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    13 y/o cat with IBS. Vet recommending euthanasia

    Enough options have been exhausted that I'm not putting her or me through this anymore.  It's been almost three years.  A vet and a specialist have now told me that we are looking at some form of cancer.  Niko is miserable and I need to let her go.
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    13 y/o cat with IBS. Vet recommending euthanasia

    So I found out that we have been giving her Slippery Elm, it is one of the ingredients in the Vitality Science we have been giving her.  We took her to another specialist and we may be too late.  They did tests on her today (she is still there) and she may be in early stages of cancer.  They...
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    13 y/o cat with IBS. Vet recommending euthanasia

    She was initially diagnosed about 9 years ago, but it was manageable at first with probiotics and special diet.  Biopsies were done about three years ago when she started getting worse, and the treatments we had been using stopped working.  The biopsies verified IBD.  We have tried several...
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    13 y/o cat with IBS. Vet recommending euthanasia

    Thanks for the reply.  Never had a vet recommend something like this, but he said IBS is very painful and even though she may not look like she's in pain, she is. We did do a loading dose of steroids both times that we tried them.  Not sure if we tried Leukeran specifically, I can check her...
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    13 y/o cat with IBS. Vet recommending euthanasia

    I know this will be long, if you can read it and offer advice, I would be grateful. My 13 year old cat Niko has IBS.  She was officially diagnosed about 3 years ago, although she has had vomiting and diarrhea pretty much as long as I can remember.  It was always manageable before.  She was a...
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