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  • in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #129934 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    Robert I’m so glad it helped…well here we are almost a year later and I hope it’s still working for your Munchkin!

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #91318 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    have you tried different foods? i recommend reading through this whole post. maybe your baby needs omeprazole too πŸ™

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #80765 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    This sounds much more severe than what we went through with Chewy. Poor baby πŸ™ We give him 1/4th pill of Omeprazole each night with his food and that has helped immensely. we did the barium but no endoscopy. I know it’s expensive but our vet was willing to offer payment plans if we were going to do it. We only give him fresh bottled water, not tap or spring. I agree with Dori. Don’t give him tap water. We tried HILLS I/D and it didn’t do anything. We firmly believe with Chewy that it was not the food that made the difference. I hope you find out what’s going on with your baby soon. I know it seems like a lot of money is being spent but once he gets better it will be worth it. Keep us updated.

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    Lisa C
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    Hello all! It has been a while since I wrote and I’ve been meaning to for a while, but kept getting sidetracked. So here I am at 2:40am, haha.

    Our Chewy has been 1000000% fantastic over the last month. Our 2nd opinion vet saved the day. He has been on the omeprazole for over a month now and he hasn’t puked at all. He can eat any foods now that he couldn’t before. Wet, dry, treats of different nature. It’s a miracle. The only thing I worry is, does he have to take this tiny pill for the rest of his life? For the meantime, it’s a nice relief for all of us. We plan on talking to that vet soon to ask her about the Omeprazole. Chewy is a million times better in so many different aspects, attitude wise especially. he’s never depressed and sitting alone ALL day in his bed. he plays constantly, he’s always happy and smiling. It’s like we got our puppy back. We hadn’t seen that in SO long. it warms my heart SO MUCH! and he will be ONE next month!

    Needless to say we gave up on buying Z/D as he can eat anything now and not vomit, and it’s super expensive. Currently he is back on Nutro since that’s what he has had since we first got him and he was a tiny baby.

    Here’s some pics:

    http://oi57.tinypic.com/5xon44.jpg
    http://oi57.tinypic.com/20q1kpy.jpg

    Thanks ALL <3

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #49758 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    I don’t think we will ever get a diagnosis for Chewy without doing the endoscopy. She was thinking more of a “food intolerance” rather than an allergy, since he doesn’t have skin rash, hives, itching, paw biting, etc. The endoscopy is something I just cannot afford right now, so if he keeps doing OK on this food, we will bite the bullet and just continue to buy this Z/D. They did offer that we could do trials of anitibiotics, such as fenbendazole, metronidazole, prednisolon. I didn’t want to do any of that quite yet. He LOVES the Z/D, so that’s good. apparently it’s so specially made it gets made in it’s own building. I get worried that vets are still pushing RX food on us though.

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    Lisa C
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    Hi all. Since the last post, we have taken Chewy to see a new vet. They take payment plans and have good reviews online. So our new vet was very knowledgeable and gave us more options than our previous vet. We decided to do a barium just to make sure things were passing through correctly (even though he can poop/pee fine). She went through every xray with us and it showed that it went through just fine in the right time. So no problems there. That was $600, so luckily we are using the payment plan. But at least now we have some peace of mind with that! They also did a blood test that showed what we already know, that the levels in his pancreas are a little higher than usual. In the meantime, he is on prescription hills Z/D, which IS expensive, but he seems to be doing better on and a quarter of omeprazole antacid before bed. Yesterday he did well, no vomiting, but only a small amount this morning. So fingers crossed that he can gain some weight and stop vomiting πŸ™‚

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #48595 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    Hi sue…
    I have put off commenting because I feel so defeated. Chewy still vomited on the NV raw, but I may have not given enough to him to test if it really worked. He only had a small bags worth. I don’t know how long he has to be on something to see if it really works. Lately he has been on a canned Nutro “limited ingredient” for a week and still vomits on it, but it’s to tide him over until we can get him into a 2nd vet (money is limited right now unfortunately) but we are planning to go within the next 1-2 weeks. All his poos have been normal, luckily. We tried Honest Kitchen Veal, the really expensive $60 box and he wouldn’t even go near it. Our original vet wants him back on RX, but I don’t see the point if it never helped. These are some results from his last bloodwork:

