My cats stumbling and not acting right

jkw6

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Hello I've had a issue with my cat since last night. He was fine yesterday when i let him out for a couple of hours but when he came back 3 hours or so later he came back stumbling having issues walking as if he was drunk. No scratches or injuries that i could see but he wasn't acting normal and was stumbling everywhere. I took him to the Vet and the first thing he said was there's a good chance he got into some anti freeze or something. He ran the test and he showed up clean. He suggested theirs s a list of other things they could check for other poisons and  procedures to clean his system out. He thought it was still some sort of toxin or something neurological. I wanted to do these treatments but it was going to cost $1000.00 to do. I couldn't afford to pay him so i asked if there was anything he could do and he suggested he could give him a charcoal treatment to absorb anything he might have gotten into for good measure. 
Today hes still very stumble y, doesn't seem to want to eat or drink, and i noticed his eyes are rolling back in his head and you can see his white eye lids taking up the bottom of his eyes. He did manage to make it to the kitty litter this morning but still doesn't want water or food.

Do these symptoms ring any bells to anyone?
 

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I'm sorry, but he needs thorough veterinary treatment. There's no way of knowing what's wrong without a diagnosis, but it doesn't sound good. Can you work out a payment plan with your vet, or borrow some money from somewhere? It's not fair to just leave your cat in his current state. He may have internal injuries. Hope whatever is wrong is easily treatable :vibes:
 
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jkw6

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I did end up just putting it on my credit card ill deal with that later. Just noticed as i was bringing him to the vet he seems to be leaning to the right a lot as well. All ways seems to be falling on that side specifically and his heads all ways tilting a bit to the right. 
 

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Sounds to me to be vestibular disorder or it could be a inner ear infection. Keep us posted on the diagnoses
 

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When l had my Persian he was like that once. When i took him to the vet he said he thought it was a plant he  had eaten, also if she had a operation that could make her the same if she was allergic to part of it. She hadn't had an op so gave her the charcoal  to try and mop it up. She started to get better in two days and was more steady on her feet. I got a list of plants with pictures and checked my garden and my neighbors but couldn't find anything poisoners so if it was a plant it would have been  further away.

Hope your cat gets better soon, see if he will drink a lot of water as that will help to flush it out.

Jilly
 
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