kodicals
December 7th, 2004, 12:41 PM
well, i don't know if this will help any... but i wanted to hear what others had to say about this and maybe someone else has experienced it.
i have a 16 year old cat who has recently had her front left leg amputated due to these sores that kept forming. no matter how much steriods or prescriptions we tried to stop it, it wouldn't go away. eventually the leg had to be amputated. they did tests on it however, and could not figure out what was wrong with it. it was eating through tendons and was starting to see to her bone. it wasn't cancer, and the lab did not know what it could be. we figured that amputating it was the best solution after months and months of trying to figure out what was wrong.
she was a lot happier when we did so, but right before we did, her nose started to get the disease. the vet thought at first that it was just irritated from when she first started licking it and before he had to wear one of those cones around her neck so she couldn't lick herself.
it has proceeded to get worse. she doesnt have a nose now. Her septum is completely gone, and you can actually see up the two airways. its only 3 weeks later too. they ran more tests and couldnt figure it out, so we took her to a specialist that travels around the US. she thought it might be 2 different really rare diseases. one was from some type of worm that birds pick up and is in their dropping that perhaps Gypsy somehow became in contact with. another is a type of spore from a plant. she said shes seen it twice in cats and once in dogs (over the whole U.S.). The first one came out negative, and the second one most likely will not be it because it has the ability to spread to other cats and humans. And we have 5 cats, none of the others have had problems, nor any of my family members.
they ran tests on the rest of her to check her health. The thing is, they said she was one of the healthiest cats they've ever seen at her age. her heart and lungs are in the shape of a kitten. so thats even more encouragement NOT to put her to sleep. But we don't know what this is, and we don't know where to go from here. We've spent almost 3,000 dollars on tests and doctors trying to figure out what she has. We don't know where to go to next.
Has anyone ever experienced a disease like this? can anyone give me advice or help?
i have a 16 year old cat who has recently had her front left leg amputated due to these sores that kept forming. no matter how much steriods or prescriptions we tried to stop it, it wouldn't go away. eventually the leg had to be amputated. they did tests on it however, and could not figure out what was wrong with it. it was eating through tendons and was starting to see to her bone. it wasn't cancer, and the lab did not know what it could be. we figured that amputating it was the best solution after months and months of trying to figure out what was wrong.
she was a lot happier when we did so, but right before we did, her nose started to get the disease. the vet thought at first that it was just irritated from when she first started licking it and before he had to wear one of those cones around her neck so she couldn't lick herself.
it has proceeded to get worse. she doesnt have a nose now. Her septum is completely gone, and you can actually see up the two airways. its only 3 weeks later too. they ran more tests and couldnt figure it out, so we took her to a specialist that travels around the US. she thought it might be 2 different really rare diseases. one was from some type of worm that birds pick up and is in their dropping that perhaps Gypsy somehow became in contact with. another is a type of spore from a plant. she said shes seen it twice in cats and once in dogs (over the whole U.S.). The first one came out negative, and the second one most likely will not be it because it has the ability to spread to other cats and humans. And we have 5 cats, none of the others have had problems, nor any of my family members.
they ran tests on the rest of her to check her health. The thing is, they said she was one of the healthiest cats they've ever seen at her age. her heart and lungs are in the shape of a kitten. so thats even more encouragement NOT to put her to sleep. But we don't know what this is, and we don't know where to go from here. We've spent almost 3,000 dollars on tests and doctors trying to figure out what she has. We don't know where to go to next.
Has anyone ever experienced a disease like this? can anyone give me advice or help?