Re: New EPI diagnosis
Posted: 10 Mar 2021, 00:12
I feel like I am at a loss and at the beginning again where I was so confused and stressed. I don’t think Cali is getting too much food or too much or not enough enzymes. She is eating 1/2 a cup of kibble( hills science diet puppy food free of soy, corn and wheat) with a spoonful of wet ( hill science diet I/D chicken stew) 3 x a day with 1/2 tsp of enzymes at each feeding. In the morning and the evening I give her 1/8 tsp of slippery elm with a little wet food(tiny amount) right before incubation starts along with two tiny beads (the insides of a pill) of Prilosec. The afternoon feeding she gets a capsule of visbiome. The vet wanted me to change her food to Purina E/N which I was hesitant in doing because of the ingredients, I didn’t see anything on there but a whole bunch of processing. When I tried canned merrick grain free food she didn’t respond well, so I went back to the other canned food which she seemed to do well on. Her gas and reflux has stopped. However her poops just keep getting watery. Sometimes they are soft and formed but lately no form. My vet is refusing to give me tylan. This is not something I can get without a prescription. I have appointment with another vet but that is not until the 21st and I feel a little stressed that starting new may not help me for a little while as I will have to start at square one. I don’t know if tylan will be something this new vet will give me right away. I honestly don’t know what to do. I have come right out and asked and they just won’t give it to me. What am I suppose to do? I suspect as well there is SID. But I just don’t know how to control it without antibiotic. When I tried grain free on Cali that’s when her poops seemed to be come less formed and even more poops that she is doing now. I don’t know if this is possible as it seems grain free is the best option for EPI dogs, but could it be that she doesn’t need grain free? Or that it doesn’t sit well with her? I just don’t know how I am to obtain tylan when my vet is refusing. I can’t even see if it would work for Cali. But these poops just can’t be like this forever. She has had literally two hard poops( when I wrote before bragging about it) and that’s it. I was following the exact same regimen above when that occurred. I thought it was because of the visbiome and it was going to last, it didn’t. I just don’t know. But since I have started she has yet to have “good” poops. We are going on 60 days, since enzymes, probiotics, prebiotics, Prilosec, changing food, changing probiotics, you name it. I don’t understand how I could have only had one day of two solid poops. I was just so excited when then happened, and now it is gone.