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Hi,
I'm new here, desperate to find answers. We've been to the vet twice in the last month and at this point, our vet is out of answers. I will do my best to not ramble, but really want to tell you everything I can in the hopes that someone knows what's going on.
Molly is 16. Her normal weight was around 10 pounds. In the past year, she began losing weight, but we (foolishy, I'm sure) chalked it up to old age.
About a month ago, she began peeing on our bed. She began coughing and sneezing. Her short coat started matting. She had diarrhea .We took her to the vet, who proceeded to do lab work and an xray. At that time she weighed 5 pounds (how she disappeared before our eyes without us realizing it, we'll never know). Her blood work showed that she had hyperthyroidism. The xray didn't show much, but there was some darkening in her chest cavity that the vet thought was too low to be asthma, but she gave her a steroid injection anyway, just in case. She also started her on methimazole (2.5 mg BID). She also was given flagyl for the diarrhea and probiotics as her poop was essentially bacteria.
She thrived for about 3 weeks and then she crashed. The skin on her head turned red. Her eyes were watery and her nose ran. She stopped eating and pooping. And, as crazy as it sounds, every time she drank she began putting her littery foot in her water bowl, thus making a big old mess of it and everything else.
Took her back to the vet and her blood work (at this point we were convinced it was CRF) and her kidney values are great. All her labs were perfect, even her thyroid levels. She now weighs 4 pounds. The vet suspected an allergy to the methimazole, so we stopped it. This was last Wednesday. She also gave her an injection of antibiotic as she thought the watery eyes/nose were due to a sinus infection.
Talked to the vet on Friday and have given her the weekend, but the vet doesn't know why she is still sick. She is still not eating, unless it's people food. Pooped (one small piece) on the floor yesterday, but that was the first stool in approximately 10 days.
The vet seems convinced it's not cancer because the blood work is fine, but from what I've read here, that's not always the case, is it? Molly just isn't right and we want to do the right thing, but it would certainly be easier if we knew what was happening.
If you are still reading, thank you in advance for any of your thoughts.
Jen & Molly
I'm new here, desperate to find answers. We've been to the vet twice in the last month and at this point, our vet is out of answers. I will do my best to not ramble, but really want to tell you everything I can in the hopes that someone knows what's going on.
Molly is 16. Her normal weight was around 10 pounds. In the past year, she began losing weight, but we (foolishy, I'm sure) chalked it up to old age.
About a month ago, she began peeing on our bed. She began coughing and sneezing. Her short coat started matting. She had diarrhea .We took her to the vet, who proceeded to do lab work and an xray. At that time she weighed 5 pounds (how she disappeared before our eyes without us realizing it, we'll never know). Her blood work showed that she had hyperthyroidism. The xray didn't show much, but there was some darkening in her chest cavity that the vet thought was too low to be asthma, but she gave her a steroid injection anyway, just in case. She also started her on methimazole (2.5 mg BID). She also was given flagyl for the diarrhea and probiotics as her poop was essentially bacteria.
She thrived for about 3 weeks and then she crashed. The skin on her head turned red. Her eyes were watery and her nose ran. She stopped eating and pooping. And, as crazy as it sounds, every time she drank she began putting her littery foot in her water bowl, thus making a big old mess of it and everything else.
Took her back to the vet and her blood work (at this point we were convinced it was CRF) and her kidney values are great. All her labs were perfect, even her thyroid levels. She now weighs 4 pounds. The vet suspected an allergy to the methimazole, so we stopped it. This was last Wednesday. She also gave her an injection of antibiotic as she thought the watery eyes/nose were due to a sinus infection.
Talked to the vet on Friday and have given her the weekend, but the vet doesn't know why she is still sick. She is still not eating, unless it's people food. Pooped (one small piece) on the floor yesterday, but that was the first stool in approximately 10 days.
The vet seems convinced it's not cancer because the blood work is fine, but from what I've read here, that's not always the case, is it? Molly just isn't right and we want to do the right thing, but it would certainly be easier if we knew what was happening.
If you are still reading, thank you in advance for any of your thoughts.
Jen & Molly