Boxer IBD/ boxer colitis - really need help

mokkurboxer

Boxer Pal
Hey there all,

I'll try my best to write this in english, Me and my boxer dog live in Iceland - with not much experiance to his condition.

This will be long.. Thanks for reading :) It all began when he swallowed a ball (he was 2 years then with no problems like this before) that was too big for him to get rid off by himself, so it had to be removed with surgery. Surgery went fine and my boy recovered. But had difficulty with eating when we put him back on his dry food ( after few days on wet food from Hills vet diet). He started vomiting and had a little loose stool. After many tries of different dry kibble and all sorts of stomach/acid medication (steroids seemed to work) we put him on raw diet. And wow that worked immediately! Now he is 5 years old and has been sick every now and then. His symptons are vomiting, stomach noises, caughing, nausia and depression. It always starts with him drooling and licking everything he can. Then the nausia starts, and so comes the vomit ( sometimes he vomits food, sometimes bile) . He doesnt want to eat when he is in that condition - but when he finally eats, he gets so much better. He often tries to eat something outside when he is like this exspecially grass - and usually becomes even more sick then. Prednisolone steroids seems to help him, thats the only thing i have tried that has worked. It just seems like he is getting worse these days, and we are not able to control it as well as we used to :( it makes me so sad and I dont really know what to do.. I wanna help him but I dont want him to live and suffer in pain. The pain is very bad - and becoming more often. He is the best dog in the world, i would do anything for him. The vets here dont know a lot about this, so I ask for adwise and hope for the best <3 thanks so much.
 

mokkurboxer

Boxer Pal
I also want to add... He rearly has loose stools. Usually he poops 2-3 times per walk, hard stools. Sometimes the last poop is a little loose, but not much. This always has me confused about his diagnosion/condition - ibd/colitis. His main sympton has never been loose stool. Vomiting, drooling, caughing, stomach noises/acids and stuff like that are much more common.
 

silly24boxer

Super Boxer
Try dividing up his feeding times to 3 times a day plus snack before bed. The key is to feed more often. I had a boxer like this also. Make sure his he always has food in his stomach. Once there isn't any food left my boxer boy would do the same things as your. Maybe also get a blood panel done and check for pancreatitis also. It took years to figure out that my boxer boy had a mild form of pancreatitis also and slowly it can effect other parts of his body.
 
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mokkurboxer

Boxer Pal
Try dividing up his feeding times to 3 times a day plus snack before bed. The key is to feed more often. I had a boxer like this also. Make sure his he always has food in his stomach. Once there isn't any food left my boxer boy would do the same things as your. Maybe also get a blood panel done and check for pancreatitis also. It took years to figure out that my boxer boy had a mild form of pancreatitis also and slowly it can effect other parts of his body.
Hi silly24boxer, I´m already feeding him small meals 4 times a day - I just forgot to mention that. If I wouldn't do that, he would be sick all the time. This is a big key in his wellness. His blood has been tested a few times, and always seems to be fine. He also had a X-ray and everything was fine there :/ But he is so far from being fine. He is sick !... we just treat him very well and know how to handle it. At his worst we give him steroids and he usually gets better quite soon after that. I'm just more worried about him now, he is getting worse and more often having stomach pain. It's so hard not really knowing what's wrong with him and if there is something more we could do or try....
 

silly24boxer

Super Boxer
Please check the kidney levels and for pancreatitis. It turned out my sole full boxer Gauge had pancreatitis since he was a pup, he had all the same symptoms as your boxer. No vet could figure it out, I had been to a lot of different vets. Gauge had an ACL issue, I took him to a specialist, we did surgery blood work only to discover he had stage 2 kidney disease. We cancelled the surgery, started a kidney diet, he got really sick on the kidney food. The vet ran more test only to finally find out he had pancreatitis. They believe he had it for years and years therefore effecting his kidneys.
 

silly24boxer

Super Boxer
The reason I say check for pancreatitis is that if there is no food in the stomach the enzymes the pancreas produces starts to eat away at organs cause pain.
 
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