cat with liver and kidney enlargement!

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I am absolutely devastated as my perfectly healthy 1year old boy suddenly started to change dramatically.

He started to picking his littler sand which i immediately informed the vet about it! he did some checkup and nothing was wrong! until 10days ago I noticed he is getting constipated and drinking lots of water and less food! and throwing up only small amount of waters with nothing with it!

Dr suspected hair ball or something stuck inside so gave a very strong laxative and immune booster to help him with the problem! it only helped while I was giving it to him! the stool color changed to black so took him back run some blood test and test for FIV which was negative. but the blood test indicated something wrong with liver and pancreas.

started the medication and he stopped eating or drinking on his own completely, so I am force feeding him since then. Now after a week he is still feeling down, losing weight and black small pieces of stool every 2 or 3days. he is eating Hills a/d so the Dr said it is ok to have little stool. I noticed abdominal pain and during these days I was in contact with the vet all the time! so today he went for Ultrasound and plain Xray. nothing in ultrasound but enlarge kidney and liver, with some weird structures observed in the stomach which i think might be the litter he ate. tomorrow they are going to do a barium contrast xray to see the movement.

Does anyone know or is familiar with these signs as the Dr is worried if the problem is still with the liver the medication wont change which up until now he didnt respond to them. Im afraid that I might lose my boy which I cannot handle it. I'll do anything to help him! but i am running out of options and he is getting worse and in a lot of pain.

the medications are 3kinds of antibiotics, liver supplement, lypex for pancreas, hi-vite liver and iron supplement and immune booster!

Up until now he had all of his vaccine, parasite control, neutered, ate high quality food such as nature's variety can food and royal canin dry. with treats such as salmon, kitzyme B-complex and so on!
 

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l'm so sorry that you and your boy are going through this  


l have no experience so can't offer any advice, hopefully someone with some experience will drop in through the day. The symptoms you describe did make me immediately think of a blockage, l was surprised that nothing showed up on x-ray or ultrasound. 

Sending vibes for your kitty 
  and hopefully the barium contrast x-ray will turn up something you can work with. Please let us know how he's doing.
 
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thanks for your positive comment! I also think the same " blockage ". Will tell you about the results tomorrow  
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So here is the most shocking and heartbreaking news. the barium showed nothing hard just kidney enlargement, nothing to know until today that i saw no imrovement and took him to another veterinary hospital and the dr said that because of the high level of bacteria and fever coming back again and other things in blood test she  suspects FIP and ran a test for it! it was based on the blood and they called me back with high positive result of FIP =[ my head is exploding from all the pain and crying! dont know what to do ....
 
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