Hi all,
So a couple of months ago Daisy was put onto Cisapride and Osmolax (which is known as Miralax in the US) for recurring constipation that her vet thinks is probably early stage megacolon. She’s doing well on it - hasn’t been backed up at all, not dry or hard, either. She has her Cisapride about 7 o’clock morning and evening and her Osmolax two hours after that.
What it doesn’t do is get her on a steady, predictable schedule. She’s never gone over 48 hours since starting, but she’s come close to it. She’ll go from a few days of doing it around the 24 hour mark, or a couple of hours over, to a 40 hour gap, then 20-something again, then 30-something, with maybe a 19 hour gap thrown in. It’s nerve-wracking, to say the least; will this be the time I have to get her up to the vet for an enema? (She played “vet chicken” once and did a poop three minutes before the vet opened and I was going to call them.)
So after all this preamble, my question for fellow Cisapride-laxative-megacolon cat parents is, are your cats as irregular as this? And while I think of it, what do your vets consider time to arrange an enema - 48 hours or more?
So a couple of months ago Daisy was put onto Cisapride and Osmolax (which is known as Miralax in the US) for recurring constipation that her vet thinks is probably early stage megacolon. She’s doing well on it - hasn’t been backed up at all, not dry or hard, either. She has her Cisapride about 7 o’clock morning and evening and her Osmolax two hours after that.
What it doesn’t do is get her on a steady, predictable schedule. She’s never gone over 48 hours since starting, but she’s come close to it. She’ll go from a few days of doing it around the 24 hour mark, or a couple of hours over, to a 40 hour gap, then 20-something again, then 30-something, with maybe a 19 hour gap thrown in. It’s nerve-wracking, to say the least; will this be the time I have to get her up to the vet for an enema? (She played “vet chicken” once and did a poop three minutes before the vet opened and I was going to call them.)
So after all this preamble, my question for fellow Cisapride-laxative-megacolon cat parents is, are your cats as irregular as this? And while I think of it, what do your vets consider time to arrange an enema - 48 hours or more?
