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Looking for any insight on what is going on and if anyone else has experienced this. Will try to keep as short as possible. Beginning: Max is 13 he has always been a puker because normally he ate too fast or if food was stale it would come back up. In December 2018 he started having bright red blood in his poop which then progressed to diarrhea.
I took him to the vet and they did x-rays did not see anything so they suspected IBD. I changed his food at their suggestion and things seemed to get better for a while. He would still throw up every now and then but nothing that was concerning. Fast forward to November 2019 he started having constipation issues and vomiting every day or every other day. I took him back to the vet and they again suspected it was the IBD. We put him on prednisolone and high quality food. He was miralax and on the pred for 3 weeks and did great, no throwing up, no bathroom issues.
When the pred prescription was out (kept doing miralax) we were back to square one with the vomiting. I spoke to the vet and she told me it can take 8 weeks for the new food to really help him so I waited and kept feeding him what she suggested. I tracked every time he was sick, no improvement until March 2020 where we went 10 straight days of no vomiting, then April 2020 hit, and it was every day or every other day again.
We went back to the vet and she put him back on pred. This time pred did not help so we did another food change. I got again the 8 week speech regarding the food helping so I kept him on it. Things got worse and he was now throwing up twice a day, still was on miralax. We went back to the vet to get blood work, all they could tell me was everything looked normal including thyroid other than his white blood cells were elevated and his kidney values a little off but they figured it was from the vomiting or he was in very very very early stages of kidney disease and its something we needed to watch going forward. So we stayed on pred and new food.
One day he could not keep anything down and I made emergency app with a different vet this time because i felt i wasn't getting anywhere. He got the full work up xrays and ultrasounds as well as urinalysis (May 2020). He was severely constipated and his gi tract was extremely inflamed. They gave him sub fluids,shot of pred aka dex and some anti nausea. He was then put on another new food royal canin gastro, prescription diet and higher dose of pred 10mg a day. He did very well for two weeks and then we were back at square one, what changed was we started to lower the pred dose from 10-5mg.
So called the vet back up to 10mg, we then kept having constipation issues so he had emergency enema. We then put him on cisapride for constipation and cerenia for nausea. We kept the 10mg of pred since that seemed to work.They now suspected more gi lymphoma and the only way to know for sure was to do the 2500 surgery to extract a piece of his intestine. I love Max so of course i want to do what I can and at this point i had already spent easily 1500 and i just wasnt sure how he would handle surgery so I did not go this route. Also, because if it was something else they likely would do the same treatment. Now on occasion his vomit would have blood in it which I also told them.
We changed his food again and kept on the high pred but June was a rough month. Not only is he now vomiting every other day or every two days, he has become very picky with food. He refuses to eat the new food and his appetite is very up and down. At this point i feed him whatever he will eat just to make sure he gets something. Though usually only last a day or two and he wont eat that food anymore. So i am constantly switching foods.
He drinks a decent amount of water and is still using the cat box. However he seems nauseous a lot, he does this mouth thing like hes trying to eat peanut butter, or acts like hes trying to cover his food by scratching his paw on the ground. The cerenia can only be given every now and then, I was advised not to give every day because it will cause tremors and such. He still has spunk most days and loves to go outside. Oddly, last week he was so ravenous I couldn't get him enough food, that lasted 3 days and then the next few he was barely eating and hiding, his vomit also started to smell foul which i hadn't noticed prior.
Today 7/1/20 hes somewhere in the middle, he will eat and begs but doesnt eat too much and is very finicky. He still wants to go outside and does not seem in pain or that hes struggling to do anything he wants like up on one of our high stools to look out the window. I am only giving him 1 preds 5mg a day because he hates being pilled and his appetite isn't reliable enough for me to give 2 preds a day and to be frank it doesn't seem to make a difference now whether its 1 or 2 preds a day.
He has also lost a lot of muscle mass and i can feel his spine and hip bones. When this started he was 15.84 pounds he is now 11.8. His weight doesnt seem to be dropping to fast. I feel like the nausea is a big reason for his appetite but im not sure what to do for it. I know its a lot but I appreciate any insight from anyone regarding this.
