Search Results for Query: CHF

Dear Feline Community, I am writing to seek your collective wisdom and experience in managing a complex health case with my furball. My 9-year-old Persian cat, Bishop, has recently been diagnosed with both hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA). He was...

Yesterday we got the results back on a Feline Senior Wellness Profile with Cardiopet proBNP test for my Jengo. He has CKD and IBD and was diagnosed with Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy now. I am devastated. I had been complaining to two different vets for months about his weakness and wobbliness...

TEEF is a probiotic added to water to promote good bacteria in the mouth and reduce the bad bacteria. They've had a dog product for a while and added a cat product this year. I think the science makes sense, but does it actually reduce dental disease? Has anyone tried the cat or dog product?

Does anyone know if this is sound advice? Vet said to get my cat off of grain free foods bc cats need taurine- and that they need grains or else it can be the start of cardiomyopathy. I told her the first five ingredients has taurine as a top ingredient. And she kept saying to get off of grain...

Hello to all you kitty experts out there!! We adopted two bonded brothers recently, they're from a rescue and they were abandoned behind a dollar store so we don't have much info on them but we've been debating for weeks what they could possibly be (we have a pretty good guess but don't want to...

My 10 yo Lexi hasn't been sleeping much. I only discovered recently that cats sleep on average 12-18 hours/day. She never did sleep much during the day, but now she may be sleeping much of the night, but that's pretty much it. I believe lack of sleep has made her more skittish than usual...

Hi everyone I lost my cat Maggie last Saturday morning. She greeted my husband as normal when he got up at 9.30am, followed him into the kitchen demanding her breakfast (as usual!) and then on her way back to the sitting room to her bed, she let out a strange low long meow that I have never...

I am absolutely traumatized and heartbroken that my sweet boy died today. His breathing the past few days was different. He wasnt gasping or struggling just harder. I brought him to the vet today and he had a pleural effusion. He had fluid and blood in and around his lungs. When they went to...

Hi there! My girl was drinking water last night and made this weird sound in two different instances. I sent the clip to the vet, but in the meantime, does anyone else’s Persian do this? She did it immediately after drinking water and has a faucet-type water fountain. She only made this noise...

We have a slightly hyperthyroid cat, he gets 0.25mg methimazole twice/day. When we have a cat sitter come we have her give both doses at once every 24 hours (vet said that’s fine to do as needed, just probably less effective than spacing it out). Our cat sitter canceled on us at the very last...

I took my 15 yr old Izzy today to the emergency vet as I observed a syncopathic event followed by some yelping and panting. Emer vet said he probably had a mini stroke type of event. They put him on clopidogrel and furosemide after a chest xray revealed his heart is enlarged. We'll be having...

Purpose of the thread - Name three things you have done or will do today Straighten the kitchen Go for a short walk Close the 2022 threads on here and start 2023 thread. ;)

Has anyone had to deal with this in your kitty? What caused it? I’ll be posting in the rainbow bridge forum 😩 I just have so many unanswered questions rest easy my sweet boy

6 year old male cat: I took my cat in for annual exam and vaccines. The vet detected a heart murmur when he listened to his heart. Took X-ray and said cat has enlarged heart and fluid build up. His vertebral heart score is 8.5, I read where 6.7 to 8.1 is normal for a cat. Vet said to try him on...

Hi, I found this forum while I was searching about saddle thrombus and I thought I’d write my own since it helped me to read others of what they experienced and I’m still coping with my 10year old cat Chi who went through this on Saturday and crossed the bridge. Please be warned that it...is bit...

...heart failure). This has been extraordinarily tough on me, and it's hard to get through the day knowing that he could throw a clot or go into CHF at any moment. I'm already active on the Special Hearts page on facebook, but was just hoping people could share their experiences/any advice if...

One of my cats was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. Her T4 was 14.6. She was dosed with 5 mg Tapazole once a day. When I took her in 1 month later, they told my her T4 was 18 (?.) Vet upped her Tap to twice a day. The recheck after 1 month showed a T4 of 1.4. There was no follow up scheduled and...

...our kitchen or living room. It's a horrible feeling to not know whe she will pass or what signs to look for. For any of you who are familiar with CHF in cats any advice? When will I know it's time? When should the meds begin to work and notice improvement? What worsening signs should I look...

My dear cat Flower was diagnosed with CHF last month. She had labored breathing and that’s when we discovered it. She was put on several medicines and relapsed, so we took her in, got her lasix shot and took her home. She did okay for another two weeks with dedicated medicating, but slowly...

...know 😔) so I feel like I partook in that. It was later on that I only fed her wet food. She had hyperthyroidism and ckd and in the end she had chf and cancer. Anyway I want to avoid as best as I can these things with my current babies. All three eat only wet food and I add water to every...