Cat Sitting Off To One Side and Limping

[Iraefer58]

Hi,
I apologize in advance for my English. .He is a 1.5 year old healthy scotishfold.But suddenly he starts to limping with his left rear leg, we went to vet they took an x-ray (actually twice), they found nothing.They applied some anti-inflomatary and just told to me ''may it is just a pinched nerve or strain on soft tissue, he gonna be heal on his own and be okay.Dont worry.''.After 1.5 months nothing is change he is actually not limbing its more seems like his left leg is a little bit stiffy when he walks ...I gently pushing to his rear left leg(directly from paw like he steping) to his belly while he is in supine position thus i can feel by his resistance to my pushing, its far weaker than right one.And when he sits off to one side- his right. He seems to be not evenly distributing his weight between his hind paws, as if he is trying to keep weight off his left paw.There is no other symptoms, he eats well, he is phsycialy abble to do whatever he wants...The local vet didnt make any palpation just took an x-ray, so i did a tibial compression test for checking cruciate ligament rupture, i am not a vet but with my limited understanding it isnt a cruciate ligament rupture.And i also checked kneecap dislocation, that's not the problem either.Currently in my location there is no other vet. So I cannot take another opinion from a proffesional.I upload his x-ray, and another cat photo(its from another topic at this forum) as an example for you to have better undestanding to the way how he sits, that cat sitting same with him.( unfortunately i cannot captured a good photo of him while he sitting). I’m just curious if anyone has ever come across this before? What should i do?.One of my friend suggest to me to take him to different city to see another vet and MRI scanning, but its quite expensive as you can imagine...

Images;

1-)X-ray
2-) Sitting off to one side

 

[fionasmom]

Welcome to The Cat Site! There can be a lot of causes for limping, but you have probably ruled out a great deal of them. Your cat is not injured, at least not that you knew about, does not have a foot or paw issue, and is not showing signs of other illnesses with which limping might occur as an additional symptom.

I do understand that you do not have the ability to run to a whole bunch of specialists in order to get the correct diagnosis. You might consider going back to the same vet, who might think that everything is better now with the anti-inflammatory meds, and let him see that nothing improved. Ask him where to go from there. Many vets will start out with the most common or logical diagnosis before jumping into other diagnostics.

MRIs are expensive but, if this is neurological (which opens a whole new area of investigation), might be the only way to get to the bottom of this. I don't think your cat has a heart condition, but HCM can cause rear leg weakness, so you might want to have the vet rule that out.

 

[mrsgreenjeens]

Scottish Folds have a genetic issue that often causes limping and this could be the issue here. Plain old genetics . It's the reason their ears don't stand up...the cartilage isn't as strong as in other cats, and that effects their joints as well. Here is another similar thread: limping - meloxicam / metacam

 

[Iraefer58]

Welcome to The Cat Site! There can be a lot of causes for limping, but you have probably ruled out a great deal of them. Your cat is not injured, at least not that you knew about, does not have a foot or paw issue, and is not showing signs of other illnesses with which limping might occur as an additional symptom.

I do understand that you do not have the ability to run to a whole bunch of specialists in order to get the correct diagnosis. You might consider going back to the same vet, who might think that everything is better now with the anti-inflammatory meds, and let him see that nothing improved. Ask him where to go from there. Many vets will start out with the most common or logical diagnosis before jumping into other diagnostics.

MRIs are expensive but, if this is neurological (which opens a whole new area of investigation), might be the only way to get to the bottom of this. I don't think your cat has a heart condition, but HCM can cause rear leg weakness, so you might want to have the vet rule that out.

Many thanks for the prompt reply. Yes, i revisted the vet, at the first visit he took an x-ray and gave oral nsaid. On the our second visit he also took an x-ray and made an injection form of a nsaid.. So not much has changed in his approach..As i mentioned before even he didnt do a proper palpation...

Scottish Folds have a genetic issue that often causes limping and this could be the issue here. Plain old genetics . It's the reason their ears don't stand up...the cartilage isn't as strong as in other cats, and that effects their joints as well. Here is another similar thread: limping - meloxicam / metacam

Thank you very much for your reply.Yes, unfortunately i am aware of the susceptibility to skeleton and muscle diseases... Based on what I've read, I'm guessing that genetic issue mostly affects to the skeleton system (joints, bones etc).As you can see on the x-ray its seems like there is no problem with it.His story which is before we meet is also so sad, thats why i wrapping him up in cotton wool... and that genetic situation make me much anxious about his health.

 

[Iraefer58]

Update to whom may have same problem and search it on google and find nothing:

We went to another city and visit to pet orthopedic specialist(who is really famous countrywide on his own profession) . He made a very detailed palpation (30 minute or something like that) after that he just said he dont want to appy sedative for MRI scanning for such nonessential situation like that. Said its just a tendinitis, and its take time to heal by ownself, there is nothing to do about it, unless take him to the small room without any high places for decreasing physical activity.

 

[fionasmom]

Thank you for letting us know!