Hey all,
I really need some help here as I feel so utterly helpless for my cat. Poop (Siamese, age 7) has been vomiting constantly for almost three months now. What started as “maybe an ulcer” developed to an IBD diagnosis last Saturday.
I love my vet, but I feel like I’m getting absolutely nowhere. I live in a small (albeit densely populated) town in Texas and my vet is the only walk-in option and the other vets are booked months in advance. The earliest appointment I have booked in the first week of October.
Onto my cat — she can’t stop vomiting; almost daily now. With the IBD diagnosis, the vet prescribed Hills d/d food and my cat is eating it (begrudgingly). The vomiting came back three days after she started it. Last Saturday, she got a Cerenia shot, prednisone shot, Convenia shot as the treatment for the official IBD diagnosis. It worked but only for three days.
That’s pretty much all my vet keeps doing - those three shots. We’ve done multiple bloodwork panels and X-rays and my cat is fine. She acts fine daily, goes to bathroom just fine, and eats and drinks water just fine too. The vomit is usually only just bile. She’ll even play immediately after vomiting too. She’s fine, just the vomiting. She’s nauseous all the time too. The lip licking and lip smacking is a 24/7 thing. We tried 1/4 of a 10mg Famotidine tablet and nothing, the vomiting never stopped. Another thing — I’m not sure if it’s relevant — is that I take care of my grandparents. They’re incontinent and have Alzheimer’s and as a result some of their clothing can be smelly. They just take it off and leave it on the floor wherever they are. If I don’t pick it up immediately, my cat LOVES to smell the stinky stuff, and that usually ramps up the vomiting like crazy. As a result, I’ve kept her confined to my room (food and water and litter box are all here). She does manage to sneak out from my room when I forget to close the door.
I feel so helpless and so bad that I can’t make my cat feel better. Does anyone have any next steps to tell my vet or to do at home? I’ve tried reading online about IBD but there’s just so much information and avenues so I’m really lost. Thanks so much!
I really need some help here as I feel so utterly helpless for my cat. Poop (Siamese, age 7) has been vomiting constantly for almost three months now. What started as “maybe an ulcer” developed to an IBD diagnosis last Saturday.
I love my vet, but I feel like I’m getting absolutely nowhere. I live in a small (albeit densely populated) town in Texas and my vet is the only walk-in option and the other vets are booked months in advance. The earliest appointment I have booked in the first week of October.
Onto my cat — she can’t stop vomiting; almost daily now. With the IBD diagnosis, the vet prescribed Hills d/d food and my cat is eating it (begrudgingly). The vomiting came back three days after she started it. Last Saturday, she got a Cerenia shot, prednisone shot, Convenia shot as the treatment for the official IBD diagnosis. It worked but only for three days.
That’s pretty much all my vet keeps doing - those three shots. We’ve done multiple bloodwork panels and X-rays and my cat is fine. She acts fine daily, goes to bathroom just fine, and eats and drinks water just fine too. The vomit is usually only just bile. She’ll even play immediately after vomiting too. She’s fine, just the vomiting. She’s nauseous all the time too. The lip licking and lip smacking is a 24/7 thing. We tried 1/4 of a 10mg Famotidine tablet and nothing, the vomiting never stopped. Another thing — I’m not sure if it’s relevant — is that I take care of my grandparents. They’re incontinent and have Alzheimer’s and as a result some of their clothing can be smelly. They just take it off and leave it on the floor wherever they are. If I don’t pick it up immediately, my cat LOVES to smell the stinky stuff, and that usually ramps up the vomiting like crazy. As a result, I’ve kept her confined to my room (food and water and litter box are all here). She does manage to sneak out from my room when I forget to close the door.
I feel so helpless and so bad that I can’t make my cat feel better. Does anyone have any next steps to tell my vet or to do at home? I’ve tried reading online about IBD but there’s just so much information and avenues so I’m really lost. Thanks so much!