Hi, i am hoping someone has seen this before and can offer help. cat and i are both traumatized... this is the link to videos of what is happening with him. It is painful to watch him go through that over and over.
bobo
several months ago every once in a while my Cat, Bobo, would flinch and seem to get a sharp pain in his tail/rear area . it was infrequent so i didn't think much of it. A few weeks ago, i noticed blood in his stool ( he usually goes 4 or 5 times a day). I took him in to the vet and they had to sedate him to check him out-and after the x rays, they found that he was constipated badly. I had no idea as he always went several times a day. They removed a large volume of hardened feces from him. They then put him on lactalose and some pain meds. After coming home the first day he was fine- no pain in the back which i attributed to the major constipation. and thought it was resolved. The next day , this issue occurred again and every day since. Every time he gets on the couch, he goes into the pooping position and i can see spasms in his back and he tries to sit and can't, he will try and try and plop down on either side , and whatever side he is on, his leg will still twitching and rising in the air. He is very uncomfortable and can see it is painful. Eventually he manages to sit and then is ok . he seems to be able to sit on the floor or on the bed without this happening. since being home he goes once or twice a day, have changed his food, added hydration, the vet said he should go four times a day which then leads me to think hes already constipated again. at his recheck a week later she said he was not . stool was soft. She said she has never seen this trying to sit back spasm , before and doesn't think it is related to constipation. Suggested it is arthritis , or a neurological thing. but has no idea and only could say she could refer him to a neurologist but that would be very expensive. he is now on two meds for constipation , one pain killer and one anti convulse muscle med. He sleeps a lot , does eat and drink, but this sitting down thing is torture. He is 12 and a half years old , and it seems the vet thinks he is old. she also said maybe he has mega colon but also i wonder why this wouldn't show on the x ray . And does this happen from one bout of constipation? and is the previous constipation related to this back spasm pain, poop stance ?Before this happened he has never been sick. Beside myself with worrying about this and that there is no answer. any help greatly appreciated
thank you
Roberta
bobo
several months ago every once in a while my Cat, Bobo, would flinch and seem to get a sharp pain in his tail/rear area . it was infrequent so i didn't think much of it. A few weeks ago, i noticed blood in his stool ( he usually goes 4 or 5 times a day). I took him in to the vet and they had to sedate him to check him out-and after the x rays, they found that he was constipated badly. I had no idea as he always went several times a day. They removed a large volume of hardened feces from him. They then put him on lactalose and some pain meds. After coming home the first day he was fine- no pain in the back which i attributed to the major constipation. and thought it was resolved. The next day , this issue occurred again and every day since. Every time he gets on the couch, he goes into the pooping position and i can see spasms in his back and he tries to sit and can't, he will try and try and plop down on either side , and whatever side he is on, his leg will still twitching and rising in the air. He is very uncomfortable and can see it is painful. Eventually he manages to sit and then is ok . he seems to be able to sit on the floor or on the bed without this happening. since being home he goes once or twice a day, have changed his food, added hydration, the vet said he should go four times a day which then leads me to think hes already constipated again. at his recheck a week later she said he was not . stool was soft. She said she has never seen this trying to sit back spasm , before and doesn't think it is related to constipation. Suggested it is arthritis , or a neurological thing. but has no idea and only could say she could refer him to a neurologist but that would be very expensive. he is now on two meds for constipation , one pain killer and one anti convulse muscle med. He sleeps a lot , does eat and drink, but this sitting down thing is torture. He is 12 and a half years old , and it seems the vet thinks he is old. she also said maybe he has mega colon but also i wonder why this wouldn't show on the x ray . And does this happen from one bout of constipation? and is the previous constipation related to this back spasm pain, poop stance ?Before this happened he has never been sick. Beside myself with worrying about this and that there is no answer. any help greatly appreciated
thank you
Roberta