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Thank you for your kind words. Sam passed away yesterday, we had the vets come to our home to put him to sleep and he died on my lap. They couldnt get a cannula into his vein because they had collapsed, so they had to inject directly into his vein as best they could, he seemed to go to sleep...

I'm afraid we have made the decision to have Sam put to sleep at home tomorrow. He tried to go to the toilet today, but fell over onto the floor after getting out of the cat tray. I think we all felt it was a read line once he could no longer go to the toilet properly. He cant move around any...

Im sorry to hear you are going through similar feelings right now. :( I dont believe the vet drained a LOT, his belly seemed to go down a bit with the diuretics then it seemed like it was expanding again, but it is so difficult to tell. I have been meaning to keep measuring it, but right now...

Thank you so much! His belly is so distended, the diuretics he had seemed to help at first but now they dont seem to be having the same effect. I want to try and save him but i just dont know whether we can, im being tortured right now, but how can we make a decision without feeling 'what if'...

The vet said they cannot give him any other pain relief with the steroids. At the moment he is just lying down all day, sometimes sleeping, sometimes with his eyes open. His brother keeps sitting with him and licking him. He tries to purr when you stroke him, but it is so weak you can hardly...

Thank you so much for the advice! We fear he is going down hill fast, ive been crying and unable to sleep all week. Sam is my soulmate. :( The vet said not to give him any Metacam for two days before starting the steroids, will the steroids relieve the pain, or should we ring the vet and ask if...

Hmmm well we did ask about testing the fluid and she ended up doing that. She rang today with the rest of the results and said she THINKS its cancer, and we are all quite distraught. She has prescribed steroids to reduce the inflammation, either as palliative care or on the chance that it is...

Ok so an update: it seems that the Metacam indeed did not CAUSE this problem. Sam had an abdominal scan and it was found that his intestines had thickened, which would explain the weightloss, obviously this has been coming on for some time and he hasn't been absorbing nutrients such as protein...

We will ask if they will take some fluid for testing, though the vet was resistant to poking things in there we need to know where this has come from. Right now i am at my wits end and am terrified and feel physically sick. I honestly thought he could die this morning and yet during the day he...

There is one other thing though, a couple of days after starting him on Metacam, we started giving him this:  to get some extra nutrients down him. That being said i have been unable to find anything online to suggest it has any side effects at all. But that is the only other new thing that he...

Thanks for the link! I am very careful when processing information found on the internet. In fact at first Sam showed no adverse signs of being on the Metacam and given the severity of his weight loss we were happy to try it even knowing some of those horror stories. However this abdominal...

Hi there, i'm new here! This site seems like a great place for information and to learn about peoples experiences with cats, so i hope someone might be able to help me with this. One of our two fur babies (15y/o) was put on Metacam a couple of weeks ago as he had lost a large amount of weight...