Boots has been having health issues for the past 2-6 months. 2 months from when I noticed symptoms. (He hid them well.) He's been to the vet 3x in the last month and I've racked up some vet bills which I'm not overly worried about. But 2 days ago he had a seizure for the first time since I adopted him a year and 3 months ago. He suddenly had a huge onset of hacking, burping, drooling foam mid December. I took him in and they thought he had swallowed something he was choking on. It wasn't that. It was granulomas in his throat from eosinophilia. He also has eosinophilia in his mouth too. They removed the granuloma whatevers in surgery and gave an antibiotic shot and cortisol shot. He got better after recovering from surgery and then worse again. So he took prednisone 14 mg per day then every other day. 2 weeks into every other day, (2 days ago) he was eating and suddenly foamed clear fluidish stuff over his food and had a seizure. The vet believed it was due to him not eating enough as well as the granulates. So he's back on his higher dose of prednisone. I'm just wondering if anybody knows how this will effect him long term. I'm reading horror stories on prednisone and it's very worrying. I know I shouldn't be worrying overly much but the vet thinks he may need prednisone the rest of his life and I've read how cats (and people) who take prednisone regularly can't fight infections and die. Also, how cartilage breaks down. He's doing much better this early morning and ate a good amount of food. I ordered science diet oral care food as the vet suggested. He's currently on blue buffalo. Anyone have experience with cats being given corticosteroids short or long term? I'm worried.
I should mention the medication is prednisolone not prednisone.
I should mention the medication is prednisolone not prednisone.