Thanks again for your advice and your quick reponse.



I would agree with you not to change anything if it was working. The diarrhea started when he was eating CA Natural Salmon and sweet potato and he was on no meds.



The flagyl stopped the diarrhea and he was totally normal. But 3 other medications were introduced for some reason and he seemed okay, but when his flagyl ran out (and he was still on the 3 other meds) that's when the diarrhea continued. So he went back on the flagyl.



This week he has just been on flagyl and eating IVD and seems to be doing great.



I'm supposed to be giving him budesonide once a day, in addition to the flagyl twice a day, but after reading what you said about steroids, I am hesitant to give it. Plus I read that budesonide is 15 times stronger than prednisone! Is that true?



I asked my vet for Sola's bloodwork and I finally got it. What she called "normal" results I would not consider normal. Which is why I think I'm going to stop the steroid.



There were high:

Creatinine = 2.4

A/G ratio = 1.1

MCH = 17.5



These were low:

RBC = 5.62

HGB = 9.2

HCT = 27.8

Globulin = 3.1

Absolute Neutrophil Seg = 2156



I don't really know what anything means except that the creatinine is a measure of the kidney function. His BUN was 27, which seems normal, right? What do you think of the other levels?

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