Hi everyone. I'm new here but have been searching for anything on histoplasmosis in cats. Read the thread from back in 2010 so I hope someone will have some info on this. This is kind of a long story so bare with me. I live in Oklahoma now. I moved from Alabama about 9 years ago. I had 2 house cats that stayed inside most of the time. Occasionally they went out but never far from the house. I had to move back to Alabama for a year in 2008 and my cats had to live outside and in our garage. They never wandered off, just stayed close. After I moved back to Ok. in 2009 (about 8 months later) I noticed my older cat started breathing rapid and was not eating as well. I took her to the vet in April of 2010 and they said it was asthma. Don't remember them doing any x-ray, but they may have. She continued to be so-so, not doing great but not any worse. I think she was given medicine that I gave at home. Anyway, by Oct. she was getting worse again so I took her back to the vet and they did x-ray (chest) and said she had fungal pneumonia or cancer. It turned out to be the pneumonia (I think it was histoplasmosis. From what I've read, that is a different fungi than fungal pneu). We treated her with medicine (again I can't remember if it was itraconazole or not), but she just got worse and I had her put to sleep. Two years later my other cat got sick with kind of the same thing only her symptoms were different. She would throw up ever so often, then one day she threw up big time and started staggering around like she had lost her neurologic function. This was Christmas eve and no vets were open so I took her to an emergency clinic in the next town. They were puzzled and thought she couldn't see. They were nice enough to keep her overnight and send her to her regular vet the next day (of course I paid through the _______ for all the treatment). They kept her several days at my vet and she did get better so then we started the treatment for what I thought was an autoimmune disease. I never did understand exactly what she had, but she lived for a few months after that. (All this was costing me a fortune and I only have SS). She went blind and had her ups and downs before she eventually got sick on the weekend(naturally) and no vets open. I had been gone most all that day and she died early the next morning. Now I have 2 new cats that were rescue cats from my son. The reason I'm relaying all this is that now one of these cats has histoplasmosis now. He just started showing symptoms about 2 weeks ago. Both of these cats (fixed males) are from Alabama and stayed in all the time at my son's, but one of them came from the Bronx in New York and the other was a rescue that my son took from his vet. Don't know the history on him before that except that he was run over and had a broken leg that the vet fixed and asked my son if he would take him. I think he's had him about 2 years. His symptoms are rapid respirations (like in the 60's to 80's sometimes). I've been to the vet with him and this is what they diagnosed, but that was on Fri. and I can't get anymore itraconazole until next week. I had some in my ****. that just expired about 4 days ago and my vet said go ahead and start him on it, but he's getting worse. He hasn't eaten in a couple of days and I don't think he drank hardly any water yesterday or today so far. The med. tastes so bad to him that it makes him very agitated and breathe even faster. I cut the dosage in half and give it at different times and try to disguise it with wet cat food, but neither of these cats will touch canned food. So I'm in a dilemma worrying about him and if he's even going to make it until tomorrow and then it will take a week probably to get his new medicine. Anyway, I guess I'm just wanting to talk about it with people who are cat lovers and see what you think. Thanks for reading this.