Hi guys,
I had originally posted a while ago about my cats lungs and had mentioned part of this issue at the end of that post. My cat (Captain) has not been eating very well for a while. I took him into the vet at the beginning of the month because he had been pretty immobile and not eating. Vet discovered some pain in his left back leg, prescribed him Metacam (And yes, I know the dangers) every other day for 10 days. A couple days after this, I found a bump on that leg, right at the Achilles. I took him back into the vet, who took an x-ray, and it barely, if at all, shows up. Was told to just watch it. Everything seemed to be going okay other than eating, he definitely has the appetite and wants to eat, but if he eats it's very little. A week after finishing the Metacam, I called the vet and told her that he has gone back to the way he was before, so she prescribed him more Metacam at a lower dose and told me to re-check is blood work at the end of February. His bump has decreased in size a good bit. A few days ago, I noticed one of his eyes was not dilating. Made him an appt on Friday (today), but yesterday in the morning, he was very irritable, seemed to be turning his head, and his tail was fluffing, so I dropped him off a the vet. Vet called and said he has a detached retina, probably caused by hypertension, but they do not have a BP cuff. I picked Captain up to go to the ophthalmologist where we were referred and notice in his chart has had lost another POUND since 1-5. His vet said could be hyperthyroidism and he would have gone ahead and drawn blood, but we had to be at the specialist and he didn't want Captain to be stressed. The ophthalmologist, confirmed he does have a detached retina and high BP. She also was leaning greatly toward hyperthyroidism. She drew blood, which I took back to be regular vet to run a full blood panel. To the vets surprise the T4 came back normal, said WBC was high and it might be due to an infection in his bump, gave him Clindamycin and Amlodipine for his BP and told me to hold off on the Metacam until we can get this straightened out. He said he would send off the blood for T3 testing. We left and he ran more blood test. The vet called and said his kidney levels were normal; however his calcium was high. He said that could be a fluke, but I need to bring him in next week for more Calcium testing. Apparently between that and the bump, we might be looking at cancer. Today, I came home from work, offered him a few different things to eat, he sniffed them then did nothing. I decided to get a spoon to see if holding it higher would help and it did! As long as it was where he didn't have to move his neck, he would stare straight ahead and lick at it. It makes me feel good that at least I got a little something down him, but I was wondering if anyone has gone through this before. I do have a call into the vet to see if he can make some recommendations.
Thanks for reading all of this!
I had originally posted a while ago about my cats lungs and had mentioned part of this issue at the end of that post. My cat (Captain) has not been eating very well for a while. I took him into the vet at the beginning of the month because he had been pretty immobile and not eating. Vet discovered some pain in his left back leg, prescribed him Metacam (And yes, I know the dangers) every other day for 10 days. A couple days after this, I found a bump on that leg, right at the Achilles. I took him back into the vet, who took an x-ray, and it barely, if at all, shows up. Was told to just watch it. Everything seemed to be going okay other than eating, he definitely has the appetite and wants to eat, but if he eats it's very little. A week after finishing the Metacam, I called the vet and told her that he has gone back to the way he was before, so she prescribed him more Metacam at a lower dose and told me to re-check is blood work at the end of February. His bump has decreased in size a good bit. A few days ago, I noticed one of his eyes was not dilating. Made him an appt on Friday (today), but yesterday in the morning, he was very irritable, seemed to be turning his head, and his tail was fluffing, so I dropped him off a the vet. Vet called and said he has a detached retina, probably caused by hypertension, but they do not have a BP cuff. I picked Captain up to go to the ophthalmologist where we were referred and notice in his chart has had lost another POUND since 1-5. His vet said could be hyperthyroidism and he would have gone ahead and drawn blood, but we had to be at the specialist and he didn't want Captain to be stressed. The ophthalmologist, confirmed he does have a detached retina and high BP. She also was leaning greatly toward hyperthyroidism. She drew blood, which I took back to be regular vet to run a full blood panel. To the vets surprise the T4 came back normal, said WBC was high and it might be due to an infection in his bump, gave him Clindamycin and Amlodipine for his BP and told me to hold off on the Metacam until we can get this straightened out. He said he would send off the blood for T3 testing. We left and he ran more blood test. The vet called and said his kidney levels were normal; however his calcium was high. He said that could be a fluke, but I need to bring him in next week for more Calcium testing. Apparently between that and the bump, we might be looking at cancer. Today, I came home from work, offered him a few different things to eat, he sniffed them then did nothing. I decided to get a spoon to see if holding it higher would help and it did! As long as it was where he didn't have to move his neck, he would stare straight ahead and lick at it. It makes me feel good that at least I got a little something down him, but I was wondering if anyone has gone through this before. I do have a call into the vet to see if he can make some recommendations.
Thanks for reading all of this!