I'm so sorry. I'll keep her in my thoughts and prayers, miracles still do happen, don't give up. Just love her all you can right now......
A feeding tube saved Krista's life. I would do it again in a heartbeat! She never minded it except if I put the food in too fast or too cold. Once I figured that out, she was a model patient for all the time we had to use it. I wouldn't say her quality of life dipped at all for having it. She wore a special Kitty Kollar that kept the site protected and the tube strapped down and out of her way. Cat guardians are way more apprehensive about feeding tubes than the cats themselves.I would never put a cat through a feeding tube. That to me is not quality.
I have his prednisolone compounded into a chicken flavored liquid medicine, and I grind up the famotidine into a powder and make it into a slurry and use the same syringe with the chicken flavored pred. He gets a total of 15mg of pred a day, which is a lot..
Famotidine is extremely bitter and can cause extreme salivation....some people use a gelatin capsule for the (usual) 1/4 tablet dosage.
munch64 - how did you prevent the salivation ?
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They didn’t explain the slurry to me. I tried to give her the whole tablet and really struggled as the casing for the tablet pretty big. Do I just open the shell of the tablet mix it with water and give it her through the syeringe?I hope it helps her! Was the name Orafate? That medication is a huge tablet that is split into quarters. If so, that's another name for the med that helped Farley's GI bleeding/ulcers. It's the same as sucralfate. Did they explain how to give it? It works best if it's crushed and mixed with water into a slurry. It may still work given as a quarter tablet, but my vet said to give it as a slurry.
It works in your favor that she's only recently been diagnosed. Farley had his ultrasound in October 2018 after losing a lot of weight and multiple vet visits. And when I say we were closer to euthanizing him, we were close, within a day or two. That Missy's blood tests weren't too bad is a sign of hope. But she needs to get food in her. I hope you have luck syringing it in. Is she drinking water?
Please keep us updated.
Edited to add: sucralfate/Orafate did not help Farley with nausea for stomach acid, despite helping his bleeding GI tract. Can you call your vet and ask them about famotidine? It's not expensive and it's available in regular pharmacies over the counter.
Thank you so much for this video. I can’t thank you enough for your help.
Ahh! Ok. I think that med is very similar to famotidine, then. I hope Missy reacts well to it and feels a bit better. Please keep us updated!Thank you so much for this video. I can’t thank you enough for your help.
The tablets she gave me for the gut are called omeprazole.
They don’t look big in this picture but they are huge. It’s a casing with the little needs inside. Missy can’t swallow these there justbso big. So I’m going to try the slurry for her.
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Thank you so much for your replies hun.That's wonderful that she ate some yesterday! Yay!
Farley is similar. He will have good days and bad days with his appetite. If he starts to get dehydrated, then he'll lose his appetite. And an hour or two before he has a bout of diarrhea, he will refuse food, too.
Were you able to get the Omeprazole in her? How often does she get that?
If she continues to still have black in her stools, I'd call and ask the vet about getting sucralfate for her. That works very well along with an acid reducer, but like I said before, they must be given separately. Sucralfate reacts with stomach acid to form a gel that sticks to the ulcer and coats it so it can heal. I noticed that within 2-3 doses of that that Farley's diarrhea completely stopped having any black in it, and he perked up more. I think the generic name of sucralfate is Carafate. They may know it by that name.
I still have my fingers and toes crossed for you!
Thank you hunny I’ll read that.T thekittycatz I'm so sorry to hear that. :'(
I honestly don't know. It depends on what the cats have, if it's spreading to other places in their body. How much do you trust these vets, and how well do they know Missy? Is it worth getting another opinion? Is she eating, and if so, is she keeping the food down? How much weight has she lost now?
Many people on this site say that it's better to euthanize a day too soon than too late. I've only had to ever euthanize one cat and I was sad for months (am still sad 10 months later.) Her vet was certain that it was time because our girl's kidneys had failed and toxins were building up in her blood making her feel awful. Her tests were literally off the charts. But despite knowing there was no hope for her, it was still so hard to do. She was still walking around a bit, she urinated in her box. But she refused all food and water and was otherwise very weak. It was so heartbreaking.
You could let Missy be your guide. If there is some way you think she'd let you know it's time?
I found this post below so helpful when our sweet Gwennie passed away. Have a tissue handy, it will make you cry, but there is so much truth in it.
When the moment comes...