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Does anyone have an opinion on stairs? Recently, we lost our 10 year old kitty due to Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. When we found out we placed another littler box upstairs in case he had trouble going up and down the stairs to the basement.  He did in fact use both.  He didn't seem to struggle...

Hi PureJoy, I know your pain.  We just went through it with our Toby.  We fought so hard for our little guy but in the end his little enlarged heart just couldn't hold out any longer.  He started having significant trouble breathing and we had to rush him to the vet for oxygen three times. On...

Thanks StephenQ. We took your advice and was in the process of trying to ensure the balance between treating the heart condition and keeping his kidneys going strong. It was on our long list of questions for the vets that we never even really got to due to the emergency issue. I just hope he...

Unfortunately we just lost Toby. We are just heartbroken.  It's just not how I expected Toby would go. But I knew last night that when we had to rush him right back to the emergency vet that something was seriously wrong and I just felt it in my gut that we were going to be out of options much...

Thanks guys. This is so hard. I never thought it would be this hard. I just got off the phone with the emergency vet where he's staying in oxygen and now he's starting to have episodes including mouth-open breathing even inside the oxygen chamber but then he calms down again. It's obvious that...

So sorry to hear what you're going through. Wishing you and your kitty the best. We are in a similar boat also. We are trying everything and still have no answers with our Toby who has no appetite and goes into breathing distress unless he's inside an oxygen box.

Thanks Gigmargl for the vibes and well wishes. We really need them right now.

Thanks for your kind words and info Foxxycat. Yes we are thinking she will do another ultrasound, that was the point of bringing him into her today after leaving the emergency vet.  Unfortunately we didn't even make it that far before Toby went into respiratory distress right in front of all of...

Hi again Foxxycat, With regard to a 2nd Ultrasound, we had one last week.  The reason we brought him straight from our local Emergency Vet to the Cardiologist today was to indeed do another Ultrasound but after she saw the x-rays taken last night she is in agreement with the Emergency Vet that...

Hi Foxxycat, Yes we are all at a loss and when the vet's are at a loss it's very scary indeed. His gums look normal and pink. His xrays showed no problems with the lungs really at all (not impressive is how they put it - which means pretty normal looking) When he was having the episode at...

MORE INFO: He is 10 years old by the way and other than the recent Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy diagnosis and this new unknown (and sound like unrelated) breathing distress issue, he has been a healthy lucky and very loved kitty from birth to now. He is an indoor cat. We don't think he suffered...

Hi everyone, We are so stressed out right now. Our Toby was recently diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and was placed on three meds, Lasix, Benazepril and Plavix. We first found out about his condition when he failed to eat one morning and we called our mobile vet who said there was...

Thank you everyone for your responses and helpful info. It has been a very stressful day.  Toby took a marked turn for the worse today. Thankfully we have been watching him essentially non-stop and he had an episode where he started to pant very heavily and couldn't find a comfortable...

We are heartbroken. Recently our 10 year cat named Toby was diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy after he failed to eat one morning and our mobile vet came to check on him where it was discovered he had fluid build-up around the lungs and also detection of a murmur which had not been...

Hi TigerUK, Sorry to hear. We're in the same boat with you.  Our 10 year old Toby was diagnosed with HCM last week after referral to the cardiologist from our regular vet who discovered a murmur when Toby failed to eat  one morning (highly unlike him so we knew something was wrong).  He was...