E P I ..exocrine pancreatic insufficiency

[NUK]

Has your dog been diagnosed with this condition???

[Rerun]

yup....I have a coming 8 y/o female GSD that was diagnosed when she was 3 yrs and a couple months old. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

We buy our enzymes, along with many others, from enzyme diane (google it).

[NUK]

Thank you for that. Had a look. Nice site. Lots of info. Gotta do a bit more digging re enzymes. We live in NZ, so would have to see if shipping it here is permitted and they would do it, and that it would be cost affective. I used to get Pancrex via the vet, shipped from UK, but it's no longer made apparently, (reason????not FDA approved???just a guess)and the vet found Creon, which is over twice the price. I only use Pancreatin as a standby anyway, as we have found that feeding her on raw pancreas is cheaper, and she does better on it. She's coming up to 7yrs, and was diagnosed about 4 yr ago after losing weight despite how much she was being fed, and of course the awful tail end! She'll always be on the slim side, but she now weighs 31kg, and has just had a cyst removed from her back. She has the other GSD probs - skin allergies, and slight hip prob, but she is blessed with a wonderful good nature. She came to us after the potential hip thing was suspected, and she could no longer be trained as a search and rescue dog. NUK is her name. I believe this is an innuit word meaning a way marker or similar.

[JeanKBBMMMAAN]

Overview - EPI * Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency is a great site! Feel free to post pics of Nuk!