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Teetering on meltdown.
Because I left Winston for a week (in the very capable hands of my two roommates), he developed a case of stress colitis. This seems to have triggered some kind of major intestinal meltdown, and despite a change in medications (saw his vet a week ago, up'd the Flagyl and added Sulfasalzine - never tried the combo before), he's still having off and on issues - and by issues I mean soft stools that end up all over his backside. Awful thing is, it seems like the soft stool now may be tied to the fact that I've had to go in to campus two days this week, and because his backside is unpredictable, he had to be locked in my room while I was gone (roommates' orders). So now I'm worried that his stress colitis is causing further stress colitis, and so on and so forth...
I just don't know what to do.
He's on an extremely controlled - and bland - diet for his IBS - nothing has changed. This diet had worked before I went to Canada! I had even been able to taper him down to 1/4 Flagyl every other day and he had been doing great on that dose for weeks. Now I feel like we're back to square one, but he's pumped full of meds while eating the food that used to be okay.
I feel so bad for him and would do anything to make this all clear up. I just someone could tell me what the hell to do!!!!
Thankfully, he's happy and healthy otherwise (he weighs 12 pounds 2 ounces for the love of god)... but this can't be comfortable for him.
Is it time to buck my vet I love so dearly and try raw!?!? She's so good and has specialty training in GI issues, but I hate just pumping him full of more and different drugs all the time. UGH. I just don't know what to do...
Thanks for reading my rant.
Just needed to pound it out.
Any suggestions are of course welcome, but know I've tried all kinds of dry food (he now eats a limited ingredient diet as well as boiled chicken and gets probiotics daily) and just about every antibiotic on earth. Steroids have been avoided due to his size... He's big and doesn't need any medication that's going to make him any bigger.
Because I left Winston for a week (in the very capable hands of my two roommates), he developed a case of stress colitis. This seems to have triggered some kind of major intestinal meltdown, and despite a change in medications (saw his vet a week ago, up'd the Flagyl and added Sulfasalzine - never tried the combo before), he's still having off and on issues - and by issues I mean soft stools that end up all over his backside. Awful thing is, it seems like the soft stool now may be tied to the fact that I've had to go in to campus two days this week, and because his backside is unpredictable, he had to be locked in my room while I was gone (roommates' orders). So now I'm worried that his stress colitis is causing further stress colitis, and so on and so forth...
I just don't know what to do.
He's on an extremely controlled - and bland - diet for his IBS - nothing has changed. This diet had worked before I went to Canada! I had even been able to taper him down to 1/4 Flagyl every other day and he had been doing great on that dose for weeks. Now I feel like we're back to square one, but he's pumped full of meds while eating the food that used to be okay.
I feel so bad for him and would do anything to make this all clear up. I just someone could tell me what the hell to do!!!!
Thankfully, he's happy and healthy otherwise (he weighs 12 pounds 2 ounces for the love of god)... but this can't be comfortable for him.
Is it time to buck my vet I love so dearly and try raw!?!? She's so good and has specialty training in GI issues, but I hate just pumping him full of more and different drugs all the time. UGH. I just don't know what to do...
Thanks for reading my rant.
Just needed to pound it out.
Any suggestions are of course welcome, but know I've tried all kinds of dry food (he now eats a limited ingredient diet as well as boiled chicken and gets probiotics daily) and just about every antibiotic on earth. Steroids have been avoided due to his size... He's big and doesn't need any medication that's going to make him any bigger.