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@Antonio65 I am so sorry to hear that your baby passed a year after the treatment. I hope it was a happy year filled with mostly good days and beautiful memories 
Biscuit's ALTs have been all over the place with no explanation until the T4 test, and the specialist said it is not uncommon to see elevated ALTs in hyperthyroid cats, and I am hoping that they will normalize. The only regret I will have about not starting with methimazole is that it would have given us a chance to see if the thyroid was masking problems with kidney function. But even if we did find that, I think it would have been hard to make the decision to knowingly only partially treat the thyroid in order to choose the lesser of two evils. Hopefully I made the right choice and it's a nonissue.
She's been home for a couple of days. I'm not supposed to have prolonged contact or let her sleep with me, but she's slept in the bed both nights. She usually sleeps with me EVERY night (she has her own pillow even lol), but hasn't slept with me in weeks. So when she jumped onto bed immediately the first night, I didn't have the heart to kick her out. She wouldn't eat at the facility and they said she was stressed and angry the whole time, I just want her to feel safe and loved so she can be as relaxed as possible.
And don't you know... she refuses to use the flushable litter. So we have two giant litter boxes full of it for nothing. We ended up having to pull out another litter box of the old stuff anyway and will have to store it for 80 days in the garage...in FL, where it's probably not going to be cold enough long enough not to stink. She is such a diva... definitely my cat lol
Biscuit's ALTs have been all over the place with no explanation until the T4 test, and the specialist said it is not uncommon to see elevated ALTs in hyperthyroid cats, and I am hoping that they will normalize. The only regret I will have about not starting with methimazole is that it would have given us a chance to see if the thyroid was masking problems with kidney function. But even if we did find that, I think it would have been hard to make the decision to knowingly only partially treat the thyroid in order to choose the lesser of two evils. Hopefully I made the right choice and it's a nonissue.
She's been home for a couple of days. I'm not supposed to have prolonged contact or let her sleep with me, but she's slept in the bed both nights. She usually sleeps with me EVERY night (she has her own pillow even lol), but hasn't slept with me in weeks. So when she jumped onto bed immediately the first night, I didn't have the heart to kick her out. She wouldn't eat at the facility and they said she was stressed and angry the whole time, I just want her to feel safe and loved so she can be as relaxed as possible.
And don't you know... she refuses to use the flushable litter. So we have two giant litter boxes full of it for nothing. We ended up having to pull out another litter box of the old stuff anyway and will have to store it for 80 days in the garage...in FL, where it's probably not going to be cold enough long enough not to stink. She is such a diva... definitely my cat lol
