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Jim, I'm so sorry to hear this about Noelle. Have you had a recent ultrasound done? She does sound like she's in pain and pancreatitis can certainly do that.
Denice - we learned that Spencer wasn't going to eat after we had him about 5-6 days so syringe feeding was the first thing we tried after all 'tempting foods' failed. Since I've never had to deal with anything like this before, other than my two day-olds being bottle fed, this was all trial & error for me...mostly error because he couldn't/wouldn't swallow the food. I feared shooting it down his throat for fear of it going into his windpipe or lungs...
I tried the syringe feeding with Patches and he still went into fatty liver disease. Some cats are easier to syringe feed than others. Patches is easy to pill but not to syringe feed which is really odd. An overweight cat is more prone to fatty liver problems than one that is normal weight. Patches wasn't overweight and a vet, not the one that I take my cats to now, told me that fatty liver wasn't a concern because he wasn't overweight. I waited too long before taking him to another vet and he had fatty liver.
Jim - Spencer is taking a pain med as well but I'm not sure what it is. I will try to find out what it is. It's a tiny pill that we have to crush into powder & then add water & administer that way.I have to say, the only time Noelle won't eat is when she Is having a flare up. Her flare ups thankfully only last a couple of hours and trust me even that feels like an eternity. We have her on 2.5 mg prednisolone daily again since every time I taper her to every other day she has issues. I pray that it never gets to the point where she needs feeding tubes so I will continue to make sure she gets plenty of water in her raw diet and stays with her meds and her herbal pills. The worst she has been since going on her every day dose is occasionally she will look a little uncomfortable but it may just be the way she likes to sit lol. There has been no vomiting while on prednisolone and her appetite and weight have been great. I plan on bringing in her for routine blood work every 3 months as long as no other issues arise to ensure her liver and glucose stay normal.
I am sorry you lost your Jojo. These inflammation issues are so unpredictable as far as both severity and what parts of the body they affect. I have a kitty that started with IBD when he was 18 months old. He has had inflammation in his liver with one flare. He has recently developed an allergy to chicken. My other kitty is the same age, they will both be 11 this year, and hasn't had any inflammation issues yet.
We lost our Jojo this week to ongoing inflammatory issues that included but were not limited to triaditis. She developed asthma at 15 months, inflammatory bowel at about age 4, all the triaditis symptoms at age 6. We treated her with increased pred, metronidazole, buprenorphine and cerenia, as well as hydration when necessary. In the last 3 months she developed urinary cystitis...yet another inflammatory issue...and her triaditis flares...vomiting, pain, total inertia...got closer together. When we could no longer keep her pain-free for the most part, we did the only kind thing.