11 days ago I started the new regimen. Slippery Elm Bark (SEB) twice a week, and half a large egg yolk four times a week. One regurgitation, 7 days after the start of this regimen, and it has now been 4 days since that regurgitation.
This past Sunday I took them out for the first time in 3 weeks. I gave SK the SEB 45 minutes before we went outside. As usual she ate grass and did not bring it back up. Since then, she has been okay, no regurgitaion or indication of upset tummy, but she hadn't passed the grass either.
Then this morning:
This morning, even before her pre-meal SK was telling me she wanted me to go with her to the litter box. Usually she doesn't take me down to watch her pee until after she has had her pre-meal. How it went was: She actually came to me in bed after she heard me wake up. Unless she is already sleeping with me, she doens't usually do that. I didn't get up right away, so she left, but then she came back while I was doing my exercises (I do sit ups and leg lifts in bed before getting up) which was unusual for her, usually she sits in the window watching the birds eat breakfast, in the morning before I get out of bed.
Then, when I got up she started urging me to follow her down to the litter boxes.
I dutifully followed her down, and she got up on the platform. I watcher her and she didn't pee. Instead she sat there for a moment, and I suddenly realized she had that look, like she was going to hurl. I was mystified because it had only been 7 hours since her last meal, surely she couldn't be feeling sick and full of bile already? I tilted a litter box toward her to catch it, thinking a lot of liquid was going to come up.
Instead, with what seemed like some effort, she brought up the wad of grass from Sunday, with a small mat of hair entwined in it! I was relieved to see it, frankly, and, the best part was, there was NO liquid. No bile indicating an over production of acid in her tummy, just the wad of grass with a little fur.
Then she proceeded to have a very big pee, and a normal poop. A very productive morning for her!
It's odd about the grass coming up 2 days later. So it sat in her stomach for almost 48 hours, but she didn't puke or show any indication of wanting to, in all that time. In fact the only sign of discomfort I saw at all since they were outside on Sunday is late last night after her final meal (which contains her probiotic) she burped. I did give her two pieces of freeze dried chicken breast after the burp to soak up any acid that might be lingering.
So, is this an improvement? I have no idea. But we'll keep on. She is in the second week of her off cycle with the pepcid. I am going to do another round of that, (2 weeks on, 2 weeks off) while continuing with the egg yolk and SEB.