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Hi,
We have an 18-year old cat, Dora, who has mostly been in good health. In fact, just last month, she had a senior blood test panel and everything was completely normal. However, she's had chronic diarrhea/loose stool for almost three months now. I have taken her to the vet at least two times, and she isn't getting better. They had me drop off her stool and just checked it for the normal parasites and said nothing was found. The last visit, they said that perhaps she had IBD and gave me metronidazole to give for a week as well as a round of prednisone. It hasn't worked, and in addition to her loose poop, she has terrible flatulence, like super smelly that is even worse. I'm wondering if she has an infection of some sort and the prednisone has made things worse.
We also tried probiotics with S. Boullardi for two weeks and that didn't help either. I should mention, that there was no change in her diet at all when the loose stool/diarrhea occurred.
I'm now wondering if she has some sort of infection that wasn't in the typical parasite check. I'm wondering if we should try to deworm her, which we haven't tried because our vet didn't think it was necessary because of the stool testing coming back negative. I have to admit I'm losing faith in our vet. She said the next step would be to an ultrasound. I'm resistant to that because one, our cat is very stressed out by the vet, and two, her age and sedation, and three, the cost. Given she's 18 years old, if it was something serious like cancer, we would opt to just provide palliative care.
Any thoughts on where to go from here?
We have an 18-year old cat, Dora, who has mostly been in good health. In fact, just last month, she had a senior blood test panel and everything was completely normal. However, she's had chronic diarrhea/loose stool for almost three months now. I have taken her to the vet at least two times, and she isn't getting better. They had me drop off her stool and just checked it for the normal parasites and said nothing was found. The last visit, they said that perhaps she had IBD and gave me metronidazole to give for a week as well as a round of prednisone. It hasn't worked, and in addition to her loose poop, she has terrible flatulence, like super smelly that is even worse. I'm wondering if she has an infection of some sort and the prednisone has made things worse.
We also tried probiotics with S. Boullardi for two weeks and that didn't help either. I should mention, that there was no change in her diet at all when the loose stool/diarrhea occurred.
I'm now wondering if she has some sort of infection that wasn't in the typical parasite check. I'm wondering if we should try to deworm her, which we haven't tried because our vet didn't think it was necessary because of the stool testing coming back negative. I have to admit I'm losing faith in our vet. She said the next step would be to an ultrasound. I'm resistant to that because one, our cat is very stressed out by the vet, and two, her age and sedation, and three, the cost. Given she's 18 years old, if it was something serious like cancer, we would opt to just provide palliative care.
Any thoughts on where to go from here?