Our Persian boy is 7 and a half years old..
About two weeks ago he started squatting for urine but nothing would come out, he had shown some signs of excess visiting to the litter box around last March but with no blockage and the blood tests came out normal then, so the vet said it was an infection and after a 3 day antibiotic course he was ok, this time he vomited on Sunday and sneezed so we thought it was cold , then on Monday symptoms was clear , he spent the whole day in the litter box squatting with no urination at all, by evening we took him to the vet who emptied his bladder (and clear urine came out then) and told us not to worry , and prescribed him meloxicam and enrofloxacin , we returned home he kept staying in the litter box the whole night with nothing came out, and finally he woke us up at 8am on Sunday morning screaming of pain !!
We rushed to the only vet clinic we could find open this early, they had difficulty inserting a cannula and catheter tube up the penis, but eventually they relieved him off a huge amount of very bloody urine.
Later that day his vet catheterized him and put him on meloxicam and enrophloxacin again for 6 days and IV fluids to flush his body of the urine. and said the catheter would come off in 4 days and he would be able to urinate on his own as by then the swelling that blocked him would be gone, then he went on vacation, and his substitute insists on surgery (PU) with no promise that he will have control over his urination, provided that he makes it through surgery, that is if the catheter doesn't work. Until we made our minds, he was put on epicephine for another 3 days
4 days later the catheter came off, and by then his urine was clear... after 4 hours he was squatting again.. We had to spend the night trying to express his bladder but he kept squatting.. In the morning he was catheterized, bloody urine again, and later that day drew blood and urine samples...
His BUN was very high (93 out of 30), his creatinine (3.4 out of 2) not very high yet not normal though, his white cell count is gigantic, the urine contained few crystals of magnesium, and some blood. The xray showed no big stones but turbid urine, he has crystals, he was put on Vitamin C , Cystone, Synolux antibiotic for 6 days , Azodyl , while continuing the IV fluids.
To us surgery is out of the question because of his age and kidneys, and seeing how much the procedure is not sure-fire. He is on Royal Canin Renal S/O renal wet food now and still catheterized after almost 10 days.
Now we gotta get the catheter removed but we are too scared to get to square one , after all medications and antibiotics , we really don't know what to do?, will another catheter help? Or what?
About two weeks ago he started squatting for urine but nothing would come out, he had shown some signs of excess visiting to the litter box around last March but with no blockage and the blood tests came out normal then, so the vet said it was an infection and after a 3 day antibiotic course he was ok, this time he vomited on Sunday and sneezed so we thought it was cold , then on Monday symptoms was clear , he spent the whole day in the litter box squatting with no urination at all, by evening we took him to the vet who emptied his bladder (and clear urine came out then) and told us not to worry , and prescribed him meloxicam and enrofloxacin , we returned home he kept staying in the litter box the whole night with nothing came out, and finally he woke us up at 8am on Sunday morning screaming of pain !!
We rushed to the only vet clinic we could find open this early, they had difficulty inserting a cannula and catheter tube up the penis, but eventually they relieved him off a huge amount of very bloody urine.
Later that day his vet catheterized him and put him on meloxicam and enrophloxacin again for 6 days and IV fluids to flush his body of the urine. and said the catheter would come off in 4 days and he would be able to urinate on his own as by then the swelling that blocked him would be gone, then he went on vacation, and his substitute insists on surgery (PU) with no promise that he will have control over his urination, provided that he makes it through surgery, that is if the catheter doesn't work. Until we made our minds, he was put on epicephine for another 3 days
4 days later the catheter came off, and by then his urine was clear... after 4 hours he was squatting again.. We had to spend the night trying to express his bladder but he kept squatting.. In the morning he was catheterized, bloody urine again, and later that day drew blood and urine samples...
His BUN was very high (93 out of 30), his creatinine (3.4 out of 2) not very high yet not normal though, his white cell count is gigantic, the urine contained few crystals of magnesium, and some blood. The xray showed no big stones but turbid urine, he has crystals, he was put on Vitamin C , Cystone, Synolux antibiotic for 6 days , Azodyl , while continuing the IV fluids.
To us surgery is out of the question because of his age and kidneys, and seeing how much the procedure is not sure-fire. He is on Royal Canin Renal S/O renal wet food now and still catheterized after almost 10 days.
Now we gotta get the catheter removed but we are too scared to get to square one , after all medications and antibiotics , we really don't know what to do?, will another catheter help? Or what?
