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Hi everyone I'm new here and hope I'm welcomed.
Well my "kitty" is 18 yrs old and vets always say how great her health is for her age, and being an indoor cat for well over a decade has helped with that.
The past couple weeks she has been throwing up a lot more than usual and shes lost so much weight, 5lbs the vet said, i think she averages 9lbs (shes always been a tiny cat). So the vet took an x-ray and showed me a growth that might be cancer in her lungs! The growth was a near perfect sphere and looked enclosed (no cancer filaments spreading outward) he said it could be a cancer tumor or it could have been a growth caused by her thyroid, I cant afford a biopsy and he said the surgery alone can cause many problems so he gave us Metoclopramide to give to her which bugs me cause its a Very very powerful drug which can cause all kinds of other problems so I'm concerned about giving her that.
Also I've tried other dry foods in the past to try and help her vomiting problem and shed always got either diarrhea (sometimes bloody diarrhea) or vomited more, and lost weight with some dry foods i tried so I always went back to what shes been on for years Purina One senior protection. But after explaining this to the vet he still gave us caned wet food to start giving to her to make her gain weight, but if she had that much trouble with dry foods I cant imagine the problems she have with wet food.
So in the end I'm wondering should I hold of on the meds/wetfood until i go somewhere else and get a second opinion/testing from a different place and vet? (We always suggest to do that when "people" get diagnosed with cancer)
Shes always been healthy acting and looking cat and is still the same but I could use some friendly advice. If she could give me the tumor to make her all better I would do it in a heart beat! I luvs my kitty!
Keep Purr'n
FelineLuver
Well my "kitty" is 18 yrs old and vets always say how great her health is for her age, and being an indoor cat for well over a decade has helped with that.
The past couple weeks she has been throwing up a lot more than usual and shes lost so much weight, 5lbs the vet said, i think she averages 9lbs (shes always been a tiny cat). So the vet took an x-ray and showed me a growth that might be cancer in her lungs! The growth was a near perfect sphere and looked enclosed (no cancer filaments spreading outward) he said it could be a cancer tumor or it could have been a growth caused by her thyroid, I cant afford a biopsy and he said the surgery alone can cause many problems so he gave us Metoclopramide to give to her which bugs me cause its a Very very powerful drug which can cause all kinds of other problems so I'm concerned about giving her that.
Also I've tried other dry foods in the past to try and help her vomiting problem and shed always got either diarrhea (sometimes bloody diarrhea) or vomited more, and lost weight with some dry foods i tried so I always went back to what shes been on for years Purina One senior protection. But after explaining this to the vet he still gave us caned wet food to start giving to her to make her gain weight, but if she had that much trouble with dry foods I cant imagine the problems she have with wet food.
So in the end I'm wondering should I hold of on the meds/wetfood until i go somewhere else and get a second opinion/testing from a different place and vet? (We always suggest to do that when "people" get diagnosed with cancer)
Shes always been healthy acting and looking cat and is still the same but I could use some friendly advice. If she could give me the tumor to make her all better I would do it in a heart beat! I luvs my kitty!
Keep Purr'n
FelineLuver