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I'm new to this site. I have an almost 2 year old calico baby.
My cat has had a very rough medical history as a baby when we first got her. But she was a miracle baby. She seemed to be days away from death but we managed to save her.
However, she's going through something else now.
Lately, she's been lethargic, not eating, has a fever of 103, drinking A LOT of water, and her something is wrong with her eyes....
She's been a little sleepy lately. But I didn't think much of it. Maybe just being a little lazier than usual, however, for the past couple of weeks, it seemed like one eye looked a little different. I showed my family, we shined a light onto her eye, and oh my god...all you could see was black. And veins in the background. I quickly made a vet appointment and took her in.
Turns out, her retina was detached?!?
Her left eye (the "good" eye) had very enlarged squiggly veins you could see with a special device.
They tested her blood pressure and her temp.
She has high blood pressure and a fever. (High blood pressure for a 2 year old cat?!)
So they prescribed her some meds for her blood pressure and some anti-bacterial for her fever)
We also decide to do a full blood test and urine sample because we thought it was suspicious that she had high blood pressure at such a young age.
The results came in the next day...everything was fine...except her globulin levels. While it should have been at 5...it was at 10!!
My vet recommended me to look into something...FIP. He seemed extremely devasted over the phone and after doing some research of my own, I understand why.
I took her back into the vet the next day to check her temp (I heard FIP has a fever you can not reduce). Her fever did not go down. And after inspecting her "good" eye, it wasn't looking too good for that one either. It seemed to look a little cloudy and there was hemhorrage in one of the veins.
He concluded that it could be toxoplasmosis (but the meds she's on would kill it) but it seems to be most likely FIP.
I could get it tested. But it's pricey and it doesn't even result in proper answers.
We were thinking of waiting it out a little to see what happens.
So far, she's taking pain medication, L-Lysine, blood pressure medication, and the anti bacterial.
She doesn't really eat besides a couple of bites of dry food. (She stopped eating the tuna we give her twice a day. She'll just lick up some of the water. She only likes tuna. She hates wet cat food. So I'll try blending up the tuna in water. Or I'll try one type of wet cat food that I know she's obsessed with).
She drinks a TON of water. She plays sometimes. She has her hyper moments. But she sleeps most of the time.
Do these sound like FIP symptoms? Should I visit another vet and an opthomologist? The vet just recommended not even wasting my time with an eye doc. He seems to have given up hope on her. He just said it's in "god's hands now".
Sorry for the long post. I'm just so worried. She's my everything. I've never loved something/someone like I love her. She can't be taken away this early.
Please help!
I'm new to this site. I have an almost 2 year old calico baby.
My cat has had a very rough medical history as a baby when we first got her. But she was a miracle baby. She seemed to be days away from death but we managed to save her.
However, she's going through something else now.
Lately, she's been lethargic, not eating, has a fever of 103, drinking A LOT of water, and her something is wrong with her eyes....
She's been a little sleepy lately. But I didn't think much of it. Maybe just being a little lazier than usual, however, for the past couple of weeks, it seemed like one eye looked a little different. I showed my family, we shined a light onto her eye, and oh my god...all you could see was black. And veins in the background. I quickly made a vet appointment and took her in.
Turns out, her retina was detached?!?
Her left eye (the "good" eye) had very enlarged squiggly veins you could see with a special device.
They tested her blood pressure and her temp.
She has high blood pressure and a fever. (High blood pressure for a 2 year old cat?!)
So they prescribed her some meds for her blood pressure and some anti-bacterial for her fever)
We also decide to do a full blood test and urine sample because we thought it was suspicious that she had high blood pressure at such a young age.
The results came in the next day...everything was fine...except her globulin levels. While it should have been at 5...it was at 10!!
My vet recommended me to look into something...FIP. He seemed extremely devasted over the phone and after doing some research of my own, I understand why.
I took her back into the vet the next day to check her temp (I heard FIP has a fever you can not reduce). Her fever did not go down. And after inspecting her "good" eye, it wasn't looking too good for that one either. It seemed to look a little cloudy and there was hemhorrage in one of the veins.
He concluded that it could be toxoplasmosis (but the meds she's on would kill it) but it seems to be most likely FIP.
I could get it tested. But it's pricey and it doesn't even result in proper answers.
We were thinking of waiting it out a little to see what happens.
So far, she's taking pain medication, L-Lysine, blood pressure medication, and the anti bacterial.
She doesn't really eat besides a couple of bites of dry food. (She stopped eating the tuna we give her twice a day. She'll just lick up some of the water. She only likes tuna. She hates wet cat food. So I'll try blending up the tuna in water. Or I'll try one type of wet cat food that I know she's obsessed with).
She drinks a TON of water. She plays sometimes. She has her hyper moments. But she sleeps most of the time.
Do these sound like FIP symptoms? Should I visit another vet and an opthomologist? The vet just recommended not even wasting my time with an eye doc. He seems to have given up hope on her. He just said it's in "god's hands now".
Sorry for the long post. I'm just so worried. She's my everything. I've never loved something/someone like I love her. She can't be taken away this early.
Please help!