Hey everyone. It's been a long time! I wish I was posting again for better reasons...
So Miss Pia has just been diagnosed with a Grade 3 heart murmur. She's 4 and a half, and I've never been told she had a murmur before. And I'm kinda freaking out.
She was scared at the vet, but then, she always is. I didn't feel like she was necessarily more freaked out than normal. Her immigration exam was certainly far more intense, and there were a lot more other animals in the building at that one. So, if anything, this visit was relatively easy for her.
The vet told me she should get more testing, and I've been given the options of a blood test or a heart scan. I'm leaning towards the heart scan right now.
I don't know what kind of stuff I'm looking at, with such a young cat with no prior history. Pearl had a mild acquired murmur when she got to be 13 or 14, but that's really just a thing that happens with a lot of old cats. They pretty much just told me make sure it gets checked during her senior exams and don't worry too much unless it gets bad.
I didn't expect my healthy young moggie with no history to suddenly have such a pronounced murmur.
Anyone with any experience, or any advice on the possibilities given the sudden severity of the murmur, thanks so much.
So Miss Pia has just been diagnosed with a Grade 3 heart murmur. She's 4 and a half, and I've never been told she had a murmur before. And I'm kinda freaking out.
She was scared at the vet, but then, she always is. I didn't feel like she was necessarily more freaked out than normal. Her immigration exam was certainly far more intense, and there were a lot more other animals in the building at that one. So, if anything, this visit was relatively easy for her.
The vet told me she should get more testing, and I've been given the options of a blood test or a heart scan. I'm leaning towards the heart scan right now.
I don't know what kind of stuff I'm looking at, with such a young cat with no prior history. Pearl had a mild acquired murmur when she got to be 13 or 14, but that's really just a thing that happens with a lot of old cats. They pretty much just told me make sure it gets checked during her senior exams and don't worry too much unless it gets bad.
I didn't expect my healthy young moggie with no history to suddenly have such a pronounced murmur.
Anyone with any experience, or any advice on the possibilities given the sudden severity of the murmur, thanks so much.
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