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Yeah, the hope is that the steroid helps w/ the appetite. We're going back on Thursday.

He has been the most responsive to Soulsistic Tuna and Salmon Dinner? I can't really get him to eat anything else. We got another anti-nausea and a Depro Medrol Injection yesterday. Hoping those work.

I'm not actually sure. I know I had inappetance before the antibiotic, but it's possible it made it worse. The chart doesn't mention which antibiotic was used, just mentions vitalog and subcutaneous fluids.

Eggs did not work. He didn't care at all. :/ We might be going to a feeding tube soon.

That makes sense logically, but IBD is also a very complicated disease in humans. Two different people have very different presentations, courses, prognoses. He's been vomiting some today. He's clearly nauseous. He was begging for food, then refusing it, then drooling earlier. Later on, I...

No, my IBD is mostly under control with Humira and methotrexate. Before that it was bloody diarrhea that got me to get a colonoscopy. I wish it was that easy for my kitty.

This is so complicated. And I have human IBD (Crohn's to be specific)! So, there's some comfort in sharing that with him.

They gave him a shot of some anti-nausea med last week, but it probably already wore off. I've never had to give him any meds, so I don't know how it will or won't work. I think we'll go for an appetite stimulant. The vet gave him a pretty potent steroid (vetalog) as an injection - and wanted to...

The eating issue is so frustrating and it's clear he wants to eat but is feeling nauseous. He kept looking at me wanting food today, and then refused it and drooled a bit. He almost ate normally yesterday and then today nothing. It's like he's on a good-eating day / bad-eating day schedule. I...

Thanks so much.

no vomiting, but the anorexia could be explained by nausea. so dunno. he vomited a little in the beginning but i havent seen that since then.

yeah, I get the emotional stuff. I'm there too and frustrated and exhausted.

Thanks to the both of you - so I got some clarity on a few of these points after talking to the vet today. Basically, to respond to @FeebysOwner, she's treating it like IBD at this point by giving us the vetalog (steroid) injection and the antibiotic injection, which is how she'd initially...

I mean, I only noticed the lack of appetite - that was the presiding concern. And we did a series of tests which only brought up the intestinal wall thickening. But yeah, I do agree that getting back to eating and anti-virals are prudent.

Thanks. Given the thickened intestinal wall, it seems like either lymphoma or IBD is more probable. Given that the FNA can't rule that out, I'm assuming we'll have to go in that direction. This is all very new to me and I'm a wreck, so thanks for replying and listening.