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Oh really! Thank you!!

Sounds awful. Oh I didn't realize it could wax & wane, and so quickly too. Thank you!            

Denise, thank you so very much. Have you or anyone else on this forum seen any/many side effects from the steroids? If so, can I ask what they are like/how intense? Yes, I suppose I knew that inflammatory bowel disease was progressive. What really surprised me here was the strange, sudden...

Hello everyone, Thanks in advance for everything. I have a 14-year-old cat with IBD, who happens to also have kidney disease. I am posting this thread to ask about a very sudden loss of appetite in a cat who was only gaining weight for the first year and a half since being diagnosed with IBD...

Hmmm I suppose I could ask that, and I did read that on Tanya's website - but he hates the subQs. Do you think being hydrated unevenly could have affected his appetite?

150 mLs every 3 days.

Ohhhh interesting.           Thank you so much! So maybe before the appetite stimulant I should try both of those things.... Thanks a million! !! !!

Oh  really you think so? So a cat with 2.9 creatinine can have nausea? I thought that usually happened to cats with higher numbers. No, absolutely no hovering over the water bowl. His drinking is normal, as far as I can tell. Although of course he is drinking less since he's eating less.

Thank you so much! His creatinine is currently 2.9, his BUN 35, and his phosphorus is 3.7  His phosphorus has been well-managed for a while (not higher than 4.2), because I do put a phosphorus binder (aluminum hydroxide in his food). There is no vomiting. We don't really know, of course, if...

Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum, so I hope everything in this post is as it should be. I have a 14-year-old cat with kidney disease.  He was diagnosed with kidney disease a little over a year ago, in February of 2015. His creatinine was 2.9 I followed the advice of one board-certified vet...