Stumbled across this site tonight and was wondering if anyone had any knowledge of how we could help make our cat more comfortable and possibly prolong his life a little. He's a persian who is only 5 years old but the both the vet and the specialist we've seen tell us that he has liver disease caused most likely by cancer. We came to the cancer conclusion because over the last 8 months or so, he's been on a round of 4 medications: denamarin, clavamox, ursodiel, and metronidazole. His values had been yo-yoing for a bit from 250, 130, 500, 250, 310, and now over 700. He also hasn't been eating consistently and is losing weight, we basically force feed him wet food half the time and he barely shows interest in dry food. He maybe sleeps more than he used to but it's hard to tell if that's a symptom of anything because he's always been an introverted cat anyway. He still is active when we play with him, wants attention, moves around the house, all the normal stuff. We wouldn't have even known he was sick if they hadn't done routine blood work on him prior to him getting his teeth cleaned. Despite that, it seems pretty clear that he's ill and may not be with us long if his values are any indication.
My question is if anyone has gone through this before and what, if anything, you did that seemed to help prolong the cat's life or at least seemed to make it more comfortable? I've read that thistle milk will help promote some liver health and that we should only be feeding him really high quality and simple food to give his liver as little work as possible but otherwise I don't know what else there is to even try. I was too shell shocked to really ask the doctor when he called with the numbers, I knew it could be bad but I didn't think his results would be that bad. We also give him a milk supplement for older cats at least twice a day since he's been eating so irregularly and needs the nutrients. Any help or advice anyone has would be a huge comfort
My question is if anyone has gone through this before and what, if anything, you did that seemed to help prolong the cat's life or at least seemed to make it more comfortable? I've read that thistle milk will help promote some liver health and that we should only be feeding him really high quality and simple food to give his liver as little work as possible but otherwise I don't know what else there is to even try. I was too shell shocked to really ask the doctor when he called with the numbers, I knew it could be bad but I didn't think his results would be that bad. We also give him a milk supplement for older cats at least twice a day since he's been eating so irregularly and needs the nutrients. Any help or advice anyone has would be a huge comfort