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I believe it was a specialist and that’s why he had to wait a week for the ultrasound. It hasn’t been biopsied or anything. His urinalyses were normal and he does eat canned food now, he refused it for most of his life. Oreo is my brothers cat so I’m getting this info secondhand and I’m not...

They believe it’s cancer. They just did the ultrasound today and they said based on how it looks they don’t think it’s benign and they can’t remove it. He is really old so it was something I suspected but we’ve lost multiple cats to cancer over the years and it really sucks. My brother said he’s...

Thank you both. I’ll ask my brother what the x-rays covered. The suspected blood clot he said was in the bladder, I’m not sure of more specific than that. His kidney levels were good on the blood work but I’m guessing that doesn’t completely rule out kidney issues?

This was the pee from the 29th. You can see how red it is even in the litter. When he had bladder stones you couldn’t even see the blood in the litter, it was only if he dripped outside the box.

He first peed blood around March 29th so he went in to have x-rays and a urinalysis. They didn’t find anything wrong so they said it’s most likely inflammation from stress. It didn’t happen again until today and he just had the x-rays and urinalysis again today as well as bloodwork. I’ll...

So my brother‘s/our family‘s cat Oreo is about 18-19 years old and my brother said he’s peeing blood. But like a lot of red blood, not just pink tinged urine. He is diabetic and has been on insulin for about 4 years. He also had a surgery to remove bladder stones about 7 years ago. He is no...

Thank you. I think we will start by asking for other medications, I don’t have much money to spare right now (I’m not responsible for paying for her medical care but I have anyway because I wasn’t going to let her get euthanized for something treatable). Even with a payment plan that would be a...

So I have an upsetting update and need advice. Little Cat was doing great on the gabapentin for a few months now. Then recently she started having episodes again. We called the vet and they recommended increasing the dose so we did. But she is now biting her tail and foot open to the point of...

Obviously I don’t know your reasons for not wanting to medicate, but it has helped Little Cat a lot. She was having near constant attacks towards her appointment all day. Now she once in a while has one mild one. She also would be very hard to give pills to everyday so luckily they have a...

Just an update in case anyone finds this thread in the future with similar issues: We had her mats shaved at the vet and I’m sure she felt better from that, but it ended up not stopping the hyperesthesia. She gets gabapentin now and that pretty much entirely stops the attacks.

We will definitely have her shaved at the vet, I really hope it’s that simple, or at least that she can get some other treatment.

Little Cat was fine up until a couple weeks ago, where she started showing symptoms of hyperesthesia. At first she would just once in a while lash her tail and stare at it. We have another cat who has this disorder but she’s never needed any treatment, as long as we only pet her head she doesn’t...