I'm just short of a year with my IBD baby. This is new territory, and I'm still trying to establish what is 'normal' for my Dutch. I'd love to hear your experiences.
A short history: Adopted Dutch from a shelter. She's approximately 2-3 years old. Didn't know about the IBD until her first vomiting incident. What a shock that was! From happy little purrster to barfomatic in the blink of an eye. Now that we know it's IBD, (diagnosed via x-ray and barium study) we get the vomiting under control pretty quickly with a short course of presnisolone at 2.5mg twice per day.
After the first flareup, we've tried tapering off her dosage with varying levels of success before relapsing. She lasted 2 weeks at full withdrawal, a month at 2.5mg every other day, and until yesterday had gone 6 whole months without vomiting on 2.5mg/day. I'm very lucky she's so good about being pilled
. As usual, I'm doing a three-day course of 2.5mg twice a day to get things back under control, then I'll go back to what I consider her 'maintenance' dose of 2.5mg/day.
When she does have a flareup, she won't eat anything, and her upper GI tract can get irritated enough to cause violent vomiting every two hours, poor thing. Her current flareup started Friday morning, and is much less severe than past incidents.
For those of you more experienced - is this flareup / maintenance cycle common? Or should I be worried that something is worse since she managed to get barfy on what I considered a good maintenance dose?
Thanks everyone.
A short history: Adopted Dutch from a shelter. She's approximately 2-3 years old. Didn't know about the IBD until her first vomiting incident. What a shock that was! From happy little purrster to barfomatic in the blink of an eye. Now that we know it's IBD, (diagnosed via x-ray and barium study) we get the vomiting under control pretty quickly with a short course of presnisolone at 2.5mg twice per day.
After the first flareup, we've tried tapering off her dosage with varying levels of success before relapsing. She lasted 2 weeks at full withdrawal, a month at 2.5mg every other day, and until yesterday had gone 6 whole months without vomiting on 2.5mg/day. I'm very lucky she's so good about being pilled
When she does have a flareup, she won't eat anything, and her upper GI tract can get irritated enough to cause violent vomiting every two hours, poor thing. Her current flareup started Friday morning, and is much less severe than past incidents.
For those of you more experienced - is this flareup / maintenance cycle common? Or should I be worried that something is worse since she managed to get barfy on what I considered a good maintenance dose?
Thanks everyone.