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Long story short my 15 year old siamese started doing this out of nowhere like 4 months ago so we took them to a vet that turned out to be crappy. During the month with them a few times the cat would get a bit lethargic and not eat as much and walk around on his hocks, missing jumps, etc.
Took him to another vet and he ended up getting his spleen taken out due to mast cell and he had a bit of fluid/discoloration/piece on his liver. They did tests and also explored and they have been treating him for ibd since surgery just over 2 months ago with pred.
He went from 6.5 pounds after taking spleen out to 8 3/4 pounds as of today on 2.5mg low does of pred/day.
He has only barfed up one hairball and a portion of a feeding since coming home from surgery so amazing difference. Also he came home the day of surgery and has been bouncing around better than before surgery until yesterday when we noticed him acting a little bit goofy with the eating and walking funny on the back legs although he wasn't on his hocks! So seems like a mini crash.
Of course word is in for our vet and hope to talk early in the am.
He did the hocks thing a few times in the 6 or so weeks before surgery. It came with being lethargic and not eating/drinking as much, and this was before any steroids.
I tried searching and didn't find much and was trying to get ammo. I would have assumed with the multiple blood tests the multiple people seeing my cat would have picked up on diabetes or something, or is it not that simple?
I was hoping I could narrow the causes down and do some research.
Another thing is even though they were treating him for ibd, we never put the cat on a regime for the sub fluids and b12 shots i am seeing people mention.
And they did mention being anemic during initial contact after the first crash but things were looking good near surgery with the last blood test, so i assume it went away if thats even possible?
thanks for any info!
Took him to another vet and he ended up getting his spleen taken out due to mast cell and he had a bit of fluid/discoloration/piece on his liver. They did tests and also explored and they have been treating him for ibd since surgery just over 2 months ago with pred.
He went from 6.5 pounds after taking spleen out to 8 3/4 pounds as of today on 2.5mg low does of pred/day.
He has only barfed up one hairball and a portion of a feeding since coming home from surgery so amazing difference. Also he came home the day of surgery and has been bouncing around better than before surgery until yesterday when we noticed him acting a little bit goofy with the eating and walking funny on the back legs although he wasn't on his hocks! So seems like a mini crash.
Of course word is in for our vet and hope to talk early in the am.
He did the hocks thing a few times in the 6 or so weeks before surgery. It came with being lethargic and not eating/drinking as much, and this was before any steroids.
I tried searching and didn't find much and was trying to get ammo. I would have assumed with the multiple blood tests the multiple people seeing my cat would have picked up on diabetes or something, or is it not that simple?
I was hoping I could narrow the causes down and do some research.
Another thing is even though they were treating him for ibd, we never put the cat on a regime for the sub fluids and b12 shots i am seeing people mention.
And they did mention being anemic during initial contact after the first crash but things were looking good near surgery with the last blood test, so i assume it went away if thats even possible?
thanks for any info!
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