Fingers crossed - a minor breakthrough

[debih]

I have tried the stress free way - and so far so good.

I gave her the antepsin and waited an hour (the vet had told me half an hour but a bit of googling recommends giving it either one hour before food or two hours after food) and haven't given the antacid. I plonked the bowl of food down on the kitchen step (she stood in the dining room so the food was elevated by around 9 inches from the floor) and just left her to it. I left the door open so that she could go out if she needed to without me having to watch her.

At 6pm she kept a whole bowl down - no trying to vomit, nothing. I left a bowl down and then at about an hour later she ate that and promptly regurgitated it - just food, no white foam. But that is different to what has been happening - she has been having the medicine and 30 minutes later she has eaten and the food has stayed down for about 5 minutes and then come back up, surrounded in this horrible white slimey foam stuff. I assume that the antepsin had worn off, making her regurgitate.

So 8.50pm I give her more antepsin and just over 50 minutes later she comes looking for food so she has anther bowl. She ate most of that and then had the sick face (yes, she has an "I'm going to puke" face) and went outside and paced for about 5 minutes but kept it down.

I had a long chat with the vet this evening who has said that it is fine for me to stop the antacid if I feel that is making her sick, although he doesn't think it should do but said you never know - each animal is different. (When she had the camera down we had stopped all medication for about 5 days before, including the antacid. Then the vet never told us to start the antacid again when we picked her up from the camera op so she was just on the antepsin. Three days later at a check up they told me to start the antacid again, 2 days after that the vomiting started). Also to keep her life as normal as possible and try leaving her food down for her to help herself to if that is what she is used to doing.

He said if she continues to be sick after a few more days time to contact him as he would like to get her back in and start again.

So I am going to plod on with the antepsin one hour before food, no stressing over her whilst she eats, back to normal routines and no antacid and see how she goes. I was wanting to try to get her off the ID food and onto a different one but that will have to wait as don't want to do too much too soon.

I do feel a little happier this evening - it was nice to see her keep down almost 1/4 of a tin of food at each sitting so almost 1/2 tin gone this evening plus just under 1/4 this morning (although some of that did come back up).

[lissie]

Fingers crossed for little Millie
Sounds more promising.
Our Milo (rip) had sicky episodes and was always worse if i was there fussing about.
My OH used to feed him then ignore him and he always got better quicker
than with me.
I think they do pick up on you being worried.
Get well soon Millie girl

lissie

[JoM]

That does sound promising Deb, fingers crossed this will be the right routine for her

[meriad]

Go with your gut instict Debih... as you say every animal is different and will react differently to a medicine. What may work for some won't work for others. As a matter of interest have you ever read up about the antacid they've given Millie to see if there are any side effects that match what you are experiencing.

fingers crossed the routine you're now implementing will work for Millie. Actually the elevated eating thing is also a fairly known factor to prevent nausea; maybe invest in some raised bowls for her generally. My brother has one of these for their lab/collie cross http://www.zooplus.co.uk/shop/dogs/dog_ ... ands/13179 and it works really well.

Fusses to your gorgeous girl and fingers crossed it's onwards and upwards from here on x

[Kaz]

Oh that sounds so promising!!!!!

Loads of love to little Millie - come on girl, we are all rooting for you!

[JoM]

Hope that Millie's having a good day today xx

[Ally]

Oh that sounds so promising!!!!!

Loads of love to little Millie - come on girl, we are all rooting for you!

Aren't we just! Come on Millie.

[debih]

A very minor breathrough - back to normal today. Vomitting after food.

I've just had a really, really long chat with the vet and am waiting for them to ring me back as I think she will be going back in again tonight.

She was really, really subdued last night and this morning and didn't even go and see the girls when they came downstairs - which is unheard of. Also, she really didn't want her food this morning although she did eat it (and then bought it up again).

She had a temperature on Saturday although nothing was done about it and the vet I spoke to (who is very familiar with Millie) said she would like to get her in today to check that, if nothing else. But that they would probably keep her in to put a camera down again tomorrow to see if the ulcers have gone to her stomach (they were only in the last 10 cm of the oesophogus when the camera went down before). And she mentioned bypassing the stomach with food for a while as an option.

She wants to speak to Dan, the vet that saw Millie on Saturday and they will put a plan together for her and ring me back later today.

Will update tonight!

[meriad]

Oh no Debih - what a worry. I really hope that between the two of them they come up with something because this really cannot go on much longer.

Maybe Millie needs to be admitted for a few days so she can tube fed and monitored - and also to give you a break; you need one as much as she does.


((((hug)))))) just not sure what else to suggest or do

[JoM]

Poor Millie