Tummy Trouble

[imeldaspoetry]

I have a sweet nine-year-old rescue who’s been with us since slightly after birth (pitty/jack mix-ish) Who has been having some significant G.I. issues. She vomits between 0-3 x per day, with little bowl movement. Our girl who was once overweight has dropped 30 lbs in a matter of 90 days. Various GI meds have been attempted per DVM authority, such as the basics: omeprazole, caprimorelin, etc).

We’ve been to a number of vets, (and have had scans that have caught a number of unrelated issues such as arthritis, pre-cancerous lung cell tissue, and “Air pockets in the liver“ - this one I am unfamiliar).

We got no answers from the prior vet, and by no answers I mean no next steps no data, no nothing.(I explain to the vet that I’m a scientist, I don’t need an answer… I need to know what next stages are to potentially find the answer, maybe)

We switched vets. Per her prior appointment with the old vet on Monday (they say her liver enzymes had increased, golf ball size mass within the rectum, was told all we need to do is “keep her comfortable”) her records also presented potential cancer, with no attempt to biopsy of the mass.

The new vet, felt nor saw a mass on her scans in the colon. Her white blood cell count was high (30k/ uL) last appointment on Saturday, so the vet pushed anabiotic‘s. They referred us to a specialist.

My question is has anybody seen something similar to this before? What were potential causes, what were potential diagnoses, etc.

Really looking for any leads from anyone else’s experiences.

 

[tabbywabby788]

@imeldaspoetry Boil hamburger, drain then add to plain boiled rice, pretty basic but she should be able to keep it down.

 

[imeldaspoetry]

@tabbywabby788 We’ve been doing the bland diet, haven’t done hamburger, but boiled chicken and rice is what she’s been on. We switched it but to GI food when she projectile vomited chicken and rice twice.

We have her back on chicken and rice and had another episode today

 

[annac89]

@imeldaspoetry If she can’t eat chicken you can always do salmon, or pork. You can also add some low salt bone broth to keep her hydrated.

I’ve never seen the case but you should definitely get your old vet to send in all the test, files, and information to the new vet. Maybe at that time her liver was weird but with mixing medicine and stuff it corrected itself. Most doctors don’t do mal-practice on purpose. So if they said test show this is the issue ask them for proof and to give everything to new vet for review.

 

[imeldaspoetry]

@annac89 They did fortunately. We will definitely keep the other proteins on the table as well.

 

[mina198]

@imeldaspoetry Start adding goat’s milk or sheep’s milk to his diet. One small cup everyday. This helped with GI issues for my pup and he is totally fine now.