About three weeks ago, my 9 years old cat suddenly acted weird. He constantly hunched over, paused and stared at me. He was eating food, drinking water, and going to litter box fine with nothing looked bad. After 1.5 weeks, I finally brought him to the vet and we did blood work and urine test, and nothing looked too bad, except his liver value is bit off (but not too off); From the result, the vet recommended B12 and another short-term medication, perhaps IBD (bowel disease) so this medication can be used to rule out. However, nothing has improved after few days, and I felt like he has vestibular disease just the way he acted (kept rotating one side, and loosing balance). About 2 weeks since I first noticed the symptom, I saw him more obvious sign of head tilt and shaking head mildly, so I brought him to another vet, and the vet said he has vestibular disease. We got small number of steroid but the vet recommended me to get some consultation from neurologist. I booked for the neurologist and that won't happen until end of next month. Now, I am still trying to figure out what is going to my cat and hopefully get some advice who has experienced similarly?
It has been 3 weeks since I first saw my cat's behavior change. Since, there is one behavior I kept seeing from him, and from the search, it seems to be more like a focal seizure. He just lowers his neck, pauses there awhile and have some facial twitch and seems out of focus. I've seen this symptom since I notice this behavior change. I am bit frustrated how the neurologist appointment won't happen over a month from now. I am trying to figure what I can do meanwhile to make him better. Also if anyone has experienced similar as mine? I saw that vestibular disease usually recovers 2-3 weeks, but since I passed 3 weeks, it worries me a lot. On the other hand, he eats and uses litter box fine as usual.
It has been 3 weeks since I first saw my cat's behavior change. Since, there is one behavior I kept seeing from him, and from the search, it seems to be more like a focal seizure. He just lowers his neck, pauses there awhile and have some facial twitch and seems out of focus. I've seen this symptom since I notice this behavior change. I am bit frustrated how the neurologist appointment won't happen over a month from now. I am trying to figure what I can do meanwhile to make him better. Also if anyone has experienced similar as mine? I saw that vestibular disease usually recovers 2-3 weeks, but since I passed 3 weeks, it worries me a lot. On the other hand, he eats and uses litter box fine as usual.