When I got this cat she was younger then 8 weeks (told she was 8 weeks but a runt) and her baby past was not fully disclosed. I suspect she was feral, alley, or abandoned. I waited a few weeks before going to the vet so I could have her spayed and vaccinated and wormed around the same time.
The vet would not spay her as to her young age..that's how I found out her age.
Up until now, the only issue she had was constipation or very slow bowel movements, but they were very hard, light colored, few, and not often. She would have issues pinching and I had to wipe her, she would also lick her lips as if she had an upset stomach all the time, but never threw up.
I adjusted her diet to her liking and bowel movements as well as the lip licking. All was going fine until this past April.
She turned 4 and started to not jump up. She would look at the area to jump, raise and lower her head, and not do it. I thought she had a vision problem.
I take her to the vet, they check her legs, her vision, blood work, take an x-ray, see she is full of poop, advise a pain killer (i declined), and sent me on my way. The blood work comes back and the vet was not concerned over some levels out of range. She does not get better she gets worse. I take her back and see a different vet. They give her an antibiotic, and prednisone (the one for cats) she goes through the treatment, and still nothing.
Back to the vet, and I see the head vet. He looks at the x-ray and shows her full of poop, but zeros in that she is a Manx, claiming something is going on with her rump area, and I should see a neurosurgeon and get a $2k MRI. He gives her pain meds (simbadol) and sends me on my way.
After the pain meds she got even worse. She wouldn't drink or eat. I call the vet and now this is turning into an emergency situation. I check with a pharmacist who said the drug would be in her system 5 days, not 24 hours as the vet claimed. Now I don't trust the vet and take this into my own hands. I forced her water, baby food chicken, baby squash, and eventually the crisis was over. Now she starts licking and biting at her abdomen.
I go to the neuro vet, he looks at the x-ray and see's nothing wrong. He takes her out of the room to the ortho vet, brings her back, and says the ortho vet did some twisting, pulling, bending, and finds nothing wrong with her skeleton. For $2k I could get an MRI.......he gives prednisone.
After she eats on her own, she starts having issues again, so I pull all the food and start an elimination diet. So far the culprit is fish and grain.
I take her to a brand new vet, 14 weeks or records I kept for the diet, and she suggests IBD and I should get an ultrasound. She gave her Hills i/z canned. I fed her 1/3 can that night and she attacked herself terribly. I gave her a pile of catnip and that calmed her for the night. The next day she refused all the "special" food, water, everything. That night the biting started again, she was in pain. I gave her prednisone and she felt better.
The pain she feels starts high around the sternum (duodenum?) she attacks herself, then it moves to the lower abdomen, she has a bowel movement feels a bit better, but the pain is never gone.
The only off the wall thing I can think of is: if she was feral, stray, abandoned, her survival instinct kicked in and she kept herself from pooping so that she would not be found and used as prey. This in turn caused the anal retentive (literally) and caused the bowel issue.
I've spend a lot of money on this and can barely afford another dime.
Any ideas what I can do to help her?
The vet would not spay her as to her young age..that's how I found out her age.
Up until now, the only issue she had was constipation or very slow bowel movements, but they were very hard, light colored, few, and not often. She would have issues pinching and I had to wipe her, she would also lick her lips as if she had an upset stomach all the time, but never threw up.
I adjusted her diet to her liking and bowel movements as well as the lip licking. All was going fine until this past April.
She turned 4 and started to not jump up. She would look at the area to jump, raise and lower her head, and not do it. I thought she had a vision problem.
I take her to the vet, they check her legs, her vision, blood work, take an x-ray, see she is full of poop, advise a pain killer (i declined), and sent me on my way. The blood work comes back and the vet was not concerned over some levels out of range. She does not get better she gets worse. I take her back and see a different vet. They give her an antibiotic, and prednisone (the one for cats) she goes through the treatment, and still nothing.
Back to the vet, and I see the head vet. He looks at the x-ray and shows her full of poop, but zeros in that she is a Manx, claiming something is going on with her rump area, and I should see a neurosurgeon and get a $2k MRI. He gives her pain meds (simbadol) and sends me on my way.
After the pain meds she got even worse. She wouldn't drink or eat. I call the vet and now this is turning into an emergency situation. I check with a pharmacist who said the drug would be in her system 5 days, not 24 hours as the vet claimed. Now I don't trust the vet and take this into my own hands. I forced her water, baby food chicken, baby squash, and eventually the crisis was over. Now she starts licking and biting at her abdomen.
I go to the neuro vet, he looks at the x-ray and see's nothing wrong. He takes her out of the room to the ortho vet, brings her back, and says the ortho vet did some twisting, pulling, bending, and finds nothing wrong with her skeleton. For $2k I could get an MRI.......he gives prednisone.
After she eats on her own, she starts having issues again, so I pull all the food and start an elimination diet. So far the culprit is fish and grain.
I take her to a brand new vet, 14 weeks or records I kept for the diet, and she suggests IBD and I should get an ultrasound. She gave her Hills i/z canned. I fed her 1/3 can that night and she attacked herself terribly. I gave her a pile of catnip and that calmed her for the night. The next day she refused all the "special" food, water, everything. That night the biting started again, she was in pain. I gave her prednisone and she felt better.
The pain she feels starts high around the sternum (duodenum?) she attacks herself, then it moves to the lower abdomen, she has a bowel movement feels a bit better, but the pain is never gone.
The only off the wall thing I can think of is: if she was feral, stray, abandoned, her survival instinct kicked in and she kept herself from pooping so that she would not be found and used as prey. This in turn caused the anal retentive (literally) and caused the bowel issue.
I've spend a lot of money on this and can barely afford another dime.
Any ideas what I can do to help her?
