Recent Content by scarlett 001

My Duncan had this surgery about 14 years ago and is still going strong at the age of 16 years. He blocked and reblocked too many times so this became our next option. As he aged, he stopped getting crystals and his urine is normal now. He did get the occasional urinary infection until he was...

Best wishes for a full recovery.

Good news. Once this left, my Gryffin was back to being a hyperactive kitten and has not stopped since!! So if this disappears, it will be a forgotten blip and nothing more.

My kitten had this limping kitten syndrome a few days after vaccinations and while it was scary, within a few days he was all better again.

I've been using oral buprenorphine. But on the cat cancer yahoo group that I am on, some people keep mentioning transdermal buprenorphine that I think is put in the ear (??). Is this a possibility where you live??

This is a very difficult time for me. Murchie my beloved cat who I discussed on here a few months ago is nearly 16 years old and has pancreatitis. He is a high risk for general anesthesia (had serious issues in the past so for most of our lives we have been lucky enough to not have to put him...

Piece of advice, if you are going to take legal action or make a formal complaint, I would not be talking about this on a public forum any further. You might even ask to have this thread removed if you move to that next stage. While you need to make a formal complaint if necessary, I would do it...

Good point. Presumably the vet would discuss possible reactions with her - or at least I hope so. One needs a prescription for this so a vet by default would have to be very involved.

The vet was trying to teach me about auto-immune issues, and she did use the human lupus analogy. She said with Rexy's multitude of issues, that this is a strong possibility (of course it is difficult to confirm for certain). Triggers are tricky to figure out, but I mentioned to her it does...

Thank you. The vet is very optimistic that Rexy has more time of good quality of life ahead of her. She just sees nothing alarming at all. Rexy does have a multitude of issues, but it does appear that we should be able to manage most of them for now as nothing is leaping out as immediately...

Murchie is stabilized (thank goodness). After a lot of learning and working with my great at-home vet, Murchie was put on regular buprenorphine and ondansetron (anti-nausea) about 3 weeks ago and it has done wonders for him. We also gave him an antibiotic as his chronic respiratory has flared up...

I have a hyperthyroid cat and 20mg (10mg 2x daily) is an almost unheard of dosage. What was this vet thinking - one would never begin a cat on a dosage this high - one begins with a lower dosage and retests and then readjusts dosage. I was on the yahoo group for hyperthyroid and they found my...

Finally we got in to see that new internal medicine specialist vet. And this vet is AMAZING. She lived up to all the great things that people had said about her. Obviously very talented in terms of technical expertise and personal interactions are wonderful with both the kitty and myself...