    “the lipase, one of the two pancreatic enzymes, is slightly elevated so recommend feeding the prescription intestinal diet as already planned to help control any pancreatic inflammation that may occur with feeding other fat sources”

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47449 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    Losul, thank you for your post. Chewy’s umbilical hernia is very small. The reason why it hasn’t been done yet is because when he went in to get him spayed/neutered a few months ago, they forgot to do it. It was on the list of things to be done, but I guess they spaced and forgot. They said they were going to do it for free for us since they made a mistake. My boyfriend has said multiple times that he wondered if the hernia was causing vomiting, but the vet says no, that isn’t why. Yesterday he was only on the NV Instinct Raw and he didn’t puke this morning, so that’s good. I agree I wanted the surgery done a long time ago :/

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47392 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    I’d have to ask my vet. The blood test we did on Thursday came back today and they said his pancreatic fluids are elevated…they didn’t say it’s pancreatitis, but I don’t know what to do from here.

    They want him back on the RX food, but last time we tried that he just vomited it all up (dry). Unless we try wet and see how he does on that. ahhhh πŸ™

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    Lisa C
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    I used a measuring cup, but just to be sure I also used a scale. I’m so bad at numbers and such, so I wanted to make sure I didn’t give him too much. I don’t have a lot of experience with having to measure out food. My last dog just ate wet food daily and had no issues, so this is a whole new thing for me with Chewy and his food issues. He LOVES the food. I mixed it with the Nutro like you said, and he was picking out the NV and eating it and pushing the Nutro aside. but now he has eaten all of it and I can hear him slurping some water. So far today he has not puked at all (after being only on Nutro yesterday) which is a miracle. Thank you for your help.

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47334 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    Thank you, I have a scale out right now trying to measure it. Should I feed it to him as is, or should I put water in it? The bag says I can do either one. So many questions, sorry!

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47332 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    I have, yes :/ I went to Pet Club today and I had no idea which NV to get. They had so many different kinds, my mind was going crazy. I don’t even think I got the right one πŸ™

    This is what I got: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcQO_IOayN05-xZ2pOzDLuUJEGvbtKW-qASqGX2HOqW7qUTDXkeZpin6C_D4OhHWKUIy0e_UTF25&usqp=CAY

    is that wrong?

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47325 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    Hi sue,

    this pic is of a little chewy, he’s bigger now, about 8-9lbs? He was a super cute pup πŸ™‚ He does eat quickly, but whenever I fed him dry food I only gave him a little at a time so he wouldn’t scarf it all down. My mom told me to buy one of those feeding machines, but I don’t plan on giving him unlimited amounts of dry food. I also know at places like Target you can buy this thing that’s less than $5 that you put in the bowl and it helps control the food intake. He usually doesn’t vomit until the next morning. I gave him a good amount of Nutro wet last night, and he didn’t vomit at all this morning so far, which is crazy! I keep searching around my room because I just don’t believe it. He also had a healthy poop when I woke up. and I agree about our vet. They have no answers for us, only to keep buying expensive foods or pushing the endoscopy!

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47313 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    He didn’t keep it down, it seems because he’s still vomiting up some of that dry that we gave him the other day (when the vet made us feel awful and told us to). The little bit of pumpkin he got seemed to really help him make some healthy looking stools though. The last of this Nutro wet can will be given to him tomorrow morning, and then I head to the store to find the suggestion on here “nature’s variety – instinct raw”. How long will he need to be on that to see any real difference? 1-2 weeks?

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47305 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    Hi Jane, our next step is a different vet. I’m not sure about the CPL test to be honest. I just know all of his tests they decided to do have been negative. We feed twice a day, once in morning, once around dinnertime. Do you just use regular pepcid? is it a pill?

