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Hi all,
I honestly just want to vent a bit. I'm still on my mission to try and find a way to make my cat's stool a little softer - he's on a home cooked diet and poops every 3-4 days, very well formed stools that are on the dry side.
He has presumptive IBD and the inflammation is on his colon, and seemingly anything new causes a flare up that results in bright red blood on top of his stool - which resolves soon after the new irritant is removed from his diet.
I've tried: egg yolk powder, Royal Canin's Fiber Response (which is a big hit in the Feline Megacolon group on Facebook), and Miralax. Yes, even freaking Miralax, which apparently is used by everyone's and their mother's cats when they have constipation issues, causes blood on the stool of my cat. Vet puts it down to the inflammation, and I know she's right because, like I said, as soon as I stop whatever I just tried to introduce, the blood is gone (well, it can take a couple of bowel movements for it to clear up completely, but it always does). It rarely comes back unless I try introducing something else - the exception is when his stool is on the large side and dry, but then I know it's more that it's hurt a bit on the way out.
It's so frustrating... how can I possibly find something that could help him when he reacts so poorly to everything? When it comes to food, I've been told by another vet (his old one) that I could insist on it a bit and it, if he wasn't actually intolerant to it, it could be just the initial reaction and would soon go away. But I get nervous when I see it, so I always stop. He seems to have become slightly more tolerant to egg yolk powder, for instance, if I don't over do it (overdoing it these days caused vomiting, actually, not blood on stool).
As long as I don't try anything new, we're grand. It's like he's doomed to eat this turkey recipe forever - which would also be bad, then, since it could eventually lead to an intolerance. We can't win.
I honestly just want to vent a bit. I'm still on my mission to try and find a way to make my cat's stool a little softer - he's on a home cooked diet and poops every 3-4 days, very well formed stools that are on the dry side.
He has presumptive IBD and the inflammation is on his colon, and seemingly anything new causes a flare up that results in bright red blood on top of his stool - which resolves soon after the new irritant is removed from his diet.
I've tried: egg yolk powder, Royal Canin's Fiber Response (which is a big hit in the Feline Megacolon group on Facebook), and Miralax. Yes, even freaking Miralax, which apparently is used by everyone's and their mother's cats when they have constipation issues, causes blood on the stool of my cat. Vet puts it down to the inflammation, and I know she's right because, like I said, as soon as I stop whatever I just tried to introduce, the blood is gone (well, it can take a couple of bowel movements for it to clear up completely, but it always does). It rarely comes back unless I try introducing something else - the exception is when his stool is on the large side and dry, but then I know it's more that it's hurt a bit on the way out.
It's so frustrating... how can I possibly find something that could help him when he reacts so poorly to everything? When it comes to food, I've been told by another vet (his old one) that I could insist on it a bit and it, if he wasn't actually intolerant to it, it could be just the initial reaction and would soon go away. But I get nervous when I see it, so I always stop. He seems to have become slightly more tolerant to egg yolk powder, for instance, if I don't over do it (overdoing it these days caused vomiting, actually, not blood on stool).
As long as I don't try anything new, we're grand. It's like he's doomed to eat this turkey recipe forever - which would also be bad, then, since it could eventually lead to an intolerance. We can't win.