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I wouldn't normally make a thread without posting a bit first, but I'm a puppy-mom on a mission, with a pretty sick pup. This is really long but if you have experience with GI issues please read it all:
Vader has been healthy up until May 26th of this year, he's now 5 months old and is doing pretty poorly. On May 29th we rushed him to the vets as he was pretty lethargic and would yelp in pain if you touched his stomach. He'd had explosive diarrhea for about 4 days but we were just trying to see if it passed. When we got to the vets office an X-ray revealed he'd had a small bit of something lodged in the small intestine. Exploratory surgery was done and it was revealed to be a bit of a rubbery substance, we're assuming antler marrow because it's the same color and we have nothing in the house that is brown rubber (we even checked shoe bottoms). He also had severely swollen lymph nodes but a biopsy returned them as normal. He was severely distended and was a level 3 emergency when admitted.
The next afternoon he came home, he was doing well and on Hills G/I prescription wet food. He'd been on it for 3 days when they told us to switch him to his normal dry food. He came home with Metronidazole and Famotidine to help with his healing and progress and was kept on crate rest with minor activity (as much as you can for a hyperactive pup). He threw up his food the second morning he was on regular dry food, and the morning after he threw up grass that he'd managed to get a piece or two of (he loves to eat it non-stop even feeling up to par) and another piece of the brown rubber he'd gotten. He hadn't gotten into anything as I hovered over him the entire days before. Was doing fine, fast forward to after he got his staples out. They told us he could do any and all activity since it'd been 12 days after his surgery. He was doing great, wanted to run and do his normal swimming activities.
June 14th he started vomiting in his crate every morning. It started as gagging sounds, and progressed to full flegged vomiting. It was at the same time every day, before breakfast and ranged from yellow bile, to bile with grass to the last day being brown food. The vet set up an appointment for Tuesday and we went down, she put him on Metoclopramide and felt his tummy to see if there were any issues, he didn't yelp like before (still doesn't, I've checked daily) and sent him with some more G/I food to slowly switch him to. She said he was too young to most likely have a problem with the pancreas not producing enough enzymes so we were going to try this first.
He came home and was back to explosive diarrhea, but we gave him his medicine that night and waited to see if he threw up come morning. He vomited later in the afternoon and it was a pile of grass, nothing more. After a nap he proceeded to throw up the past 3 meals (sheer quantity estimates), after which I called the vet. They more or less told me they don't know what to do. That he's not following normal responses to treatments and to take him to see a specialist.
I don't want anyone to think I'm on here posting instead of finding care for my dog. I love him unconditionally, I just really don't have the money after having to pay for the surgery and buying medications, follow up visits, and special foods. We plan on doing absolutely everything in our power to get him better, but I thought someone else might have experience with something like this.
We went to old school yesterday and put him on hamburger and rice, I have stopped giving him the slew of medications because it seemed to get worse after putting him on the anti-vomiting one and I read a lot of the side effects can be from the medications. I also can't check for lethargy if the medication makes him lethargic. He threw up last night's meal in his crate and I just found it a couple hours ago, but he's done okay holding on to his two meals today.
Any advice please help. I would really appreciate it and it would at least help point me in the direction I need to go.
Vader has been healthy up until May 26th of this year, he's now 5 months old and is doing pretty poorly. On May 29th we rushed him to the vets as he was pretty lethargic and would yelp in pain if you touched his stomach. He'd had explosive diarrhea for about 4 days but we were just trying to see if it passed. When we got to the vets office an X-ray revealed he'd had a small bit of something lodged in the small intestine. Exploratory surgery was done and it was revealed to be a bit of a rubbery substance, we're assuming antler marrow because it's the same color and we have nothing in the house that is brown rubber (we even checked shoe bottoms). He also had severely swollen lymph nodes but a biopsy returned them as normal. He was severely distended and was a level 3 emergency when admitted.
The next afternoon he came home, he was doing well and on Hills G/I prescription wet food. He'd been on it for 3 days when they told us to switch him to his normal dry food. He came home with Metronidazole and Famotidine to help with his healing and progress and was kept on crate rest with minor activity (as much as you can for a hyperactive pup). He threw up his food the second morning he was on regular dry food, and the morning after he threw up grass that he'd managed to get a piece or two of (he loves to eat it non-stop even feeling up to par) and another piece of the brown rubber he'd gotten. He hadn't gotten into anything as I hovered over him the entire days before. Was doing fine, fast forward to after he got his staples out. They told us he could do any and all activity since it'd been 12 days after his surgery. He was doing great, wanted to run and do his normal swimming activities.
June 14th he started vomiting in his crate every morning. It started as gagging sounds, and progressed to full flegged vomiting. It was at the same time every day, before breakfast and ranged from yellow bile, to bile with grass to the last day being brown food. The vet set up an appointment for Tuesday and we went down, she put him on Metoclopramide and felt his tummy to see if there were any issues, he didn't yelp like before (still doesn't, I've checked daily) and sent him with some more G/I food to slowly switch him to. She said he was too young to most likely have a problem with the pancreas not producing enough enzymes so we were going to try this first.
He came home and was back to explosive diarrhea, but we gave him his medicine that night and waited to see if he threw up come morning. He vomited later in the afternoon and it was a pile of grass, nothing more. After a nap he proceeded to throw up the past 3 meals (sheer quantity estimates), after which I called the vet. They more or less told me they don't know what to do. That he's not following normal responses to treatments and to take him to see a specialist.
I don't want anyone to think I'm on here posting instead of finding care for my dog. I love him unconditionally, I just really don't have the money after having to pay for the surgery and buying medications, follow up visits, and special foods. We plan on doing absolutely everything in our power to get him better, but I thought someone else might have experience with something like this.
We went to old school yesterday and put him on hamburger and rice, I have stopped giving him the slew of medications because it seemed to get worse after putting him on the anti-vomiting one and I read a lot of the side effects can be from the medications. I also can't check for lethargy if the medication makes him lethargic. He threw up last night's meal in his crate and I just found it a couple hours ago, but he's done okay holding on to his two meals today.
Any advice please help. I would really appreciate it and it would at least help point me in the direction I need to go.
