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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...

Both he and his brother got some poo out over the weekend after the stool softener but, having seen the X-ray, it looked like there was more to come!  Anyway - that part I think is not a big issue (more just a complication as, in the long term, I'll have to figure out their food needs). I think...

Well, I took him back to the vet Friday.  He got an Xray and the poor guy is wildly constipated (to add to the other issues!)  For some reason both my cats have pretty sensitive stomachs and we had them on a very particular mix of food that was working well prior to this.  Moving over to the new...

Yeah - its tough, we had found just the right balance in their food that kept his brother's rather sensitive digestive system healthy and everyone was happy!  It took us a long time to get there and this adds a new level of complication.   My current theory is moving them to eat almost all wet...

That's a good suggestion actually.  He likes yogurt (he steals small doses, I don't feed it to him ;) ).  If nothing else it would make the pill slide down a little easier and may help to cover up the bitter taste.   For the constipation the new food is causing I may have to add some pumpkin or...

Yeah - the vet also thought another kind of stone was unlikely given the urinalysis and the age of the cat (1.5 years), but he was thinking about and Xray just to eliminate it as a possibility. One issue with the anti-inflamitories is that he really, really hates that pill.  I give him muscle...