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Hi there, just wanted to jump in because I also have a cat with FHS that mutilates herself as part of the condition. Tail chasers and self mutilators 99% of the time need an SSRI on board with an anticonvulsant like gabapentin to stop the behavior. For my cat personally, gabapentin alone wasn’t...

Hello everyone. Updating again… Celeste has been officially cone free for a week and she is doing very well. She is continuing her Prozac 5mg once a day and 100mg of gabapentin twice a day. She was in a cone for two months while we figured out her correct medication so that her tail could heal...

Unfortunately CBD did not work for Celeste, I gave that a try too. Not until she got on Prozac and Gabapentin did I start to see improvement. The ThunderShirt helps too during bad days and while I was waiting for the meds to kick in (SSRIs can take up to 4 months in cats to see the full results...

Hi everyone, I wanted to give an update here just in case it helps anyone else trying to get answers to this frustrating disorder. Unfortunately though the ThunderShirt does help Celeste a lot, it is not the cure and she has continued to be very difficult to help throughout April and May. I...

Happy update for this evening. I decided to try out the ThunderShirt just to give it a whirl, not expecting much, and lo and behold she has shown an amazing response to it. As soon as she got over her initial annoyance at us putting it on, she started purring, kneading, and she hasn’t tried to...

Thank you for the suggestion, @Elvisrocks — I will definitely check it out, I really appreciate it! I do feel like I need to join some support group of people because you are correct, it doesn’t seem vets have a ton of answers about this disorder and it’s very hard to watch your kitty have to go...

Ugh, so it’s been 72 hours and it was time to remove the bandages this evening… that did not go over well. It was taped on so well that it was pulling at her fur coming off and she was NOT happy. We got most of it off, but in the struggle her collar came off and she grabbed the last bit of gauze...

Hi @fionasmom - that’s great to hear about your GSD and I am hopeful, especially because she’s just been sleepy on gaba but otherwise been sweet and just as cuddly as always. maybe even more so because she wants to feel safe. She has the soft Elizabethan collar, not the plastic cone version...

That’s great to hear and I’m very happy for Lulu! I hope that CiCi will continue to do well on gabapentin once her tail heals. This disorder is so frustrating, because it could literally be anything. Obsessive compulsion behavior, neurological imbalance, skin allergy, or a combination of all...

A quick update from today: Celeste is doing well in her e collar, being a good sport, and eating well at mealtimes. She is being sweet as usual and trilling at me, trying to walk around a bit (though groggily), even playing a little bit— although it’s hard with her limited vision of course. I...

I’m so sorry you and your kitty are going through this. I want to echo everyone else’s advice though and say that to me, it doesn’t sound like “the time” to let her go. She’s still eating, doing things with you, and she had responded to a course of steroids initially. I’m not diagnosing her, of...

Hi @Lulu&Finn - Celeste has food allergies as well, and she has had a bout of feline eosinophilic granuloma complex with lip ulcers and dermatitis and baldness on one of her ears when she as a kitten. We had her on prednisolone, and through process of elimination and analysis of ingredients...

Thank you. The good news is that she has since eaten as of my last post. I think it was when the gabapentin kicked in the most; she was very dopey but looked happy, despite having a cone on. She still is having trouble navigating but I’m not sure if it’s the cone, the medication, or both. She...

She is so conked on the gaba. Poor sweet thing. She is kneading on me though.

Well, a bit of an update if anyone here reads this and runs into a similar issue: Celeste was up all night trying to get at her tail, I think it’s a vicious cycle because it was open and bleeding and she was in pain. I stayed up for a lot of the night trying to get her to stop. I can usually...