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What dose are you using per cat?  Just one capsule of the dose you linked to?

I absolutely know that there's no guarantee with this and I'm not expecting one. I just want to make sure I'm not doing anything to make it worse and that hopefully the choices I make are going to help as much as possible. They will eat the SO but it gives them other digestive problems so it is...

Hi All - My Question: I've read that grain free foods may be bad for male cats who have had struvite crystals.  I did some reading about this (including multiple threads on this site) and the consensus seems to be that grain free wet food is fine (which is all I'm interested in). Is my...

I had been putting off posting about him because I didn't want to jinx it, but he is doing much better! Wesley hasn't had any symptoms for about 4 days now.  He pees in one go, doesn't lick himself afterwards and is in a really good mood.  He's off the pain killers completely, half the dose of...

So my cat was too cleaver for this apparently as he would lick all the good stuff off the pill and manage to kind of hide the pill in his cheek until I wasn't looking ;) My vet gave me a good tutorial on giving a cat a pill and now that is going very smoothly for me.  You open the mouth up...

Hey Furmom - how long did you keep your kittie on the cranberry, and did you end up using the mercurius vivus, and cantharis?  If so, how did that work out for you?

Thank you very much!  Yeah I think a better course of action for me from the start (for both crystals and constipation) would have been to just cut out the dry food.  I switched from no grain, high quality wet foods (usually natural balance limited ingredient) to the prescription food and his pH...

Thanks for the info.  Can I ask what you are feeding your kittie with the crystal issue?  

That is good to hear.  So you had pH tests done prior and after the Miralax that show this, or is that based on your cats not developing crystal problems after having Miralax introduced? BTW - I'm in Canada and apparently we don't have Miralax specifically up here but there are other PEG 3350...

I'm not sure he has a clear answer on this either (as he thought the pumpkin would be OK and that has apparently had a pretty substantial negative impact on the pH - not blaming him, these things are case by case I'm sure).  I wish it were easier for me to test his pH and I could adjust things...

From what I can understand of this document, PEG 3350 supplements (like miralax) also increase urine PH: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/nda/2006/022015s000_PharmR.pdf  (See pages 9 and 10). Maybe the dose I would need to provide would be so much less than the pumpkin that the...

Maybe!  I just did a quick search and it looks like pumpkin does have that effect on the urine.  I did speak specifically to my vet about this though and he thought pumpkin would be fine (maybe he assumed the effect would be slight in comparison to the SO effect). I'll try to get some miralax...

Thanks beckbjj and mommyto - nice to hear of some recovery stories! He's on pain meds now (same on your mentioned beckbjj) and that seems to have helped quite a bit as he is calmer and able to pee.  Likely under less stress which will help.  He only has a 5 day course though so I may have to...

Last night I came home and it seemed that Wesley was OK all day but he started peeing small amounts (which has unfortunately become normal).  This went on for about 20 litter box trips until he started crying in pain, licking himself down there, crying and running, licking, jumping in and out of...

They didn't suggest going back for a pH update.  For now I think I'll see how it goes but if he has to be taken in again then I'll ask them to run that test once more.  I don't think I'd have a lot of luck trying to interrupt his stream with test paper, and I imagine once it hits the litter the...