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- What Type of Doodle(s) do you have? What are their names? Tell us about your doodle(s) or any other pets you have!
- Goldendoodle. Marty and Penny
- Where did you get your doodle(s)?
- Breeder
- Why did you choose a doodle rather than another breed or mix?
- Allergies
- What are Your Favorite Things to Do With Your Doodles?
- Snuggle
- Does your doodle(s) shed?
- Nope!
- Who grooms your doodle(s)?
- Me
- Relationship Status:
- Married
- Would you be willing to Dog Sit on occasion for other DoodleKisses members? (You are NOT committing to anything by saying yes - you are just saying you might be willing to do this if you were acquainted with the other member and the circumstances were right.)
- Yes
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If Marty had giardia as a puppy or in the past and was treated with metronidazole (flagyl) and not given any probiotics along with the antibiotics, that is often a trigger for digestive disease including IBD. Also dogs who ingest foreign objects (socks, etc) can be prone to it. But often, it is idiopathic and no known cause can be found.
Here is a tool you can use to find an IMS in your area:
http://vetspecialists.com/
And here is some information about IBD: http://www.2ndchance.info/inflambowel.htm
Not IBS, IBD. Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which is an incurable immune-mediated disease of the lining of the digestive tract. (IBS is irritable bowel syndrome, which is basically just a nervous stomach.)
Marty needs to be in the hands of a veterinary internal medicine specialist. GP vets do not have enough training or experience to diagnose or treat IBD. And if your vet really said "IBS", that's proof right there. This is not a criticism of your vet, he/she may be a very good vet, but they are not specialists in every disease that a dog can have.
IBD can only be definitively diagnosed via an endoscopy/colonoscopy, which must be done under anesthesia by an internist. But there are other tests that can point you in that direction. Ultrasounds are almost always done. There is a special blood test that many GP vets don't even know about, a GI panel, that must be sent to Texas A & M, takes about a week to get results, and measures only cobalamin, folate, and the TLi ratio. I'd be willing to bet your vet didn;t run that. (That one test alone costs about $200 above any other charges for blood work.) I hope that you have insurance, because all this is very expensive. The disease can be managed, but it takes a lot of time and patience to get the right combination of diet and meds, and the treatment is for life. The treatment varies tremendously, depending on which part of the GI tract is affected and what type of inflammatory cells are found. This is why you cannot treat it successfully without a scope, and you must have an IMS to do the scope.