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So this all started last Weds now six vet trips later.
Small wound above cats head, phoned vets Thursday last week (day before Easter Bank Holiday here). They had no appts as one vet was off but managed to squeeze us in with a nurse.
I didn't go along to the appt as I was working but my partner took our baby down and a vet saw him very briefly, gave him an antibiotic shot and sent him home, thought about an e collar but decided not to as they only had a smaller size and we were also given Metacam.
Wound gets bigger over the four day bank holiday period, we phone Tuesday morning and they book him in with another vet, the one who was off.
He gives us antibiotic tablets and Bupronorephine (sp) we can give this up to three times a day but he recommends to try and keep it to two times a day. Still no e-collar, he reckons it will be too annoying for poor baby.
Thursday it's looking worse, partner goes back again, I get him to phone me when he is there this time and say I want swabs done, ask the vet what the labs will be looking for, he's very short with me, he doesn't know. Still no e-collar.
That night baby starts really yowling in pain and we are not sure we are getting the Bupronorephine (sp) in properly, as it needs to go in via mucous membranes and not be swallowed.
We go to an out of hours vet as we are really very worried.
She thinks it's an allergy which is being worsened by baby attacking at it, gives us gabepentenin (sp) to be given every eight to twelve hours and we can carry on with the Bupronorephine but to stop the metacam, with the intention of normal vet giving a steroid injection once the metacam has cleared from his system.
He also has a smaller wound on the back of his neck so she doesn't want to give him an e-collar, gives him a buster collar that he gets off in less than a minute as soon as we get home.
We talk to our normal vets on the Friday, they say they will get back to us re which swabs were done and if a biosopy was also taken and that should we need to be in touch they are now open on Saturday mornings.
Feeling more relaxed at this point as Friday day time and night time go well, baby is really chill and he's not getting worked up, yay gabepentenin.
I have fibromyalgia and use Saturday morning to catch up on some sleep, partner wakes me about half ten to tell me he's going out, baby is zonked out and all is good.
I go into the kitchen and in ten mins baby is not asleep, is yowling again and it now looks like the skin is falling off by his eye.
Call my partner say please come home asap, he heads towards me, try phoning normal vet who have told me day before they are open now on Saturdays until eleven thirty am. They don't answer.
So back to the emergency vets we go.
He is now fitted with an e-collar which is staying on. Thank goodness. Also got more gabepentenin while we there as well.
So basically do wiser minds (looking at the images) think this is an allergy that he has managed to super duper mess up or an abscess that has been irritated by him or something other?
Also the person we saw today looked at him gums (something my partner doesn't remember our normal vet doing) and to me they looked pale, the person we saw agreed they did look a bit pale.
I tried to get them to do a blood test to check for anaemia but they said baby was too resistive for them to be able to get one done.
Basically help please?
Hoping with the e-collar fitted it will be an uphill journey from here but would like to see if anyone has experienced something similar and can give us a bit more of an idea of what the actual problem is.
9 month old neutered male moggy, was going outside but have not let him out now since last Weds.
Also he was catching bees a few weeks back, so could it be related to that maybe?
Thanking anyone who can shed some light on what is happening to him.
Small wound above cats head, phoned vets Thursday last week (day before Easter Bank Holiday here). They had no appts as one vet was off but managed to squeeze us in with a nurse.
I didn't go along to the appt as I was working but my partner took our baby down and a vet saw him very briefly, gave him an antibiotic shot and sent him home, thought about an e collar but decided not to as they only had a smaller size and we were also given Metacam.
Wound gets bigger over the four day bank holiday period, we phone Tuesday morning and they book him in with another vet, the one who was off.
He gives us antibiotic tablets and Bupronorephine (sp) we can give this up to three times a day but he recommends to try and keep it to two times a day. Still no e-collar, he reckons it will be too annoying for poor baby.
Thursday it's looking worse, partner goes back again, I get him to phone me when he is there this time and say I want swabs done, ask the vet what the labs will be looking for, he's very short with me, he doesn't know. Still no e-collar.
That night baby starts really yowling in pain and we are not sure we are getting the Bupronorephine (sp) in properly, as it needs to go in via mucous membranes and not be swallowed.
We go to an out of hours vet as we are really very worried.
She thinks it's an allergy which is being worsened by baby attacking at it, gives us gabepentenin (sp) to be given every eight to twelve hours and we can carry on with the Bupronorephine but to stop the metacam, with the intention of normal vet giving a steroid injection once the metacam has cleared from his system.
He also has a smaller wound on the back of his neck so she doesn't want to give him an e-collar, gives him a buster collar that he gets off in less than a minute as soon as we get home.
We talk to our normal vets on the Friday, they say they will get back to us re which swabs were done and if a biosopy was also taken and that should we need to be in touch they are now open on Saturday mornings.
Feeling more relaxed at this point as Friday day time and night time go well, baby is really chill and he's not getting worked up, yay gabepentenin.
I have fibromyalgia and use Saturday morning to catch up on some sleep, partner wakes me about half ten to tell me he's going out, baby is zonked out and all is good.
I go into the kitchen and in ten mins baby is not asleep, is yowling again and it now looks like the skin is falling off by his eye.
Call my partner say please come home asap, he heads towards me, try phoning normal vet who have told me day before they are open now on Saturdays until eleven thirty am. They don't answer.
So back to the emergency vets we go.
He is now fitted with an e-collar which is staying on. Thank goodness. Also got more gabepentenin while we there as well.
So basically do wiser minds (looking at the images) think this is an allergy that he has managed to super duper mess up or an abscess that has been irritated by him or something other?
Also the person we saw today looked at him gums (something my partner doesn't remember our normal vet doing) and to me they looked pale, the person we saw agreed they did look a bit pale.
I tried to get them to do a blood test to check for anaemia but they said baby was too resistive for them to be able to get one done.
Basically help please?
Hoping with the e-collar fitted it will be an uphill journey from here but would like to see if anyone has experienced something similar and can give us a bit more of an idea of what the actual problem is.
9 month old neutered male moggy, was going outside but have not let him out now since last Weds.
Also he was catching bees a few weeks back, so could it be related to that maybe?
Thanking anyone who can shed some light on what is happening to him.
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