Any help?

Okay so background info of importance
Windsor is a 11lb 5oz orange tabby dsh. last Thursday he presented with straining to urinate and urinating all over our house, Sat we took him to the vet where he got a shot of an anti inflammatory and was prescribed 2 meds(clavamox and pheno something or another) and we were told it was a uti, well after all that poor little windor became impacted, so back to the vet on Tuesday for an enema and a cathader and xrays(only thing they show is he's backed up) and labwork(show crystals in urine confirming uti). So Tuesday night windsor finally poops, wasn't much but it was poop so we were happy to be moving in the right direction. Well that was it for his bowel movements until we took him back in on Friday for another cath and another enema and because he was not breathing thru his nose at all. Finally success or as the vet would put it a blowout, they also ran a kidney panel to see if it was his kidneys everything looks fine. We are told take him off the pheno and to finish the clavamox and that he now has a uri as well. He is still impacted. Any ideas on what's going on here. Uti->impacted->uri. Obviously something is way outta whack here. Is there something we are missing?

I know stress can bring on an URI.  Best guess one of the meds was messing with his bowel movements. If the phenol was a opiate that could cause issues. I'm happy your boy has good panels. I'd ask the vet to prescribe something going into his digestive system to help things get moving rather than relying on an enema. I'd guess no dry food of any kind until he's making stools on his own.

Well he's been getting the science diet u/t health stuff twice a day and am adding water to them to try n up his intake a little

Oh yeah and as of today he has a fever of 104 I'm not sure if I remembered that in the post or not. Lotta issues going on with him and I tried my best to cover everything. He's had one hell of a rough week. And I'm just worried that there could be something else behind it all. Maybe I'm just paranoid but that's a lot of crap for a week

dfelt987 said:

Well he's been getting the science diet u/t health stuff twice a day and am adding water to them to try n up his intake a little

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It sounds like your poor guy got the trifecta of misery. The science diet is of course for the crystals. I know some of the regular posters here use plain canned pumpkin ( not pie filling) for fiber and laxatone type products for cats with hairball issues to grease the insides. If the Pheno was an opiate and it messed up his system temporarily the vet might be able to prescribe something to get things moving again.

L lysine works wonders on URI. Again I'd ask your vet for something to stimulate normal digestion which it seems should have come on the second go round with an enema.

dfelt987 said:

Oh yeah and as of today he has a fever of 104 I'm not sure if I remembered that in the post or not. Lotta issues going on with him and I tried my best to cover everything. He's had one hell of a rough week. And I'm just worried that there could be something else behind it all. Maybe I'm just paranoid but that's a lot of crap for a week

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Quite honestly I'd be on the phone with an ER vet or on the way. Because no one here can really diagnose what's going on and no one here wants to be responsible for you losing your pet over some home remedy of false comfort. I believe in going with my gut on these things. You know your cat best and if something is really eating at you act on it.

This particular e.r. vet has.... how does one say... I guess the polite way would be left an unsavory taste in our mouths with our other feline friend( Putting him thru an unnecessary surgery after saying he had to be put down for an issue we later had diagnosed, a few days later, as flutd (feline lower urinary tract disease)... BTW that particular feline is now 9 years old and doing incredibly well and is trying to care for windsor now so the emergency vet is a no go due to their in ability to diagnose even common things

dfelt987 said:

This particular e.r. vet has.... how does one say... I guess the polite way would be left an unsavory taste in our mouths with our other feline friend( Putting him thru an unnecessary surgery after saying he had to be put down for an issue we later had diagnosed, a few days later, as flutd (feline lower urinary tract disease)... BTW that particular feline is now 9 years old and doing incredibly well and is trying to care for windsor now so the emergency vet is a no go due to their in ability to diagnose even common things

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Wow. but it proves my point about trusting your gut.  I'm dealing with an unsavory taste from a local vet right now which means we have to travel almost 70 miles if we needed an ER vet. I'd probably minimize food intake and make sure he stayed well hydrated and head for the regular vet in the morning.  Don't you hate when someone says that. Just drop everything and go to the vet. Which is what most of us do. We had to cancel a favorite convention early next year to cover the vet bills from our debacle. My cat is seeing an ophthalmologist at 200 bucks a pop.