New Diagnosis - Please help!
Posted: 17 Jun 2020, 11:44
Hello All
First – I’m so happy to have found this forum/site. Just browsing a bit and you all are giving me so much comfort that I might just be able to get my dog’s disease under control and save his life.
At this point though, I’m beside myself and my poor pup is so sick and I’m just so confused.
A little info:
Blu is a German Shepherd and he just turned 1 in February. He was probably around 67lbs before all of this started. We’ve had no issues with him, his eating or his pooping until the middle of May when projectile diarrhea started overnight. We were at our cabin and figured he had eaten something he shouldn’t have.
Vet diagnosed him with anaplasmosis and started on Doxycycline. He didn’t get better diarrhea continued, multiple trips back to vet, he was put on prednisone as they determined he had low blood platelets and also pain meds as he was in a ton of pain in his hind quarters. He continued to lose tons of weight and I finally had then run an EPI test.
I couldn’t wait for results and took him to the emergency vet this past Sunday. They admitted him as he was down to 48lbs. They ran a full set of labs and shockingly everything looked decent (liver, pancreas, kidneys etc.). They started IVs with fluids and all sorts of other stuff and got the poop to slow way down and turn solid. He gained 4.5 pounds between Sunday and Tuesday morning.
I went to pick him up and as I was waiting to get him original vet called with the EPI test results. His TLI is LESS than 0.1. I had the results faxed to the emergency vet who said treatment plan will be the same but had me order Pancrezyme® Powder as well. Still waiting on that.
Of course, as soon as we get home he starts in on diarrhea again and went 4 times yesterday afternoon and has had 3 cowpies already this morning.
My concern is the HUGE amount of meds he’s on from emergency vet are not a good fit now that he has this EPI diagnosis. I don’t know what questions to ask or meds to request be stopped or possibly switched and was hoping you all might have some advice. I adore this dog and want to do anything we can to save him.
Today he started getting aggressive with food (he’s been ravenous for 2 weeks and crazy about eating his poop but just today he started ripping into the dog food containers and trying to grab food out of our hands).
The emergency vet has him now on Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Gastrointestinal Low Fat. They said to only feed 5 cups per day which also seems low.
I’ll attach his current med list and the TLI results for reference and a picture of my baby when he was healthy. Thank you so much in advance for any input!
Andrea
First – I’m so happy to have found this forum/site. Just browsing a bit and you all are giving me so much comfort that I might just be able to get my dog’s disease under control and save his life.
At this point though, I’m beside myself and my poor pup is so sick and I’m just so confused.
A little info:
Blu is a German Shepherd and he just turned 1 in February. He was probably around 67lbs before all of this started. We’ve had no issues with him, his eating or his pooping until the middle of May when projectile diarrhea started overnight. We were at our cabin and figured he had eaten something he shouldn’t have.
Vet diagnosed him with anaplasmosis and started on Doxycycline. He didn’t get better diarrhea continued, multiple trips back to vet, he was put on prednisone as they determined he had low blood platelets and also pain meds as he was in a ton of pain in his hind quarters. He continued to lose tons of weight and I finally had then run an EPI test.
I couldn’t wait for results and took him to the emergency vet this past Sunday. They admitted him as he was down to 48lbs. They ran a full set of labs and shockingly everything looked decent (liver, pancreas, kidneys etc.). They started IVs with fluids and all sorts of other stuff and got the poop to slow way down and turn solid. He gained 4.5 pounds between Sunday and Tuesday morning.
I went to pick him up and as I was waiting to get him original vet called with the EPI test results. His TLI is LESS than 0.1. I had the results faxed to the emergency vet who said treatment plan will be the same but had me order Pancrezyme® Powder as well. Still waiting on that.
Of course, as soon as we get home he starts in on diarrhea again and went 4 times yesterday afternoon and has had 3 cowpies already this morning.
My concern is the HUGE amount of meds he’s on from emergency vet are not a good fit now that he has this EPI diagnosis. I don’t know what questions to ask or meds to request be stopped or possibly switched and was hoping you all might have some advice. I adore this dog and want to do anything we can to save him.
Today he started getting aggressive with food (he’s been ravenous for 2 weeks and crazy about eating his poop but just today he started ripping into the dog food containers and trying to grab food out of our hands).
The emergency vet has him now on Royal Canin Veterinary Diet Gastrointestinal Low Fat. They said to only feed 5 cups per day which also seems low.
I’ll attach his current med list and the TLI results for reference and a picture of my baby when he was healthy. Thank you so much in advance for any input!
Andrea