Newly diagnosed dog in distress
Posted: 23 Jul 2021, 19:44
Lucy, our 4 year old female pug was diagnosed with EPI a month and a half ago. Her TLI levels at the time of diagnosis was 0.80. She had dropped from her normal weight of 25-26 pounds to 20-21 pounds and had all of the classic signs of EPI (lethargy, epi poo, voracious appetite, trying to eat poo)
We started her immediately on the porcine enzymes, and she responded great to them. Her poops almost immediately went to normal and she started putting on the pounds. The only unusual things we noticed was that she became EXTREMELY hyper just before meal time, and she became EXTREMELY lethargic just after eating. But other than that, her weight got back to 24 pounds, she had lots of energy, was on a very regular pooping cycle and seemed to be back to herself.
Until today,
Suddenly, out of the blue, she became very lethargic, almost catatonic. She yelps when we pick her up like she is in pain, especially in her back right underbelly/leg area). She is not pooping or peeing, and when she goes outside she goes to a far corner and sits down and doesn't want to move. When she's in the house, she wants to go away from us and just sit there (normally she is very cuddly and wants to be by us).
She is still excited to eat, and gobbles down her food. She's less interested in drinking water. And about 5-10 min. after drinking, she sometimes spits up a very tiny amount of liquid (about 1-2 tablespoons). Her last poo (this morning) was well-formed and normal.
The only thing that changed recently is that we gave her one 1000mcg PetFactor B12 capsule with her dinner the last two nights.
Unfortunately our vet is a solo practitioner and he is on vacation through next week. We live in a remote area and the nearest emergency vet is in another town and had a 4-6 hour wait time. We're also worried that a new vet might not be familiar with her and her condition and it would be liked starting from scratch.
Any suggestions of what this could be or what to do for her?
Brian
Lucy's Dad
We started her immediately on the porcine enzymes, and she responded great to them. Her poops almost immediately went to normal and she started putting on the pounds. The only unusual things we noticed was that she became EXTREMELY hyper just before meal time, and she became EXTREMELY lethargic just after eating. But other than that, her weight got back to 24 pounds, she had lots of energy, was on a very regular pooping cycle and seemed to be back to herself.
Until today,
Suddenly, out of the blue, she became very lethargic, almost catatonic. She yelps when we pick her up like she is in pain, especially in her back right underbelly/leg area). She is not pooping or peeing, and when she goes outside she goes to a far corner and sits down and doesn't want to move. When she's in the house, she wants to go away from us and just sit there (normally she is very cuddly and wants to be by us).
She is still excited to eat, and gobbles down her food. She's less interested in drinking water. And about 5-10 min. after drinking, she sometimes spits up a very tiny amount of liquid (about 1-2 tablespoons). Her last poo (this morning) was well-formed and normal.
The only thing that changed recently is that we gave her one 1000mcg PetFactor B12 capsule with her dinner the last two nights.
Unfortunately our vet is a solo practitioner and he is on vacation through next week. We live in a remote area and the nearest emergency vet is in another town and had a 4-6 hour wait time. We're also worried that a new vet might not be familiar with her and her condition and it would be liked starting from scratch.
Any suggestions of what this could be or what to do for her?
Brian
Lucy's Dad