Poor Pablo... his tummy's making those yucky noises again!

Hi everyone- well we are back from the vet's, and I know nothing more than when I walked in there. I just paid $52.00 dollars for NOTHING! The vet shot down every suggestion I had- stress induced colitis- "No you usually see more destruction, tearing up of things, so pouting when you leave is a lesser of two evils". IBS-"no you usually see diarrhea and/or vomiting", allergies- "no you will usually see again, vomiting or diarrhea", What about a blockage- "No because you wouldn't have this sporadic problem, and again vomiting and diarrhea". Since we never have diarrhea, and vomiting, he doesn't know. He said we will just have to do a lot of try this and try this. No blood work, no x-rays. He did prescribe Centrine to give to him at the onset of a flare-up. If this doesn't work then we'll try something else?! I am thinking more of a new vet, at least for a second opinion. Can anyone give me more info on IBS in dogs? What is the best food for a dog with IBS? He couldn't even tell me what food I should try with Pablo. Should I still keep him on the Innova EVO? I just want to cry, or scream, maybe both! Any advice?
Thanks for letting me VENT!

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Carrie

foods i (and the veterianrians i worked with previously)recomend for it (as i did have a dog with IBD and i will tell you that it can be IBD even if vomiting and diarrhea aren't present. they are just common side effects of IBD)

Pro Plan sensitive skin sensitive stomach formula (my girl did real well on this food)

royal canin has a bunch of great foods for sensitive stomach needs:

Intestinal GI 30

Sensitivity Control SC 24

and science diet prescription I/D. they don't like to use that long term but in some dogs they have to.

Eukanuba low residue

Purina veterinary diet EN

long post sorry

Pablo's Mommy said:

Thank you for the list of foods, I am going to rty to set up an appt. tomorrow with a new vet, how can he diagnose IBD? Does Pablos symptoms sound llike IBD? I hate the meds he gave us, Pablo just lays here. No noises anymore, but he seems so depressed! Just trying to get him to wag his little tail takes a lot of effort! Poor Guy!

Thank you so much for your help!

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when my tasha bird was in the kennel her stoamch was a mess. it was grumbling and one of the workers thought she was growling lol. they chalked it up to stress colitis (no vomiting or diarrhea just horrible tummy grumbling and seemed uncomfortable.) then i started working there and felt sorry for the poor girl so i adopted her and took her home, (she was eating I/D) i switched her over to regular senior science diet maintence. she did ok but her skin go0t real bad so we figured food allergy and i started her on IVD whitefish and potato and she did well on that. but shortly after she was uncomfortable again and her stomach was acting up (you don't know how many times i thought my pointer had bloat! it was nerve wracking!) so i got a blood workup done on her (for allergy testing and prespay bloodwork, she was 8 years old and i thought better late than never with the spay) everything came back within a few days and i found out what she was allergic to and one of the cell counts was off and it's a common factor when diagnosing IBD (nate could tell you which one i can't remember) so we had her scoped to find out if that was indeed the problem and it was. she never had diarrhea, ever. and she vomited a lot only after the spay due to the anesthesia and carprofen. the whitefish and potato from ivd was a great food, but was expensive for me to get. tasha had a very fast metabloism and in order to hold her weight up to a perfect 55 she was eating as much as 7 1/2 cups of that food a day (it's a limited ingredient food and she also had anxiety issues that made her metabloism really fast.) i didn't want to change her to another food altogether cause she did so good with the fish i talked to the dr and told him about the sensitive skin and stomach pro plan formula and he said lets give it a go (she had skin issues as well remember.) with diet and treatment for the IBD she did great, but she couldn't eat anything else but her food. no treats, no greenies, no nothing. not even the toothpaste. and once i found a food that she did great on i stayed with it. there was one treat that she could actually have, it was put out by IVD select care treats, they were carrot and apple based treats. but it was given rarely i didn't want to take the chance. good luck with the other vet :wave: keep me posted, i am curious to find out now.