Originally Posted by MyFairLacy (Post 2513174)

Lacy has been eating her homecooked diet well and hasn't been sick. Her poops are much bigger now LOL. She's on a lot of supplements right now too: Fish oil & olive oil, Vitamin B complex, Lipozyme, a Probiotic, Marin, and Denosyl...so i'm hoping we'll eventually be able to eliminate some. Plus she is still taking Tyolsin for a few more weeks. We are going to start her on Vitamin B injections this week as well. She'll get an injection weekly for 6 weeks, then an injection every two weeks for 6 weeks, and then she can get them monthly after that if we continue. She'll have her blood retested in a few months after the injections are complete.

Originally Posted by MyFairLacy (Post 2513174)

Lacy has been eating her homecooked diet well and hasn't been sick. Her poops are much bigger now LOL. She's on a lot of supplements right now too: Fish oil & olive oil, Vitamin B complex, Lipozyme, a Probiotic, Marin, and Denosyl...so i'm hoping we'll eventually be able to eliminate some. Plus she is still taking Tyolsin for a few more weeks. We are going to start her on Vitamin B injections this week as well. She'll get an injection weekly for 6 weeks, then an injection every two weeks for 6 weeks, and then she can get them monthly after that if we continue. She'll have her blood retested in a few months after the injections are complete.

Originally Posted by Ladymom (Post 2513255)

After three HGE episodes, I'm rather poop obessed. Much bigger poops with homecooked!

Originally Posted by MyFairLacy (Post 2513174)

Lacy has been eating her homecooked diet well and hasn't been sick. Her poops are much bigger now LOL. She's on a lot of supplements right now too: Fish oil & olive oil, Vitamin B complex, Lipozyme, a Probiotic, Marin, and Denosyl...so i'm hoping we'll eventually be able to eliminate some. Plus she is still taking Tyolsin for a few more weeks. We are going to start her on Vitamin B injections this week as well. She'll get an injection weekly for 6 weeks, then an injection every two weeks for 6 weeks, and then she can get them monthly after that if we continue. She'll have her blood retested in a few months after the injections are complete.

Originally Posted by Ellie May (Post 2513755)

What multi vit and calcium supplement is Lacy on?

Originally Posted by MyFairLacy (Post 2514205)

Another thing I've noticed is lacy's breath is so much better!

Originally Posted by marcerella02 (Post 2518051)

SO glad things are working out!!!!

When- or will- she be retested?

Originally Posted by MyFairLacy (Post 2520965)

Lacy is having a sick day today. She vomitted a little bile this morning. She didn't want to eat her breakfast but the small amount she did eat got thrown upva little later. I just got her to eat the rest of it so hopefully her tummy is a little better and she will eat her other meals. She just keeps shivering. It is cold today so she has warm clothes on and a blanket on her.

I guess it's just going to take some time. She's been on her antibiotic for almost two weeks as well as homecooked. But she's only been on susan Davis' diet and supplements for a week so I'm sure it's just going to take some time

Originally Posted by Nancy1999 (Post 2521045)

Could the antibiotics be upsetting her tummy?

Originally Posted by Ellie May (Post 2521418)

The Tylosin causing that isn't likely.
What are the side effects of B12 injections?

Also, didn't you just start her on a huge list of supplements?
It wouldn't be surprising if that is the problem...

Originally Posted by yorkiesmiles (Post 2526017)

Wondering how Lacy is doing. :)

Originally Posted by MyFairLacy (Post 2456757)

Lacy is a 4 1/2 year old 8lb Yorkie who has always been really healthy. She's very lean..always been on the thin side. She's eaten Nature's Variety raw medallions for over 2 1/2 years and has always done very well on it. She's not a picky eater and normally scarfs down her food. Over the past few months she started having a day once a week or so where she would refuse eat all day and would usually vomit at some point. Some of those days she would have diarrhea, but vomitting was more common. Sometimes we'd go a week in between these days..sometimes two..sometimes as much as three weeks. Last week she was sick Monday and Wednesday...wouldn't eat and vomitted.

So we went to the vet Saturday morning for a checkup. She had an exam, a heartworm check, a full blood panel w/ CBC, and a Bile Acid Test.

Her last meal was 9:30pm Friday night and her first blood sample was drawn around 9:00am Saturday morning. None of my pets or myself ate Saturday morning before the vet appointment as I had heard that sometimes even the smell of food can cause the pre- blood draw to be off.

anyway, her blood panel results were all normal. Got her BAT results today and Pre was 44.5 and Post was 53.5.

Her vet made us another appointment for tomorrow afternoon. She would like to do a urinalysis to check for crystals and wants to do x-rays to check her liver size. She also suggested an ultrasound to check to see if there is a shunt.

So here's where I need advice...I know some of you have gone through liver shunt and MVD with your yorkies and I want to make sure I go about the best route of diagnosis. I don't want to do a lot of unneccessary tests that don't tell us much so I would like some suggestions on where to go from here to best diagnose what is going on. The vet seems to really want to rule out an aquired shunt first....I am more so suspecting MVD.