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November 2021 (3 months ago) I left my 2 cats in my friend’s care for 2 days over Thanksgiving - I came home to find my 1.5 year old male cat’s back twitching a lot - he seemed very stressed and confused, licking and biting as if he had fleas or mites. I scheduled an appointment with the vet for the following week and treated both him (Tony) and my 2yo female cat (Frankie) with advantage. Tony’s issues somewhat subsided by the time I took them to the vet - they didn’t find any fleas and found their ears to be clean and told me to take Tony to a neurologist believing his back twitch to be neurological and not something they could help with. When I brought them home his twitching/scratching/irritation became even worse (I assumed from the stress of the visit) I then paid $200 for a neurologist to tell me he needed to go back to the vet for basic blood work, X-rays and a skin scrape before I jumped to neurological conclusions. So I did all of the above (minus X-rays) and again they found nothing wrong. In the meantime my other cat Frankie started to exhibit similar issues just less intense/frequent (twitching back, head shaking and scratching, flicking her paws and aggressively licking her irritated coat.) The vet prescribed Tony with gabapentin to calm his twitching and prescribed both cats revolution- told me to treat them with three doses each incase it’s some sort of mite they couldn’t find with the skin tape test. (They wouldn’t do a skin scrape because they said they only do that if there are lesions on their ears). I’ve now treated them with one round of revolution and they only seem to be getting worse. I’ve now booked an appointment with a dermatologist for this upcoming April to see if this is some sort of allergy considering both cats are exhibiting similar issues and aren’t from the same litter. I’ve spent $1k and haven’t gotten any answers so I’m hoping to post about this experience before dishing out another $1k to see if I can get better help/advice online then I seem to be getting with my local vets and specialists.