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jcat, I had a hard enough time writing my post above. I don't think I'll post in the other forum, but I did find a post there that really helped me before I made the decision to make Red's appointment, so I'm very thankful for that. Please go ahead and close this thread if you need to. Thank...

Hi everyone, I just wanted to give a brief (sad) update. I ended up putting Red down on June 4. In addition to the problems I explained here, he'd also become incontinent (http://www.thecatsite.com/t/259495/incontinence) and pretty much stopped eating and drinking. I believe in my heart that...

Right now, part of the problem is getting him to eat anything at all. I'll see if the Mertazipine will help get some food into him. They didn't find crystals this time. Could he have stones but not expel any crystals? They didn't mention anything about crystals with the first urinalysis back in...

They were struvite, and it was a different place altogether.

Actually, he had the stones 9 years ago, and got them surgically removed. All the labwork has told us is that there could be some underlying disease, but he's very frail at this point and anything drastic wouldn't be good for him. Thanks for the good vibes. This is all eating me up.

He's been on a steady decline for the past almost 2 months now: lost about 4 lbs, constipation/diarrhea, vomiting, lethargy, decreased appetite. The incontinence is just the latest thing. He's been on Prednisolone for the past 3 weeks (for suspected ibd), but the vet said to stop for now to see...

I just got off the phone with the vet, and she said all his labs are "unremarkable," but there was a little bit of something in one of his liver numbers that could be the very start of some issue (sorry, I can't quite remember now). There was also a little bit of blood in his urine. If there is...

Hi all, I have a previous thread on here about my Red's constipation/diarrhea issues. Some good news is that he's been doing much better, making it to the box. He's still constipated, but the Lactulose is working for now. His stool is still loose or really soft but formed, but it's all been...

Ah, enema. That slipped my mind somehow. I'll ask the vet about that, thanks for the reminder. I still had some Lactulose here, and he's gotten 2 doses so far. He seems to be visiting the water bowl more often as well.

I think we've gone back to constipation. Can that happen in just a few days? I really thought Red was on the mend, but he's back to straining and barely eating. And now he's peeing on the floor. I'll call the vet Tuesday and try to get him in, but I'm feeling really hopeless right now.

Update: We've gone from pudding to toothpaste this morning! Now to just get it in the box.....

Ok, thanks. I came home to a small piece of soft, formed stool with some very loose stool around it. I hope this means we're headed in the right direction. This is the 2nd day off the Miralax.

I emptied a probiotic capsule into his food this morning. I'm getting a little desperate, but I don't want to do too much too fast. I remember the first time I took a probiotic, it did a little number on me and I don't want to aggravate him further. I also have some slippery elm bark powder on...

She wants to stick with the Pred for now, and hold off on the Miralax. I forgot to ask about the probiotic. I do have some here. He's a tall cat, so I have jumbo boxes. Sometimes his butt hangs over, and that's fine. It's nothing new. Sometimes he does go on the paper I have underneath. The...

1/4 tsp, twice a day. That seemed to be the sweet spot that got some hard stool out the other day, but I skipped this morning. He had some pudding consistency stool this morning (out of the box and on the steps). This is different than when he had the wet stool pushing past the hard stool.