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post #31 of 39
10/6/10 at 8:41pm
what a relief! congrats!
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post #32 of 39
10/6/10 at 10:04pm
I'm so happy to hear that he's ok!
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post #33 of 39
10/7/10 at 2:11am
No expert but our cat has just returned from the vet after a week after he suffered a swollen kidney.

He pants and the kidney problems caused him to be very thirsty (before lethargy and near death set in).

If your cat has a monster thirst it could be that. A blood test/x-ray combo should show it up.
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post #34 of 39
10/7/10 at 1:07pm
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No expert but our cat has just returned from the vet after a week after he suffered a swollen kidney.

He pants and the kidney problems caused him to be very thirsty (before lethargy and near death set in).

If your cat has a monster thirst it could be that. A blood test/x-ray combo should show it up.
We had blood-work done, and everything appeared to be fine.

We aren't quite sure what's going on, but he's acting perfectly normal, and we've ruled out any kind of serious issue.

Assuming that he continues to act fine, then we've been told not to worry about him.
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post #35 of 39
10/8/10 at 5:11am
I have read this thread because this is quite similar to my cat Fleur's initial symptoms. She was 14.5 years old and she passed away last night. What I want to say is that I'm glad your cat seems to be fine, but just please continue to keep an eye on him. I am talking from the experience I just had with Fleur for the past 2 months... The reasons I initially took her to the vet 2months ago was some (slight) panting (she was breathing in by mouth and out through her nose) when she was going up/down the stairs between floors, and a weird snorring sound she was making every now and then, randomly, even when she was just laying down. These 2 seemed weird to me so I took her to the vet. He felt her, did the consultation, and we left his office with the diagnose of constipation (she also suffered from megacolon). The bloodwork was perfect (except for the thyroid and she got a px for that), heart was perfect, same were the lungs. Long story short, at my insistance, 2 weeks later she got diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. What I'm trying to say is that vets miss a lot of things. Swithched vets, the other ones took X-rays and again, concentrated on her constipation! Other than the cancer, they said she was fine! All her bloodwork and other tests came out perfect, they said her heart was still fine, even the lungs were not affected by the cancer. Now, 2 weeks later, she's dead. Of a heart attack! She had started breathing harder and harder for the past 3 days, especially when taking her medication, and last night, her little heart gave in
So please ask as many doctors as you can, ask for opinions, as the panting and that snorring are NOT good news, and not all doctors are able to pick up on everything.
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post #36 of 39
10/8/10 at 7:22pm
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I have read this thread because this is quite similar to my cat Fleur's initial symptoms. She was 14.5 years old and she passed away last night. What I want to say is that I'm glad your cat seems to be fine, but just please continue to keep an eye on him. I am talking from the experience I just had with Fleur for the past 2 months... The reasons I initially took her to the vet 2months ago was some (slight) panting (she was breathing in by mouth and out through her nose) when she was going up/down the stairs between floors, and a weird snorring sound she was making every now and then, randomly, even when she was just laying down. These 2 seemed weird to me so I took her to the vet. He felt her, did the consultation, and we left his office with the diagnose of constipation (she also suffered from megacolon). The bloodwork was perfect (except for the thyroid and she got a px for that), heart was perfect, same were the lungs. Long story short, at my insistance, 2 weeks later she got diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. What I'm trying to say is that vets miss a lot of things. Swithched vets, the other ones took X-rays and again, concentrated on her constipation! Other than the cancer, they said she was fine! All her bloodwork and other tests came out perfect, they said her heart was still fine, even the lungs were not affected by the cancer. Now, 2 weeks later, she's dead. Of a heart attack! She had started breathing harder and harder for the past 3 days, especially when taking her medication, and last night, her little heart gave in
So please ask as many doctors as you can, ask for opinions, as the panting and that snorring are NOT good news, and not all doctors are able to pick up on everything.
I'm no expert, but I'd think that the heartattack was the result of some kind of underlying heart disease, and not the breast cancer.

If your cat had severe breast cancer, there would be close to a 100% chance that her blood-work would be off, and the masses would show up to the naked eye, and on x-ray.

My boy is young, not a Siamese, and he's, well, a male. His blood work was fine, the x-ray showed nothing, and there's no lumps apparent on his abdomen.

As I said, I'll keep an eye on him, but I'm 99.9% sure that he's perfectly fine. As I said, if your cat had severe breast cancer, I'm nearly positive that her blood work would show that something was wrong - this happens nearly everytime an animal gets an invasion tumor. As for the heartattack - that was likely caused by an underlying heart issue.
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post #37 of 39
10/8/10 at 10:56pm
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As for the heartattack - that was likely caused by an underlying heart issue.
That was exactly her point - she also wanted to make the point that several vets never caught anything heart related, through blood work, x-ray,etc. And that the symptoms, like yours, were also panting and snoring. While the doctors were concerned only about constipation and cancer, they NEVER got what ended up killing her, and what the biggest problem (and the reason she went to the vet on the first place) really was.
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post #38 of 39
10/9/10 at 3:41pm
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That was exactly her point - she also wanted to make the point that several vets never caught anything heart related, through blood work, x-ray,etc. And that the symptoms, like yours, were also panting and snoring. While the doctors were concerned only about constipation and cancer, they NEVER got what ended up killing her, and what the biggest problem (and the reason she went to the vet on the first place) really was.
Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to say... Even though Fleur was terminally ill with metastatic cancer, her full-panel bloodwork showed a perfectly healthy cat, the only thing wrong on the bloodwork was her hyperthyroidism (which she got a prescription for 2 months ago). This is #1. #2, the doctor felt her belly at the first visit, because he was palpating her for constipation; he NEVER raised the question - why are those many large lumps there? I had to go back to him a week later to point them out, which is when he did the biopsy. #3 - two different doctors listened to her heart, one of them took 2 x-rays a week apart; both doctors said her heart was fine! Yet, she died of heart failure! I am REALLY mad and I just wanted to point out that these things happen, vets make huge mistakes and lots of major illnesses go untreated. But I hope with all my heart that, like you said, your baby is fine and healthy, I wish both of you all the best
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post #39 of 39
10/9/10 at 6:16pm
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Sora - I'm incredibly sorry to hear about your loss, but I have no reason to believe that my cat isn't healthy. We've had everything done to ensure that he's fine, and he's acting like a normal cat.

Again, I will keep an eye on him, but I have no reason to think he's having any kind of serious issues. We've had him listened to and examined multiple times, we've gotten him an echocardiogram, we've gotten him a chest x-ray, and we've had blood work done - all of these indicated that he's perfectly healthy. As I said, he's also acting perfectly normal (aside from the brief panting on exertion).

I'll absolutely keep an eye on him, but there's nothing more I can do. If I brought him to the vet, they couldn't do any more tests. I'm pretty positive that he's fine.
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