For those who don't know Gracie's story, in summary, we are trying to adjust her thyroid meds now. She came to me on November 1st on what I thought to be a very high dose of Methimazole - 7.5mg 2x a day. She was gaining weight nicely, which she needed, and there were very high vet bills with Bugsy and her surgery, so I had to wait to take her for a blood T-4 blood test (which her new vet said was ok and safe to wait).
A month/few weeks ago I took her in for a a blood test - sure enough, she was way over medicated... Her new vet lowered her dose to 5mg 2x a day.
Then last Friday I took her in for yet another T-4 test. She was still overmedicated. The vet again Lowered her meds to 2.5mg 2x a day.
I am furious with the old vet, at the same time just glad that she is not seen by him anymore. She will have another test in 3 weeks.
Now onto Bugsy:
He continues to have formed poop!
After months of daily diarrhea, many different medications, on their own and combined, LOTs of vet visits, tests, a visit to the e-vet, etc, DiaGel, a diarrhea gel recommended by TCS member Kody's mom (and approved by my vet), finally did it! He was on it a week twice a day, more precisely, 6 1/2 days, but we had to stop for 2 1/2 days in the middle to wait for shipping as we froze here. He had a total of 13 doses. 24 hours after the second dose there was a HUGE difference.
His last dose was five days ago, and so far so good! He does not have solid poop, but it is formed. Warning: I will get graphic now, so if you get grossed out by poop stop here. His poop is rope-shape, but relatively soft. Nothing like diarrhea, but if he steps on it, it will get smashed. If he doesn't it keeps the form. During these four months, the best he ever got was a cow-pile, never formed poop. Whenever we stopped a medication, by the next day he was right back to explosive watery liquid diarrhea. So, this is truly dramatic.
FYI, Bugsy never in his life had solid poop. He always had formed, but soft poop, kind of what he has now. So he is now "at his normal". His stomatitis meds do help a lot with it, but he is out of it until his next liver panel in March, so I can't count with that help now. If his liver numbers are ok then, he will go back on the meds.
In discussing with his vet, all his history, his tests and the fact that he never had solid poop indicate that he might have a very mild form of IBD (which is in line with his other vet's beliefs), but we can control that with Diet, fiber and probiotics like we did in the past, especially since he did not respond to prednizolone.
So, this looooooooong post is to say that........... (unless things change) He is fine and........ finally dismissed of any further treatment until next month when we go in for the liver panel! yey!
A month/few weeks ago I took her in for a a blood test - sure enough, she was way over medicated... Her new vet lowered her dose to 5mg 2x a day.
Then last Friday I took her in for yet another T-4 test. She was still overmedicated. The vet again Lowered her meds to 2.5mg 2x a day.
I am furious with the old vet, at the same time just glad that she is not seen by him anymore. She will have another test in 3 weeks.
Now onto Bugsy:
He continues to have formed poop!
His last dose was five days ago, and so far so good! He does not have solid poop, but it is formed. Warning: I will get graphic now, so if you get grossed out by poop stop here. His poop is rope-shape, but relatively soft. Nothing like diarrhea, but if he steps on it, it will get smashed. If he doesn't it keeps the form. During these four months, the best he ever got was a cow-pile, never formed poop. Whenever we stopped a medication, by the next day he was right back to explosive watery liquid diarrhea. So, this is truly dramatic.
FYI, Bugsy never in his life had solid poop. He always had formed, but soft poop, kind of what he has now. So he is now "at his normal". His stomatitis meds do help a lot with it, but he is out of it until his next liver panel in March, so I can't count with that help now. If his liver numbers are ok then, he will go back on the meds.
In discussing with his vet, all his history, his tests and the fact that he never had solid poop indicate that he might have a very mild form of IBD (which is in line with his other vet's beliefs), but we can control that with Diet, fiber and probiotics like we did in the past, especially since he did not respond to prednizolone.
So, this looooooooong post is to say that........... (unless things change) He is fine and........ finally dismissed of any further treatment until next month when we go in for the liver panel! yey!
