Hello to all of you lovelies,
I have a 2.5 year old male cat that is experiencing a urinary block of some kind. We rushed him to the emergency vet and an ultrasound revealed no crystals. He did have slightly elevated phosphorus levels, but nothing too bad. He was also a little dehydrated, but again, not too bad and they did not inject fluids.
We were given some medicine and some urinary food, which of course he wants nothing to do with. Since being home, he has tried to urinate a couple times, but no luck.
I'm not sure what the issue is, as I'm more familiar with crystals causing the block. I'm also not sure what I should do as we've already been to the emergency vet and that didn't appear to do much.
I was not told what the possible issue is, just to do the medicine and if he doesn't pee on his own by tomorrow to bring him back in for a catheter and monitoring.
Obviously I'm following what the vet said, but I was hoping to try and get some more information and a better understanding of what is going on. Anyone familiar with this scenario? Anything I can do? Is the ER vet a bad vet and I should take him somewhere else?
The poor guy just seems to be in pain, and my husband is losing his mind while we keep an eye on him. I'm completely in the dark on this, so anything at all would really help.
Thank you in advance
I have a 2.5 year old male cat that is experiencing a urinary block of some kind. We rushed him to the emergency vet and an ultrasound revealed no crystals. He did have slightly elevated phosphorus levels, but nothing too bad. He was also a little dehydrated, but again, not too bad and they did not inject fluids.
We were given some medicine and some urinary food, which of course he wants nothing to do with. Since being home, he has tried to urinate a couple times, but no luck.
I'm not sure what the issue is, as I'm more familiar with crystals causing the block. I'm also not sure what I should do as we've already been to the emergency vet and that didn't appear to do much.
I was not told what the possible issue is, just to do the medicine and if he doesn't pee on his own by tomorrow to bring him back in for a catheter and monitoring.
Obviously I'm following what the vet said, but I was hoping to try and get some more information and a better understanding of what is going on. Anyone familiar with this scenario? Anything I can do? Is the ER vet a bad vet and I should take him somewhere else?
The poor guy just seems to be in pain, and my husband is losing his mind while we keep an eye on him. I'm completely in the dark on this, so anything at all would really help.
Thank you in advance