I took him to the vet and they did x-rays did not see anything so they suspected IBD. I changed his food at their suggestion and things seemed to get better for a while. He would still throw up every now and then but nothing that was concerning. Fast forward to November 2019 he started having constipation issues and vomiting every day or every other day. I took him back to the vet and they again suspected it was the IBD. We put him on prednisolone and high quality food. He was miralax and on the pred for 3 weeks and did great, no throwing up, no bathroom issues.
When the pred prescription was out (kept doing miralax) we were back to square one with the vomiting. I spoke to the vet and she told me it can take 8 weeks for the new food to really help him so I waited and kept feeding him what she suggested. I tracked every time he was sick, no improvement until March 2020 where we went 10 straight days of no vomiting, then April 2020 hit, and it was every day or every other day again.
We went back to the vet and she put him back on pred. This time pred did not help so we did another food change. I got again the 8 week speech regarding the food helping so I kept him on it. Things got worse and he was now throwing up twice a day, still was on miralax. We went back to the vet to get blood work, all they could tell me was everything looked normal including thyroid other than his white blood cells were elevated and his kidney values a little off but they figured it was from the vomiting or he was in very very very early stages of kidney disease and its something we needed to watch going forward. So we stayed on pred and new food.
One day he could not keep anything down and I made emergency app with a different vet this time because i felt i wasn't getting anywhere. He got the full work up xrays and ultrasounds as well as urinalysis (May 2020). He was severely constipated and his gi tract was extremely inflamed. They gave him sub fluids,shot of pred aka dex and some anti nausea. He was then put on another new food royal canin gastro, prescription diet and higher dose of pred 10mg a day. He did very well for two weeks and then we were back at square one, what changed was we started to lower the pred dose from 10-5mg.
So called the vet back up to 10mg, we then kept having constipation issues so he had emergency enema. We then put him on cisapride for constipation and cerenia for nausea. We kept the 10mg of pred since that seemed to work.They now suspected more gi lymphoma and the only way to know for sure was to do the 2500 surgery to extract a piece of his intestine. I love Max so of course i want to do what I can and at this point i had already spent easily 1500 and i just wasnt sure how he would handle surgery so I did not go this route. Also, because if it was something else they likely would do the same treatment. Now on occasion his vomit would have blood in it which I also told them.
We changed his food again and kept on the high pred but June was a rough month. Not only is he now vomiting every other day or every two days, he has become very picky with food. He refuses to eat the new food and his appetite is very up and down. At this point i feed him whatever he will eat just to make sure he gets something. Though usually only last a day or two and he wont eat that food anymore. So i am constantly switching foods.
He drinks a decent amount of water and is still using the cat box. However he seems nauseous a lot, he does this mouth thing like hes trying to eat peanut butter, or acts like hes trying to cover his food by scratching his paw on the ground. The cerenia can only be given every now and then, I was advised not to give every day because it will cause tremors and such. He still has spunk most days and loves to go outside. Oddly, last week he was so ravenous I couldn't get him enough food, that lasted 3 days and then the next few he was barely eating and hiding, his vomit also started to smell foul which i hadn't noticed prior.
Today 7/1/20 hes somewhere in the middle, he will eat and begs but doesnt eat too much and is very finicky. He still wants to go outside and does not seem in pain or that hes struggling to do anything he wants like up on one of our high stools to look out the window. I am only giving him 1 preds 5mg a day because he hates being pilled and his appetite isn't reliable enough for me to give 2 preds a day and to be frank it doesn't seem to make a difference now whether its 1 or 2 preds a day.
He has also lost a lot of muscle mass and i can feel his spine and hip bones. When this started he was 15.84 pounds he is now 11.8. His weight doesnt seem to be dropping to fast. I feel like the nausea is a big reason for his appetite but im not sure what to do for it. I know its a lot but I appreciate any insight from anyone regarding this.