TrickyZodiac13
December 21st, 2004, 03:34 PM
Please help. We're going broke from the vet bills and we still have no answers...I'm really frightened that something in our home is making our cats sick...or is it just a coincidence? We have 5 cats - Ghengis (a 16 year old Burmese with Thyroid disease), Freya (a 15 year old short hair with Thyroid disease), Loki ( an 11 year old long hair, who has disturbingly bad teeth and terrible grooming habits...always gets matted, despite our continuous combing), Mischief (an 8 year old longhair, who was perfectly healthy until yesterday) and a 8 week old kitten named Spooky ( who is in great health, seemingly anyway).
Ghengis and Freya have had their ups and downs since being diagnosed with Thyroid disease - they both take Tapazole daily....Ghengis gets a total of 10mgs daily and Freya gets 2.5mgs daily.
The past few weeks have been extremely frusterating and I can barely sleep at night form being afraid that I will have to run one of the cats into the Pet Emergency Room during the night.
I would also like to mention that, this summer, we found that one of our cats (Onion) had mysteriously passed away one night...he was only 12 and in generally well health. It looked like he had a seizure or something. Very sad to say the least.
A few weeks ago I noticed that a few of the cats were throwing up more frequently than normal. Ghengis and Freya would often throw up, but this was way beyond normal. Ghengis seemed to be eating, as normal but was a bit more lethargic than normal. Freya started to get very ill...she began throwing up blood and clear liquid and was urinating alot, also became extemely dehydrated.
So fearing that it was kidney failure or the thyroid disease gone awry, I took her into the vet for some tests. My vet and I were completely shocked when the T4 and kidney test came back absolutley fine. He was sure it was kidney failure, as well. We put her on an Antibiotic and baby food for two weeks, as well as, having me inject her with Sub Q fluids nighlty. Freya has started to get better, but the past two days she's been throwing up again...no blood, just some food. I'm so worried about her though, she's very fragile. Ghengis still seems to not be feeling very well, but is holding his own. Loki seems fine other than needing to have some teeth pulled and to be detangled. Spooky the kitten is thriving and growing exeptionally well. Mischief, who is relatively young has always been healthy, is sick now too.
I had started to figure that maybe the cats somehow got a bug or something...the older ones seem to be having the most difficulty. I've thought maybe their illness-timing was a coincidence. I don't know.
Mischeif started to gag yesterday, ALOT! And he champs afterwards. Nothing significact is coming up though, occasioanly clear frothy vomit. He's depressed and skitzy.
Here's some things that I've noticed alot lately & it's very hard to tell which cat is doing what:
Clear, frothy vomit. (Ghengis, Freya & Mischief)
Listlessness in all of them, except the kitten.
Loose, mucousy stools (Ghengis & Freya)
Loss of coat quality (Ghengis, Freya & Loki)
Champing (Mischief)
Occasional to Fequent Vomiting of food (Freya and sometimes Ghengis)
They all are still eating and appear to be retaining (most) of their food and I see them drinking, some more than others. Everyone appears to be using the litterbox, too.
I'm just so confused. I was sure Freya's T4 would show something. I had even suspected Distemper from the kitten for a while, but she's fine and the vet said it wasn't that. Our vet is at a loss and we are literally going broke from all of the vet bills. We completely trust our vets and have significant faith in their practices abilities. I worked for them in High School and know that all of them are very good doctors. BUT, maybe there is something that they haven't thought about. All we do know is that our cats aren't doing too well health wise and we don't know what's causing this or how we can help them.
Do you think that something in our home could be making them all sick. I know that their symptoms are pretty general. But it's seems very odd that most of them are experiencing health isssues.
Any thoughts or ideas would be most welcome.
Thank-you for your time,
Truly.
Ghengis and Freya have had their ups and downs since being diagnosed with Thyroid disease - they both take Tapazole daily....Ghengis gets a total of 10mgs daily and Freya gets 2.5mgs daily.
The past few weeks have been extremely frusterating and I can barely sleep at night form being afraid that I will have to run one of the cats into the Pet Emergency Room during the night.
I would also like to mention that, this summer, we found that one of our cats (Onion) had mysteriously passed away one night...he was only 12 and in generally well health. It looked like he had a seizure or something. Very sad to say the least.
A few weeks ago I noticed that a few of the cats were throwing up more frequently than normal. Ghengis and Freya would often throw up, but this was way beyond normal. Ghengis seemed to be eating, as normal but was a bit more lethargic than normal. Freya started to get very ill...she began throwing up blood and clear liquid and was urinating alot, also became extemely dehydrated.
So fearing that it was kidney failure or the thyroid disease gone awry, I took her into the vet for some tests. My vet and I were completely shocked when the T4 and kidney test came back absolutley fine. He was sure it was kidney failure, as well. We put her on an Antibiotic and baby food for two weeks, as well as, having me inject her with Sub Q fluids nighlty. Freya has started to get better, but the past two days she's been throwing up again...no blood, just some food. I'm so worried about her though, she's very fragile. Ghengis still seems to not be feeling very well, but is holding his own. Loki seems fine other than needing to have some teeth pulled and to be detangled. Spooky the kitten is thriving and growing exeptionally well. Mischief, who is relatively young has always been healthy, is sick now too.
I had started to figure that maybe the cats somehow got a bug or something...the older ones seem to be having the most difficulty. I've thought maybe their illness-timing was a coincidence. I don't know.
Mischeif started to gag yesterday, ALOT! And he champs afterwards. Nothing significact is coming up though, occasioanly clear frothy vomit. He's depressed and skitzy.
Here's some things that I've noticed alot lately & it's very hard to tell which cat is doing what:
Clear, frothy vomit. (Ghengis, Freya & Mischief)
Listlessness in all of them, except the kitten.
Loose, mucousy stools (Ghengis & Freya)
Loss of coat quality (Ghengis, Freya & Loki)
Champing (Mischief)
Occasional to Fequent Vomiting of food (Freya and sometimes Ghengis)
They all are still eating and appear to be retaining (most) of their food and I see them drinking, some more than others. Everyone appears to be using the litterbox, too.
I'm just so confused. I was sure Freya's T4 would show something. I had even suspected Distemper from the kitten for a while, but she's fine and the vet said it wasn't that. Our vet is at a loss and we are literally going broke from all of the vet bills. We completely trust our vets and have significant faith in their practices abilities. I worked for them in High School and know that all of them are very good doctors. BUT, maybe there is something that they haven't thought about. All we do know is that our cats aren't doing too well health wise and we don't know what's causing this or how we can help them.
Do you think that something in our home could be making them all sick. I know that their symptoms are pretty general. But it's seems very odd that most of them are experiencing health isssues.
Any thoughts or ideas would be most welcome.
Thank-you for your time,
Truly.