Has anyone's cat ever had a colonoscopy? Mine is likely to have one next week, and I was wondering what to expect and what's involved. Is the cat anesthetized? Did you have to withhold food for 12 hours beforehand?
This is to try to figure out what caused his colitis, which started suddenly three months ago and won't stop. It hasn't responded to antibiotics, pro-biotics, worming, or an allergy diet, and blood tests and bacterial tests haven't shown anything. The colonoscopy (and possibly an ultrasound) are the last steps. If they show nothing, then I can rest assured that he doesn't have polyps or some kind of malformation or ingested foreign body, and that nothing too serious is wrong. After that a high-fiber diet is the only thing left; I didn't want to try that until everything was checked out, since I had tried adding some canned pumpkin for fiber but saw no change.
I doubt it is stress, since the cat has never seemed more mellow, and he's been very stressed at times in the past and never showed these symptoms.
Any experience with colitis would be helpful. Thanks.
This is to try to figure out what caused his colitis, which started suddenly three months ago and won't stop. It hasn't responded to antibiotics, pro-biotics, worming, or an allergy diet, and blood tests and bacterial tests haven't shown anything. The colonoscopy (and possibly an ultrasound) are the last steps. If they show nothing, then I can rest assured that he doesn't have polyps or some kind of malformation or ingested foreign body, and that nothing too serious is wrong. After that a high-fiber diet is the only thing left; I didn't want to try that until everything was checked out, since I had tried adding some canned pumpkin for fiber but saw no change.
I doubt it is stress, since the cat has never seemed more mellow, and he's been very stressed at times in the past and never showed these symptoms.
Any experience with colitis would be helpful. Thanks.