I just wanted to offer a suggestion that has really helped my guy who has IBD. He also has issues with his panaceas, renal failure, and arthritis which does not help. For well over a year his average of not throwing up was sitting at 3 days and when he threw up he had no control and would throw up on himself and stumble through the mess while still throwing up. We tried all sorts of things and although in some ways he got better he never stopped throwing up. It was always large amounts of water with the food he ate in different stages of digestion.
The chart below is the number of days that Scratchy went before he threw up. Each blue horizontal line is 5 days and the red horizontal line is the average days of not throwing up. The purple line is the day I started to inject Cerenia into his sub-q instead of trying to get it into him in pill form. Before August of this year his average without throwing up was 3 days and the time after that is helping to pull the average up.
He has had a few IBD flare-ups during the time when I switched but his day to day is far better. My guy doesn't like being pilled and the only thing I can get into his mouth is the Buprenophine for his body pain. He is 19.5 years old so he has a fair bit of pain but he still gets around and can jump on chairs or tables. He is also anemic and when the IBD first came on he dropped a lot of weight and he is now skin and bones. Because he doesn't like to be pilled I had to find different ways of hiding it and I tried pretty much everything I found in searching and if he actually would eat it then it didn't take long before he either found the drug and didn't want it or just got bored of it.
So with my guy a lot of things he ate didn't really get absorbed such as food which is why he can eat 4 - 6 small cans of food and gain no weight. He is also a small cat and was probably 11 lbs in his prime and is just over 7 lbs now. It would seem that IBD in some cases will impede the body with absorbing drugs so they don't get the full dose. I asked to have all of his drugs changed to those I could inject into his sub-q to reduce the stress on him and as soon as I changed the Cerenia to an injectable he starts feeling better more of the time and stops throwing up all of the time.
He gets a sub-q every day so it is an easy way to get drugs into him and they seem to work much better than orally. If your cat has an illness that stops them from absorbing things properly then you may want to inject them straight in. Check with your vet first though because injecting drugs with a sub-q will slow their absorption and this does not work well with all drugs.
It is something to consider and for my guy it made a huge difference with him. I think of this as his retirement and I want to do the most for him so I am happy this one change has made such a difference.
The chart below is the number of days that Scratchy went before he threw up. Each blue horizontal line is 5 days and the red horizontal line is the average days of not throwing up. The purple line is the day I started to inject Cerenia into his sub-q instead of trying to get it into him in pill form. Before August of this year his average without throwing up was 3 days and the time after that is helping to pull the average up.
He has had a few IBD flare-ups during the time when I switched but his day to day is far better. My guy doesn't like being pilled and the only thing I can get into his mouth is the Buprenophine for his body pain. He is 19.5 years old so he has a fair bit of pain but he still gets around and can jump on chairs or tables. He is also anemic and when the IBD first came on he dropped a lot of weight and he is now skin and bones. Because he doesn't like to be pilled I had to find different ways of hiding it and I tried pretty much everything I found in searching and if he actually would eat it then it didn't take long before he either found the drug and didn't want it or just got bored of it.
So with my guy a lot of things he ate didn't really get absorbed such as food which is why he can eat 4 - 6 small cans of food and gain no weight. He is also a small cat and was probably 11 lbs in his prime and is just over 7 lbs now. It would seem that IBD in some cases will impede the body with absorbing drugs so they don't get the full dose. I asked to have all of his drugs changed to those I could inject into his sub-q to reduce the stress on him and as soon as I changed the Cerenia to an injectable he starts feeling better more of the time and stops throwing up all of the time.
He gets a sub-q every day so it is an easy way to get drugs into him and they seem to work much better than orally. If your cat has an illness that stops them from absorbing things properly then you may want to inject them straight in. Check with your vet first though because injecting drugs with a sub-q will slow their absorption and this does not work well with all drugs.
It is something to consider and for my guy it made a huge difference with him. I think of this as his retirement and I want to do the most for him so I am happy this one change has made such a difference.
