Long story short, one of my cats had bouts of random vomiting for about a year, and about 6-8 months ago started getting bad constipation where he wouldn't go for days, and when he did try to go it'd get stuck and he'd force and vomit and we had to bring him to the ER vet to get cleared out. He was put on PEG 3350 about 5 months ago. He also had bumps on his legs that turned out to be an allergic in nature after biopsy. One of the ER vet mentioned possibly IBD with lowered motility, potentially because of a food allergy, so we excluded chicken from his diet about 6 weeks ago. He's also been doing better with a low fiber diet (the high fiber he was prescribed at first just plugged him up even more).
The lumps on his paws disappeared after the no chicken, and he started to have the urge to go defecate almost every day, so it seems excluding chicken helped wit that, but he kept getting stuck and needing ER help, so we scheduled an appointment with his usual vet. She basically completely brushed aside the hypothesis of food allergy, that nothing pointed to that, and she felt a mass and recommended an ultrasound and implying this was a cancer.
His ultrasound report mentions thickening of the small intestine and some swelling of lymph nodes but no masses, based on his general health (no lethargy or unexplained weight loss) the radiologist tends towards IBD but can't exclude SCL. So, we excluded a mass, but are facing potential SCL. I'm thinking of going to internal medicine directly to get him the proper care but they might not be available rapidly, and I'm just worried a delay of even a few days for treatment could be bad for him.
We got him some B12 drops in the meantime and are changing his food to a novel single protein (rabbit), but any advice would be appreciated. I'm very anxious and spent the weekend thinking this is a death sentence for my baby.
If we get him on pred, do topical formulations work? I've seen conflicting information about that. Can lymph node swelling occur with just IBD or is that a clear 100% sign of SCL?
The lumps on his paws disappeared after the no chicken, and he started to have the urge to go defecate almost every day, so it seems excluding chicken helped wit that, but he kept getting stuck and needing ER help, so we scheduled an appointment with his usual vet. She basically completely brushed aside the hypothesis of food allergy, that nothing pointed to that, and she felt a mass and recommended an ultrasound and implying this was a cancer.
His ultrasound report mentions thickening of the small intestine and some swelling of lymph nodes but no masses, based on his general health (no lethargy or unexplained weight loss) the radiologist tends towards IBD but can't exclude SCL. So, we excluded a mass, but are facing potential SCL. I'm thinking of going to internal medicine directly to get him the proper care but they might not be available rapidly, and I'm just worried a delay of even a few days for treatment could be bad for him.
We got him some B12 drops in the meantime and are changing his food to a novel single protein (rabbit), but any advice would be appreciated. I'm very anxious and spent the weekend thinking this is a death sentence for my baby.
If we get him on pred, do topical formulations work? I've seen conflicting information about that. Can lymph node swelling occur with just IBD or is that a clear 100% sign of SCL?
