I'd like to apologize in advance, I'm just... Upset and my young cats health is at the root of my frustration. If this isn't suitable for this forum, I understand, it's fine if it's just deleted or ignored. I'm dealing with this the best I can and it's working out I guess, I adore my cat and just want to take care of her the best I can, and I will. Advice, questions, opinions, it's all appreciated, I'm tired of trying to deal with my cat's uncooperative health myself.
Dear someone,
I sincerely hope that you will be able to help me. I've been so frustrated and upset, constantly feeling like I have no clue what to do or where to turn. I feel like I'm going to go insane. Every month I face my adorable ball of orange fluff, and find her skin broken and bleeding for no apparent reason. She greets me the same as ever while I look on in horror as my adorable and cuddly zombie cat tears new painful holes in her skin while I am powerless to help her get better.
I have a cat, her name I Suki. Her estimated birthdate is June 10th 2016.
I got her when she was around three months old, she came to me from a cat hoarder. She was covered in fleas, infested with ear mites, and had an upper resperatory infection. I brought her to a vet and had her treated, vaccinated, and later on spayed.
Not long after her first or second vet appointment, I noticed something else, she started having sores around her neck.
Everyone beleived it was an allergy, so I switched foods, changed flea prevenatives, changed cat litter, used ceramic instead of plastic dishes, got completly free of fleas and other inscects, moved accross the country, and still nothing changed.
We could treat it, we'd medicate her for whatever symptoms she had (sometimes the sores would switch, from her neck to the pads of her feet, or bald patched on her hind legs, or any number of odd places).
Every month it would return like clockwork. And here I am stuck treating the symptoms without knowing what the hell is wrong with my cat.
"Milairy dirmatitis" Fancy word for flea allergy. She's been free of fleas and on the best prevenatives I can afford for over a year. Could it be another allergin? Certainly! Please, be my guest, tell me is my cat allergic to humans? Dust? Herself?
"Autoimmune disorder" Words like that get thrown around every now and then but no one wants to actually diagnose it.
I'm so angry and frustrated as I take her to multiple vet clinics, and am left feeling brushed off and ignored. All I want is for my cat to be healthy and stay that way.
Most recently, I moved again. Her sores came back of course, so I brought her to the local vet as soon as I could. But they couldn't treat her, they had no clue what my previous vet was using to keep her "allergies" under control. It wasn't in her records and they never bothered to tell me even when I asked. They gave me some vitamins and I tried that, it had no effect and now my cat is looking so much worse now. I called the old vet and got an answer from them finally, and made another appointment. Now I have to wait for that day to come and I'm so sick of it all.
I need help getting my cat the help she needs. I don't know what to do, I don't this is fair. I take her in for a shot she hates every month to keep her from hurting herself and I don't even get to know the exact reason why? Why can't any of the five veteranairy offices I've been to tell me? Where can I go to find out? What do I need to do? What can I do?
-A distressed pet owner
Dear someone,
I sincerely hope that you will be able to help me. I've been so frustrated and upset, constantly feeling like I have no clue what to do or where to turn. I feel like I'm going to go insane. Every month I face my adorable ball of orange fluff, and find her skin broken and bleeding for no apparent reason. She greets me the same as ever while I look on in horror as my adorable and cuddly zombie cat tears new painful holes in her skin while I am powerless to help her get better.
I have a cat, her name I Suki. Her estimated birthdate is June 10th 2016.
I got her when she was around three months old, she came to me from a cat hoarder. She was covered in fleas, infested with ear mites, and had an upper resperatory infection. I brought her to a vet and had her treated, vaccinated, and later on spayed.
Not long after her first or second vet appointment, I noticed something else, she started having sores around her neck.
Everyone beleived it was an allergy, so I switched foods, changed flea prevenatives, changed cat litter, used ceramic instead of plastic dishes, got completly free of fleas and other inscects, moved accross the country, and still nothing changed.
We could treat it, we'd medicate her for whatever symptoms she had (sometimes the sores would switch, from her neck to the pads of her feet, or bald patched on her hind legs, or any number of odd places).
Every month it would return like clockwork. And here I am stuck treating the symptoms without knowing what the hell is wrong with my cat.
"Milairy dirmatitis" Fancy word for flea allergy. She's been free of fleas and on the best prevenatives I can afford for over a year. Could it be another allergin? Certainly! Please, be my guest, tell me is my cat allergic to humans? Dust? Herself?
"Autoimmune disorder" Words like that get thrown around every now and then but no one wants to actually diagnose it.
I'm so angry and frustrated as I take her to multiple vet clinics, and am left feeling brushed off and ignored. All I want is for my cat to be healthy and stay that way.
Most recently, I moved again. Her sores came back of course, so I brought her to the local vet as soon as I could. But they couldn't treat her, they had no clue what my previous vet was using to keep her "allergies" under control. It wasn't in her records and they never bothered to tell me even when I asked. They gave me some vitamins and I tried that, it had no effect and now my cat is looking so much worse now. I called the old vet and got an answer from them finally, and made another appointment. Now I have to wait for that day to come and I'm so sick of it all.
I need help getting my cat the help she needs. I don't know what to do, I don't this is fair. I take her in for a shot she hates every month to keep her from hurting herself and I don't even get to know the exact reason why? Why can't any of the five veteranairy offices I've been to tell me? Where can I go to find out? What do I need to do? What can I do?
-A distressed pet owner