Whats wrong with my dog!

[juniorsmama]

Hi, today my 8 year old Golden spent the whole day at the vets office, I paid $630.00 and I do not have a diagnosis. My dog woke up this morning and refused his morning treat, that was the first red flag. I noticed he was walking funny, slow and with his back hunched. He was also whiny. It seemed from his posture that his tummy was painful so I checked the yard and found that he had some diarrhea too. I took him to the vet and they checked for pancreatitis, (neg) did a blood panel (normal) and abdominal x-rays (showed nothing). So I took him home after they gave him in antibiotic shot and pain relief. I was told to bring him back tomorrow if he is not better for an ultrasound. The vet said they may need to "cut" him open and look around. I don't like the sound of that. Anybody have any advice or ideas what might be wrong with him? If he swallowed a bone or chewed a stick and it splintered, would that show something in his x-ray? How should that be treated? Its the only thing I can think of at this point. Thank you

[Margot49]

Good news!  Hope he continues to improve.
Thanks

[juniorsmama]

He's so much better today! He's on some tummy meds for the next few days and a chicken and rice diet. He must have eaten something that caused all this. I'm so relieved, it was so scary not knowing what was going on and if he would be ok. But, he's happy and wagging his tail. :-))))))

[Margot49]

Poor guy.  Hope they can figure out what us going on.
Good luck and please update.

[juniorsmama]

Well, he's not better today, I am taking him back this morning for the ultrasound. I was told not to feed him last night, he wasn't interested in eating anyway. He took a small drink of water this morning, I'm so worried about my boy.

[Margot49]

As I was reading this, my first guess was pancreatitis as symptoms sound typical.  
Possible something is stuck that isn't showing up on X-ray and maybe it will on an ultrasound.  
What instructions were you given as to feeding.

If he was still that way tomorrow. I think I would ask that the test for pancreatitis be repeated and ask your Vet if he is familiar with a TLI test.  Not sure what that would cost and would probably have to be sent out, adding more cost.  :-(

If he does  an ultrasound, and is good at interpreting them, he can check the pancreas too.

Hope you can get some answers.  Sorry, not much help as it could be any number of things going on.

Did they do a stool check?

Good luck and please keep us posted.  Poor guy.