
Hope this helps.

Reggie last threw up at 10:30 last night. I just talked to the one of the vets at my regular group and she said since this has been going on 2 days now she wants to give him something for nausea and to settle his tummy. So off we go.

I hope he feels better soon.

Good luck! Hope you feel better soon Reggie.

oh Angie, so sorry, please keep us updated on Regie..
hugs,
Carmen in nj

Poor little Reggie.
Hopefully this vet visit will get him on the road to recovery.
Perhaps the meds just don't agree with him. Once they are
out of his system he will stop vomiting.


Hugs,

poor reggie :( i hope you have good news from the vet today

miss buffey had a reaction to her pain meds after her spay ... she was vomiting foamy, liquidy stuff for almost two days...we called our vet and they told me to just watch her (we have since changed vets!!!) ... we ended up taking her to the ER vet on easter morning because it was turning to pinkish foam ... i am SO glad we did that because she had to be on other meds for a week to get everything back to normal again ... they said it was VERY good we brought her in otherwise things could have gone downhill

i am so glad you took him in and i pray that you will update us with good news soon! :)

The vet says given his history of a sensitive stomach she thinks it may be ulcerated or irritated from the Metacam. He didn't have a fever and she said his stomach felt normal on palpitation. She gave him a shot for nausea and sent home some nausea pills. She also gave him some medicine for the esophagus and stomach irritation to take twice a day. I did give him about 1 TBSP of his Royal Canin puppy food moistened with water at 10:15 am and so far he has held that down. I had to give him something because he was standing on his toes looking at the bag of food on the table and barking to let me know he was hungry. The vet said that was okay to give it to him in small amounts like that.

Well he kept down his liquid medicine this morning and a little food and I was to give him his nausea pill at 11:30. I gave it to him and 5 mins later he started vomiting! Sheesh! I think it may be from the taste of the pill and the fact it was kinda big but I called the vet and she said watch him and if he vomits again I have to bring him back in.