Hello everyone! So, it's been a while since i was last here...since March, according to the thingy on top there. I've been a busy girl, and while I've been away, Raphael thought it would be a fun idea to stop eating, need to be rushed the the emergency vet (from hell) and contract a borderline case of Hepatic Lipidosis and also Pancreatits (the pancreatitis caused the FHL, because it hurt and made him lethargic, so he went an estimated 18-20 hours without eating anything).
So, he's eating again, and until the pilling episode, he was acting chipper and normal again. He's transitioning to a special diet, and that's going ok. But the doctor put him on Denamarin, which apparently only comes in pills. The doctor, apparently ignoring my concerns about getting medicine into my extremely fractious little dude, also gave me metronoidazole in pill form.
Well, when Raphael meets pill, all sorts of disaster break loose.
First, he jerked himself around while I had the pill gun in his mouth, and stabbed himself with it. Then he scratched his own face somehow during the scuffle, not to mention giving my husband a nice set of shallow scratches and me a couple puncture wounds. He screams. He foams at the mouth. He will not be scruffed and burritoing him worked long enough to get ONE pill in him, but wasn't about to fall for it again. The second pill ended up all over me and the floor and his face. And then he proceeded to drool relentlessly.
So, this other vet is apparently a complete moron (my regular one is in Israel at the moment), I guess my question is multi-faceted:
1. Has anyone else dealt with either pancreatitis or hepatic lipidosis? I know they're both reversible, and these are both slight, early cases. I also know that the treatments are pretty wide-ranging and there's really no magic bullet.
2. How do you get a pill in a cat that will just have none of it? He was semi-feral, has calmed down in his old age, but is apparently ready to release his inner feral when he sees the pill gun.
3. Has anyone ever heard of injectable suspensions of either of these drugs? Raphael, being the weirdo he is, will take injections, but he won't take pills and liquid is only very slightly easier to get into him.
Thanks guys!
So, he's eating again, and until the pilling episode, he was acting chipper and normal again. He's transitioning to a special diet, and that's going ok. But the doctor put him on Denamarin, which apparently only comes in pills. The doctor, apparently ignoring my concerns about getting medicine into my extremely fractious little dude, also gave me metronoidazole in pill form.
Well, when Raphael meets pill, all sorts of disaster break loose.
First, he jerked himself around while I had the pill gun in his mouth, and stabbed himself with it. Then he scratched his own face somehow during the scuffle, not to mention giving my husband a nice set of shallow scratches and me a couple puncture wounds. He screams. He foams at the mouth. He will not be scruffed and burritoing him worked long enough to get ONE pill in him, but wasn't about to fall for it again. The second pill ended up all over me and the floor and his face. And then he proceeded to drool relentlessly.
So, this other vet is apparently a complete moron (my regular one is in Israel at the moment), I guess my question is multi-faceted:
1. Has anyone else dealt with either pancreatitis or hepatic lipidosis? I know they're both reversible, and these are both slight, early cases. I also know that the treatments are pretty wide-ranging and there's really no magic bullet.
2. How do you get a pill in a cat that will just have none of it? He was semi-feral, has calmed down in his old age, but is apparently ready to release his inner feral when he sees the pill gun.
3. Has anyone ever heard of injectable suspensions of either of these drugs? Raphael, being the weirdo he is, will take injections, but he won't take pills and liquid is only very slightly easier to get into him.
Thanks guys!