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My 4 year old DSH, Grumpy Gus (not his real name, but it's fitting these days 
), has had some issues with watery diarrhea and vomiting since finishing a 10-day course of Clavamox for a herpesvirus-induced URI. He has had this medication about two years ago with no issues, but this time, it seems to have set his GI tract off something fierce. My vet told me to increase his probiotic from once a day to twice a day, and add in Cerenia and Prilosec once day to help with the vomiting and acid production, which we've been doing for nearly five days now. He hasn't thrown up, praise the lord, but he's still got really loose stools, is increasingly gassy, grumpy about being picked up like his stomach is causing him some discomfort, and will lick his lips after he meows like he'd throw up if not for the cerenia preventing it. Prior to all of this, he had been losing slight amount of weight (think he went from something like 8.7 to 8.3 in a couple week time period) and the vet said if he loses any more weight, we'd need to take action. I'd also noticed that while he isn't urinating more than normal in terms of frequency, it DOES seem to be a strong stream when he does go to the point that it sometimes sprays outside of his enclosed litterbox (I do not think he is doing this on purpose; He just seems to pee high, which was the reason for getting an enclosed litterbox in the first place, to keep him from inadvertently peeing on the walls or carpet. This litterbox from Chewy is the one that we've been using)
The longer this goes on, the more symptoms develop and the more I grow concerned that this isn't as simple as just having an irritated GI tract from the Clavamox. My boyfriend lost his job when our region shut down from the pandemic back in April and I am disabled with our only income right now being my meager disability payments - We just can't afford extensive treatments for Grumpy Gus right now beyond some basic testing like blood work or urine testing.
Do any of you have an idea of what this might be? I'm terrified it'll be something like Lymphoma or cancer of some kind that will end with us having to put Grumpy Gus down because we just can't afford extensive treatment (and I don't want him to be in pain, or get shipped off to a shelter or rescue where he'd likely wind up euthanized anyway). The soonest we'd be able to get him in to the vet for blood work is Monday.
), has had some issues with watery diarrhea and vomiting since finishing a 10-day course of Clavamox for a herpesvirus-induced URI. He has had this medication about two years ago with no issues, but this time, it seems to have set his GI tract off something fierce. My vet told me to increase his probiotic from once a day to twice a day, and add in Cerenia and Prilosec once day to help with the vomiting and acid production, which we've been doing for nearly five days now. He hasn't thrown up, praise the lord, but he's still got really loose stools, is increasingly gassy, grumpy about being picked up like his stomach is causing him some discomfort, and will lick his lips after he meows like he'd throw up if not for the cerenia preventing it. Prior to all of this, he had been losing slight amount of weight (think he went from something like 8.7 to 8.3 in a couple week time period) and the vet said if he loses any more weight, we'd need to take action. I'd also noticed that while he isn't urinating more than normal in terms of frequency, it DOES seem to be a strong stream when he does go to the point that it sometimes sprays outside of his enclosed litterbox (I do not think he is doing this on purpose; He just seems to pee high, which was the reason for getting an enclosed litterbox in the first place, to keep him from inadvertently peeing on the walls or carpet. This litterbox from Chewy is the one that we've been using)The longer this goes on, the more symptoms develop and the more I grow concerned that this isn't as simple as just having an irritated GI tract from the Clavamox. My boyfriend lost his job when our region shut down from the pandemic back in April and I am disabled with our only income right now being my meager disability payments - We just can't afford extensive treatments for Grumpy Gus right now beyond some basic testing like blood work or urine testing.
Do any of you have an idea of what this might be? I'm terrified it'll be something like Lymphoma or cancer of some kind that will end with us having to put Grumpy Gus down because we just can't afford extensive treatment (and I don't want him to be in pain, or get shipped off to a shelter or rescue where he'd likely wind up euthanized anyway). The soonest we'd be able to get him in to the vet for blood work is Monday.
