Tuffy is bleeding!!

not too familiar with your thread either, but thought id give my input..the medicine you got is for ulcers??
See if you notice a difference. I work in the health field, plus have stomach ulcers myself..and they can cause some serious bleeding from the bowels..

The red blood would tell you the ulcer is currently bleeding..if it darkens up that just means its old blood...

let us know if it makes stuff better, i wish him the best

Unclotted red blood dripping from the rectum suggests a problem in the rectum, anus or colon and is called lower GI bleeding. Have his anal glands been checked? It could also be colitis (colonic inflamation) and that can be caused by food allergies - they easy way to test that is to switch him to a food that has one source of protein and one source of carbs. Your vet is right - stay away from the cheap stuff and give Natural Balance Venecin (sp?) and green pee a shot - it just might do the trick - it did for my Loki.

Good luck with your baby boy

If his poops are too hard and he's bleeding from that, try adding a bit of plain canned pumpkin to his diet. Pumpkin is a natural laxative and stool softener and it will help him not only pass his stools, but soften them so that he doesn't get torn up when pooping. I'd give it at least a week on the pumpkin (if your cat likes it) to really notice a difference.

My Callie used to scoot her rear after pooping and everything checked out fine with her at the vet's (blood, anal glands, examination). I started giving her just a bit of pumpkin twice a day with her wet food and the scooting has stopped!!

Stephanie

How is Tuffy today? I truly hope he will get better soon!

He is doing fine. His butt must be a little sore from all the poking and proding yesturday though. He acts fine, like nothing is wrong.

Good! I am keeping my fingers crossed for him!

YAY! This has gotta be a good sign!!!

Tuffy is doing ok but it is a pain to break the pills in half and grind them up then get the stuff into a little syringe then get 3cc of water mixed in then I have to give him only half of the mix at a time. [1 1/2cc 2 times a day.] It must not taste to bad because he don't fight to hard when I give it to him.

Great to hear!!!

Next time as the Vet to give you the liquid form. Any pill can be made into a liquid in various flavors such as tuna, beef or chicken.

I got a small bag of Iams hairball food to try and they all eat it except for Tuffy who is the one I got it for. I will have to mix it in with the Nutro I guess to get him to eat it. He is so set in his ways its hard to get him to try anything new. I even saw Missy eating it who is real fussy about what she eats.

Tuffy has started eating the hairball food. I took Tuffy camping with us for 3 days this last weekend. I could finally get to have him alone with his own litter box. He was not constipated [sp?] but not diarea either and he didn't bleed at all or seem to have any problems straining while going.

So I don't know why he bleeds sometimes. I have not seen him bleed again since I started this tread. I still wonder what is going on with him though. I really hope the vet is not over looking something bad going on with him. She has been so good with him till now I don't really want to start questioning if she is doing enough for Tuffy with this bleeding stuff.

Maybe it is from eating the cheap soft food for Missy, The bleeding seems to have started after he was eating Missy's food. Missy seams to like the iams hairball food so I have not gave them the soft food for a while now. I hope it is something as simple as that.

I shouldn't worry about it till it happens, but Tuffy is so close to me and I am with him that I don't know how I will be able to handle it when the time comes for him to go to kitty heaven.

I've just been reading this thread form the beginning....

You know, I think it's from the cheaper food. It's a shame little Missy won't eat the better stuff! There is a Science Diet - Sensitive Stomach Formula that might agree with him and be more soothing to his insides...

Karen

Well I came in tonight and picked up Tuffy and was petting him for a while and I then noticed blood on my shirt, So I pick him up again and sure enough he was bleeding again. But this time it was thick and was almost black, and some a real dark red.

So I guess I call the vet again. I am 99% sure it is not from constipation or passing a hair ball. I don't know what else is going on but we need to find out. I just hope the vet is convinced to look into other things that might be causing this to happen.

Poor Tuffy, I feel bad for him and all he has been through. Tuffy is the right name for him I guess.

Please tell me how it goes... FIngers

Tuffy goes in at 4:10 today. I hope we can figure out what is happening to him.

Well she checked him to see if he is anemic again and he is so he must be bleeding more than we thought. She put him on Albon and also some Pet-Tinic to help him build up his blood again.

She is wondering if he still has some little bug in him that the normal worm pills didn't get rid of. She said the name but it went in one ear and out the other for me.

I had wiped up some of the bloody mess he made late last night on a old white rag so she could get a look at it today. I told her it was much thicker and darker red than the last couple times.

She said to bring him back in about a month to see him again, unless he gets worse of coarse.

So that is the latest on Tuffy.

Would you please call your vet's office and ask a tech to look up Tuffy's diagnosis ---- the word that you don't remember.
They understand that it is difficult for lay people to remember unfamiliar medical terms,
so don't feel uncomfortable asking.
Then let us know....

Members who have had a cat with the same diagnosis,
might have some useful feedback for you.

So she gave you pills to build up the blood, but is doing nothing to figure out where the blood is coming from??? If that is the case, I would run, not walk to another vet!

I am sorry Tom, but this isn't right. If the vet thinks its a lingering parasite, it can be confirmed with further testing (even if it's giardia which can be diffcult to pick up on fecal exam if the cat isn't shedding cysts at the time, and may require serial stool samples). How can you treat the cat if you aren't sure what is wrong? If your vet was sure it is a lingering worm or parasite, then she should say so, but I don't hear you saying there was a definitive diagnosis.

Bottom line, your cat is now anemic, time to be sure what the source of the bleeding is. I'd ask for a referral/consultation with a specialist, tell your vet you want to pursue this now, versus the taking another month.

If they won't consider it, time to find another vet, I'm sorry to say.