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47242 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    So sorry to hear that about your baby girl πŸ™ What are you currently feeding her?

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47239 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    he also had xrays, can’t remember if I wrote that in the OG post. Everything is negative.

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47238 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    I know what you mean, it’s just disheartening to know we’ve already spent a lot of money on him and usually when someone has to spend a lot on their pet regarding surgeries, they aren’t >1yr old. They’ve done two separate blood tests, two stool tests. I plan on trying the raw very soon. If anyone has brands/types they recommend, I’d love to try the same. Thank you.

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47191 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    I am definitely going to try it. Our vet has made us so mad, that at this point everything she says my boyfriend and I agree they’re price gauging us. Even for shots they way overcharge. They have not been helpful at all. She still wants to do the $1200 endoscopy. It’s not going to happen until we’ve exhausted everything else, and at that point we won’t be using that vet anyways. He’s less than a year old. why does he need super expensive exploratory surgery? we stopped the chicken a few days ago and today I’m just giving him the canned nutro, because it’s the only thing in recent memory that seems to work best. After this can, I will try the raw. I just need to make sure I buy the right stuff. Thank you all.

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47132 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    About the raw diet – vet also said no way. She highly does not recommend it, saying it isn’t FDA regulated and all this other honkey. I was still fuming from driving him all the way there, driving home, and then her calling and telling me they weren’t doing the surgery (couldn’t she tell us that while we were there?) so my head is a little foggy, but yeah she definitely said no. So far this AM he hasn’t puked, but he did poop a lot. Fingers crossed he makes it through the day without puking.

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47119 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    update: today we took Chewy to the vet to get his umbilical hernia removed, but the doc wouldn’t work on him when i told her he was still vomiting. The BF and I want to get a new vet. They did some MORE blood work (seems useless anymore) that we will get the results for tomorrow. Today was the first day in a long time that we gave him A LOT of dry food. My vet said he was so skinny he looked like he was in a concentration camp. Those were her words. Made me feel awful, like I don’t care about my dog. when he’s vomiting every day, of course he’s not going to gain weight! sigh! Now that he ate so much today, his stomach looks big. Will be interesting to see how much he vomits in the morning.

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    Lisa C
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    I am going to the vet tomorrow to have Chewy’s umbilical hernia removed. When I go, I will inquire about IBD, and hiatal hernia/prilosec. I also wouldn’t mind trying the nature’s variety premade raw. I just am not sure what exactly to look for. Does petsmart carry it?

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #47016 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    Our Chewy actually has an umbilical hernia that he will be getting removed sometime in the next week, but our vet told us that had nothing to do with the vomiting. I don’t know, maybe she’s wrong. Holly, our chewy has no other symptoms either. He acts totally normal! I’m writing this stuff down so I can talk to the vet about it. Prilosec sounds promising if things don’t get better.

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #46971 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    I stopped feeding him a lot of dry maybe a month or so ago. He’s maybe 9lbs? I haven’t given him any dry the last two days, just cooked chicken to try and neutralize his stomach. A biopsy may be our next step. I also remembered that we never actually tried the RX WET, just dry. Not sure if that would make any difference.

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #46890 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    I will take all of this into consideration! Thank you!

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #46880 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    I feed him once in the morning, and once around dinnertime. I don’t measure out how much I give him, but I try not to give too much or too little, if that makes any sense :/

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #46876 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    Thank you, we will experiment with S&C after I spend a couple days giving him some cooked chicken πŸ™‚

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #46874 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    Betsy, the vomit in the morning is before any meals. It’s usually chunky, and a short time later sometimes comes the bile – yellow and/or frothy. Does anyone have a suggestion of brand for raw?

    and thank you, Sue!

    in reply to: Desperate for help! Vomits every day :( #46867 Report Abuse
    Lisa C
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    Thanks for letting me know about the dry! I will try the ACV. Do I just feed him with a spoon, and is it okay if I give it to him with cooked chicken?

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