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My cat, Scooter, who is about 15 years old, was just diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. The vet ran a blood work up for him because he had lost some weigh since his last visit. He also happened to have a snotty nose on this visit. The blood tests showed the issue with the thyroid plus a slightly elevated white blood count which the vet thought could be related to the snotty nose. So per the vet, I started him on the thyroid medication methimazole, which is 1/4 of a tiny pill, twice daily. AND the vet gave me Baytril tabs to give Scooter, once a day which is a broad spectrum antibiotic. Both were just started on Thursday (December 31).
He usually has a hearty appetite (courtesy of the hyperthyroid I suspect) and ate fine last night after the Baytril and one dose of the methimazole, but this morning he threw up and had one episode of loose stool diarrhea. Sleeping pretty much all day. He did perk up a bit, but has no interest in food. He'll get up and go drink water every few hours. I suspect that it is the Baytril since the amount of medication for that is significantly more than the methimazole.
It will be time for another dose of the latter here in a few minutes. I'll contact the vet tomorrow (since one of my other cats goes in for her vaccinations and check up) but my inclination is to not give him the Baytril tab until after I talk to them.
Does anyone else have experience with that rapid of a side effect with the methimazole after 2 doses? I'm hoping it isn't this medication that is causing his upset tummy since the obvious implication that it's the first course of action for the thyroid issue.
He normally is chipper and heathy appetite sort of cat so definitely one or both of the medications are making him feel terrible.
He usually has a hearty appetite (courtesy of the hyperthyroid I suspect) and ate fine last night after the Baytril and one dose of the methimazole, but this morning he threw up and had one episode of loose stool diarrhea. Sleeping pretty much all day. He did perk up a bit, but has no interest in food. He'll get up and go drink water every few hours. I suspect that it is the Baytril since the amount of medication for that is significantly more than the methimazole.
It will be time for another dose of the latter here in a few minutes. I'll contact the vet tomorrow (since one of my other cats goes in for her vaccinations and check up) but my inclination is to not give him the Baytril tab until after I talk to them.
Does anyone else have experience with that rapid of a side effect with the methimazole after 2 doses? I'm hoping it isn't this medication that is causing his upset tummy since the obvious implication that it's the first course of action for the thyroid issue.
He normally is chipper and heathy appetite sort of cat so definitely one or both of the medications are making him feel terrible.