Liver Shunt or High/Low Blood Sugar - Anyone have similar issues? Hi Everyone, We have a 4 year old Yorkie. Over the past two years he's started displaying, albeit very infrequent, functional motor issues. We went to the vet today, as we have in the past, and today they advised from watching the videos that it's either a blood sugar issue or a Liver Shunt. Below are details. Would appreciate feedback, thoughts and your suggestions! - Did not display any symptoms associated with a liver shunt until age 3/4. - Has had six episodes total (two last year and four this year). - Episode consists of drunkenness type walking, shaking (probably due to fear) and lasts for 1-3 minutes. No other symptoms associated with Liver Shunt present, ever. After the 1-3 minute episode, he's back to hyper and playful self. - Episodes always occur within 30 minutes of eating (our nightly schedule is dinner then walk). Only one episode occurred out of this schedule. One recent episode occurred after breakfast. Gryffin eats Royal Canin Yorkie Adult with a little boiled chicken breast mixed in. He's also had two bouts of severe gastritis in his life--bloodwork done during those times and no abnormal liver levels. Otherwise, Gryffin is very healthy and receives walks and play time every day. Anyone have similar issues? Thoughts? I am nervous about the liver shunt but since most dogs display symptoms at puppy-age and he's only displayed the one symptom in the past two years, I sort of think it's hypo/hyperglycemia. Appreciate your help |
That sounds like liver shunt to me. We have had a member who’s dog didn’t show issues until well into being an adult. I would test for liver shunt. It would be very abnormal to be hypoglycemia right after eating, even if it were hypoglycemia that would be very concerning for an adult dog and mean something bad was going on. Have you done any testing? What is the vet recommending you do? |
The vet has advised to see if it happens again and if it does, get the bloodwork done to test. What did the family do for the dog that exhibited the symptoms? I'm getting nervous about Liver Shunt as I'm only really reading bad things and it looks like it's pretty serious. |
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Anyone have good outcomes dealing with this? Gryffin is a central part of our family and I'm already losing my mind. :( |
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You need to get Bile Acid Testing done on Griffin! Sure a liver shunt can be serious, but it also can be repaired surgically in most cases. Most liver shunt dogs also have IBD which it sounds like he could have. Here is a great informative link: https://vetmed.tennessee.edu/vmc/Sma...D-Brochure.pdf And, here is a link about my Teddy Bear who was diagnosed with a shunt as an adult. He had blood work done over a period of 7 years and nothing was abnormal! So, regular blood work does not always show liver issues in a dog with a congenital shunt...it is dependent on the size of the shunt! It wasn't until he developed bladder stones that we found it. He had the surgery to repair it in 2013 and is fine now! The surgery really is surprisingly simple and they recover quickly!! http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/sic...ver-shunt.html |
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