Vet visit not so good, any advice please

I'm crying as I write this because I just have no idea what to do. Piper is having diarrhea more and more often and no one can figure out what is going on.

We went to a new vet again today and he looked at stool slides for a good 15-20 minutes but said he saw nothing out of the ordinary. Even there at the vets office she was still having some seepage and he said that it was not normal and that there was something wrong but he just wasn't sure what. He gave us some prescription food to try and some pill to try. Then he said that if that didn't work he would refer me to an internal medicine vet.

Well, we got home and Piper liked her food ok but the pill was a whole different story. I have given cats pills before but lets just say she is not a pill taking kind of cat. She made herself throwup all over the place and was foaming and drooling everywhere for a good 30 minutes. She does a lot better with liquid meds. I called the vet back and they said to try and crush it up in her food but now she won't touch her food with the pill crushed up in there.

And to top this all off, we can't afford to see an internal medicine vet. My husband is just ready to give up and give her back to the shelter but I just refuse. She is my baby and I just can't do that. Plus, since she is ill I'm sure they would just put her down and I cant let that happen. We have already spent so much trying to figure out what is wrong with her and we have gotten no answers.

I just don't know what to do anymore. Does anyone have any ideas or know of a good vet in the hampton roads area?

Oh yeah, and I have tried to get a hold of the lady we adopted her from or the shelter to see if any of their other cats have tested positive for anything or had any diarrhea also to see if I could find a direction to head in but I can't seem to get anyone to answer there or call me back.

I have no clue what she has been tested for right now. I want to get her tested for TF. (Someone on here mentioned this to me and it she has all of the symptoms for it to a T) I told this vet about it and he said that he would look for it under the slide but from what I have read thats not a very effective way to test for it. Should I start calling around seeing how much these specific tests would cost? Deep down in my gut I really thing she just has a parasite or bacteria or something that is causing this and its not something that she needs to see and internalist for. I also want to try some limited ingredient diets to see if she is allergic to something in her food.

I was thinking this was caused by her anxiety but she seems to be very active and isn't hiding at all anymore (unless people come over, thats a whole different story) and has been eating great so I really don't think it is an anxiety issue. Then I thought it was because she was scared to poo around my husband in the litterbox but that doesn't seem to be it either. She is really just having cases of explosive diarrhea and can't always get to the litterbox is what it seems like to me.

Sorry if I'm just blabbing, I'm just so upset and lost with this.

Oh, where to you get gelatin capsules? I'm willing to try anything at this point.

These pills are blue ovals that says PRIMOR 120 on one side and are scored on the other side. He gave her 5 and I'm supposed to give her 1/2 each day. From what I have looked up it just seems like this is a general antibiotic or something *sigh*. I just went to the vet because of a referral from a friend but I think I made another bad vet choice again.

I want her tested for TF, I just don't know how to get it done.

Ok, I deleted some messages.

To anyone, how do I find a good knowledgeable vet without having to spend $$$ tons of money trying vet after vet? What kind of questions can I ask over the phone to help me make a better choice?

They closed an hour ago, I'm supposed to call back Monday if she wont eat the food they gave her or if I still cant get her to take a pill. She has had that and Clavamox from the other vet, which obviously didn't help. Apparently I'm just a bad vet magnet.

I looked up tons of stuff about TF after you told me about it last night and I realllllly think that might be what it is, she has every single one of the symptoms. I think I will just call vets and ask them if they they will test for that or not and just find a vet that will test for it.

We are in the Hampton Roads area in VA, we have tried Poquoson Vetinary Hospital and Hampton Vetinary here.

Nope, she has not been on the metronidazole before since I have had her. I'm still trying to get ahold of the shelter to get some kind of medical history from them. She was on the clavamox for a few days from the other vet who said that she was gainging weight and nothing seemed to be wrong.

Here is some of what I found out about TF http://www.tffelines.com/whatistf.html It realllllyyy seems to describe what she has.

I have no clue why they haven't done this either GGGGAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! I'm just beyond frustrated right now. The food the vet gave her today is Hills Prescription Diet i/d Feline. I'm supposed to give her 1/2 a can each day, which also seems like not enough food compared to what she has been eating.

On Monday morning I will call the first vet and tell them that I would really like something for her diarrhea, Metronidazole, since I cant get her in for a few days because of work and school. I don't know if they will give it to me but I will try. They have seen her more than the vet we went to today so I think I might have better luck with them.

I don't know about it either, I looked it up and it says its for "Dietary indiscretion, food allergies, or lack of digestive enzymes can affect your cat's digestive health." I'm not a big fan of science diet really anyways. I have my wellness ready to exchange at petco for the natural balance so I will do that when I head out later.

I looked it up to when people were trying to help me figure out what the vet had given her. I don't really think thats what she needs either. I'm not so sure about the food he gave her either.

Someone had mentioned that to me also and Im def keeping my eye out for signs of dehydration. She drinks water often and normally gets wet food mixed with water which she eats all of. She will have somewhat normal stools about 70% of the time and then these random bouts of diarrhea around the house the rest of the time. Its not extremely runny, more just like a big gooey pile. For a while I thought it was just nerves because it would happen so sporadically and I thought that if it was a medical issue she would have it all of the time, but one of the things with TF is that it can be random and chronic.