Hello all!
I've been lurking here for a few weeks but have decided to finally create an account and post something.
My kitty Bailey has been having tummy troubles since the beginning of December... well longer really but it wasnt something we couldnt handle with a simple food change before.
In the beginning of December she got extremely constipated with basically hair, and we had to take her to the emergency vet for a clean out. Took her a few days to recover from that, they put her on a high fiber diet, with miralax mixed into her food and for about 3 weeks she did excellent.
Then suddenly at the beginning of January she started vomiting twice daily. We took her in again and the doc figures (without doing anything invasive) that she probably has inflamed bowel disease... so we switched her to grain free and he started a prescription for cisapride.
Her vomiting then descreased to about once a day or every other day... but then suddenly she stopped eating. I brought her in again and he did an ultrasound and it showed her stomach was very inflamed and there was something in her stomach... possibly the baby food I'd managed to get her to eat a few hours prior to bringing her in. So he gave us a prescription for an antacid and anti-inflamatory... this is where everything has really started getting "fun". She took about 2 days worth of both medicines before she began violently choking them up immediately after I administered them. To be fair the ant-inflamatory tastes like cough syrup.. but at this point (Friday last week) it has become impossible to get her to keep down any of the meds I am supposed to be giving her. She seemed to have been reacting very well to the meds tho, as on Friday her appetite returned and she was almost her old self... but because we couldnt get her to keep down her meds as of Sunday she'd stopped eating again. So we brought her in Monday again and he gave her a shot of anti-inflamatory. Yesterday he also put in the presciption with the pharmacy that specilaizes in pet meds to get them in hopefully a less offensive flavor.
She started eating again yesterday and seems to be in better spirits..... but my biggest concern right now is that she hasn't pooped since last Thursday night. =\ It is Wednesday now. Keep in mind she only really ate anything last Friday, a bit Saturday, and then again yesterday/this morning.
I am also freaking out cause I don't know what I'm gonna do if I cant sneak her meds into her food, because this injection only lasts about a week and he prefers not to continuously administer it for fear of her developing diabetes (a side effect I guess).
I stopped into the vet this morning and picked up some of that viyo I'd read about on threads here, hoping I could use it to sneak her meds in, but she wont touch it even plain. My doc isnt in today but the assistant mentioned a possibly blockage because of that "mystery thing" we saw in her ultrasound last week (Tuesday). So now I am FLIPPING OUT about that...
She doesnt seem uncomfortable.... has been grooming a bit in bendy positions and doesnt complain if we pick her up. Best of all is her appetite has returned but I know it is only temporary if we cant get her to take her meds. Oh and she also seems to have stopped vomiting.... no pukes since Sunday... (knock on wood)
HELP! I am so desperate!
How worried should I be that she is not pooping? Has anyone had their kitty go this long?
How am I gonna give her her meds if she chokes them straight up???
PS- I did manage to get a dose of cisapride in her food this morning.... it has the less offensive smell/taste of all the meds she has so she ate it ok.
I've been lurking here for a few weeks but have decided to finally create an account and post something.
My kitty Bailey has been having tummy troubles since the beginning of December... well longer really but it wasnt something we couldnt handle with a simple food change before.
In the beginning of December she got extremely constipated with basically hair, and we had to take her to the emergency vet for a clean out. Took her a few days to recover from that, they put her on a high fiber diet, with miralax mixed into her food and for about 3 weeks she did excellent.
Then suddenly at the beginning of January she started vomiting twice daily. We took her in again and the doc figures (without doing anything invasive) that she probably has inflamed bowel disease... so we switched her to grain free and he started a prescription for cisapride.
Her vomiting then descreased to about once a day or every other day... but then suddenly she stopped eating. I brought her in again and he did an ultrasound and it showed her stomach was very inflamed and there was something in her stomach... possibly the baby food I'd managed to get her to eat a few hours prior to bringing her in. So he gave us a prescription for an antacid and anti-inflamatory... this is where everything has really started getting "fun". She took about 2 days worth of both medicines before she began violently choking them up immediately after I administered them. To be fair the ant-inflamatory tastes like cough syrup.. but at this point (Friday last week) it has become impossible to get her to keep down any of the meds I am supposed to be giving her. She seemed to have been reacting very well to the meds tho, as on Friday her appetite returned and she was almost her old self... but because we couldnt get her to keep down her meds as of Sunday she'd stopped eating again. So we brought her in Monday again and he gave her a shot of anti-inflamatory. Yesterday he also put in the presciption with the pharmacy that specilaizes in pet meds to get them in hopefully a less offensive flavor.
She started eating again yesterday and seems to be in better spirits..... but my biggest concern right now is that she hasn't pooped since last Thursday night. =\ It is Wednesday now. Keep in mind she only really ate anything last Friday, a bit Saturday, and then again yesterday/this morning.
I am also freaking out cause I don't know what I'm gonna do if I cant sneak her meds into her food, because this injection only lasts about a week and he prefers not to continuously administer it for fear of her developing diabetes (a side effect I guess).
I stopped into the vet this morning and picked up some of that viyo I'd read about on threads here, hoping I could use it to sneak her meds in, but she wont touch it even plain. My doc isnt in today but the assistant mentioned a possibly blockage because of that "mystery thing" we saw in her ultrasound last week (Tuesday). So now I am FLIPPING OUT about that...
She doesnt seem uncomfortable.... has been grooming a bit in bendy positions and doesnt complain if we pick her up. Best of all is her appetite has returned but I know it is only temporary if we cant get her to take her meds. Oh and she also seems to have stopped vomiting.... no pukes since Sunday... (knock on wood)
HELP! I am so desperate!
How worried should I be that she is not pooping? Has anyone had their kitty go this long?
How am I gonna give her her meds if she chokes them straight up???
PS- I did manage to get a dose of cisapride in her food this morning.... it has the less offensive smell/taste of all the meds she has so she ate it ok.