Kelly & Logan
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Yesterday:
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Logan is still eating well. We did not give him the appy stimulant last night. We took him to the vet this morning for blood work - waiting to hear those results. I think we're all hoping things look good and that Logan's good days will continue. It seems like we have a set back every time he seems to be improving.
Dr Lisa was very helpful last night. She said that she doesn't put a lot of stock in the biopsies since it's such a small area of tissue. She said that Logan's symptoms do not match with moderate IBD. She feels like there's a missing piece to this puzzle - something I've felt for a while. If he does have only moderate IBD, why doesn't he respond to the treatments? She said Leukeran is a very powerful drug. She said it's also possible that he just has very severe IBD and the tissue samples were simply not from the most affected areas. She recommends that we test him for Acromegaly if his insulin resistance doesn't resolve as we decrease the pred - something we were planning on doing, anyway.
She highly recommends we put him on the raw diet but cook the outside of the chicken thighs to kill the surface bacteria. She said he needs to lose weight (lose the fat) but also build muscle mass along his back area. She said his diet needs to be at least 40% protein. She told us to remove 75% of the skin from the chicken thighs to achieve a lower fat diet for him. She said the extra fat he's carrying (around his upper abdomen and chest areas) can also cause insulin resistance.
She said he's too young to have this many issues and thinks the diet will help immensely. She said that if he does well on the diet, she would start to wean him off of the Leukeran after 30 good days. She agreed that we need to get him off of the pred asap.
So, we're going to get some chicken thighs and make her recipe w/o the eggs and bones and with double the salmon oil (a natural anti-inflammatory) to see if he'll eat it. If he does, we'll get the meat grinder and start using the bones. She also suggested we order the frozen ground rabbit. She said we'd have to cook it (just not well done) for now and then add the supplements. Basically, as long as the supplements are not cooked, we're serving him a complete diet. She does prefer all raw but with his immune system being compromised, we need to be extra careful. So, the chicken can be about 20% cooked since it's not ground, but the rabbit needs to be cooked more since the meat is ground.
She was very surprised that our internist hadn't put more emphasis on the proper diet. I did explain that we have had a lot of trouble getting him to eat anything and that we had tried some better diets but with little success.
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=13017
Logan is still eating well. We did not give him the appy stimulant last night. We took him to the vet this morning for blood work - waiting to hear those results. I think we're all hoping things look good and that Logan's good days will continue. It seems like we have a set back every time he seems to be improving.
Dr Lisa was very helpful last night. She said that she doesn't put a lot of stock in the biopsies since it's such a small area of tissue. She said that Logan's symptoms do not match with moderate IBD. She feels like there's a missing piece to this puzzle - something I've felt for a while. If he does have only moderate IBD, why doesn't he respond to the treatments? She said Leukeran is a very powerful drug. She said it's also possible that he just has very severe IBD and the tissue samples were simply not from the most affected areas. She recommends that we test him for Acromegaly if his insulin resistance doesn't resolve as we decrease the pred - something we were planning on doing, anyway.
She highly recommends we put him on the raw diet but cook the outside of the chicken thighs to kill the surface bacteria. She said he needs to lose weight (lose the fat) but also build muscle mass along his back area. She said his diet needs to be at least 40% protein. She told us to remove 75% of the skin from the chicken thighs to achieve a lower fat diet for him. She said the extra fat he's carrying (around his upper abdomen and chest areas) can also cause insulin resistance.
She said he's too young to have this many issues and thinks the diet will help immensely. She said that if he does well on the diet, she would start to wean him off of the Leukeran after 30 good days. She agreed that we need to get him off of the pred asap.
So, we're going to get some chicken thighs and make her recipe w/o the eggs and bones and with double the salmon oil (a natural anti-inflammatory) to see if he'll eat it. If he does, we'll get the meat grinder and start using the bones. She also suggested we order the frozen ground rabbit. She said we'd have to cook it (just not well done) for now and then add the supplements. Basically, as long as the supplements are not cooked, we're serving him a complete diet. She does prefer all raw but with his immune system being compromised, we need to be extra careful. So, the chicken can be about 20% cooked since it's not ground, but the rabbit needs to be cooked more since the meat is ground.
She was very surprised that our internist hadn't put more emphasis on the proper diet. I did explain that we have had a lot of trouble getting him to eat anything and that we had tried some better diets but with little success.
