Search Results for Query: Hyperesthesia

...be any other reason for him to be self-mutilating. She mentioned that they try to rule out other causes before diagnosing with Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome, but she said he very clearly has this condition now. My husband and I are concerned about quality of life for him. He has been on the...

I think my cat has problems with Feline Hyperesthesia. It mostly happens when he is frustrated with something, such as not being able to go out. Apart from "rolling wave" on his skin alongside his spine, he rolls his tongue, and then sprints and runs fast as if in a kind of flight response from...

I think my cat Pi may have hyperesthesia. A condition where he chases his tail and sometimes bites it because it twitches by itself and puzzles him. From what I’ve read it is not life threatening and there are medications for it. I can’t get to his vet until after the new year so was wondering...

While my cat (~1.5 year old male) has not yet received an official diagnosis, he seems to be showing the signs of having FSH. He has periods of frantic activity where he will see his own tail and panic, dashing around the room each time he catches sight of it. Sometimes he will bites it a little...

...is down to purring or his heart issues. I will have to ask the vet at his next visit. Anyways, I stumbled on something called "Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome" and never heard of it before but I think he actually has this. It has happened maybe 15 or 20 times over the last 2 years. Almost...

About a few weeks ago my cat started showing signs of Feline Hyperesthesia all of a sudden. His back would start twitching, he'd lick his tail and run around the house, looking around like crazy. These episodes would last for a while. He then started drooping an ear and kept scratching it, I...

Hi everyone — my cat, Princess is 5 years old and was just diagnosed with hyperesthesia. She doesn’t have a bad case of it — she doesn’t have the hyperesthesia “attacks”, but has has frequent back skin rippling and periodically pulls out fur in pattern that indicates back pain. The the vet...

I am looking to see if anyone else has experienced this with their cats. Mine is a 4 year old male, and he began this self mutilation about 8 months ago. He started scratching his face and neck, causing open areas roughly quarter size. I took him in, and he had the whole gammat of test, swabs...

All day yesterday she was demanding food..not eating it..and still sitting in front of her placemat demanding more. It started early this morning..the continual loud meowing that got to a demanding YOWL!. I fed her and she paced the house until dawn. After her breakfast around 7:30 she started...

I am about at my wits end. So is my poor Molly. I have tried hundreds if not thousands of dollars trying to find something that seems to help with her twitching, screaming when touched in the tail area, and CONSTANT licking. She gets SO upset when I take her to the vet she actually pees and...

...mutilate him self and I do not see any hair missing. With reading some older posts on this site and doing research, it seems he has hyperesthesia. I need to get him to a neurologist for a work up. I have seen that some meds / combo of meds will work for some pets. I want to do the best...

So, I have a male black cat named Noodle whom I've had for 5 years, since he was a kitten. I also have a 7 month old son. Noodle has been in perfect health until our son was born. Noodle has been twitching, itching, scratching and biting himself, running away from nothing, yowling...since our...

I have a 1.5 year old neutered male cat who started displaying symptoms of FHS just a day ago. It completely started out of the blue. I went to bed and he was fine, and I woke up 8 hours later and he was running around like he was scared, to the point he was panting. He's no longer running...

Hi everyone, I have a very anxious kitty, Celeste, who has seemed to have developed feline hyperesthesia as of April 2021. While she is not to the point of severe self mutilation, she is running around the house away from herself for at least 40-50% of the day, tail going wild. She is...

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...

Hey everyone! So I recently took my kitten to the vet for a check up, and I did raise the concern about his back, but they told me it’s just more sensitive than some other cats. He has moments where he swishes his tail and his back twitches like crazy near the base of his tail, spasming and...

Our cat Gracie is about 4 years old. Healthy and active-- always a bit on the crazy size (running loops around the house before eating, etc.). During rhe day she's one of those cats that sleeps with her paws up in weird poses, and she's quite a snuggler at night. Really, an amazing cat...

...of his other behaviors and noticed that this one thing he does usually once or twice a day almost perfectly matches the symptoms of a Hyperesthesia Syndrome episode, and I was wondering if that had anything to do with the urinating? I haven't noticed if the urinating lines up with the fur...

My cat, Dexter, is 4 years old. Been having a problem with FHS for about 2 years now. Only recently been self mutilating though. It’s gotten bad. Wake up my mornings to blood all over. Vet has him on fluoxetine and gabapentin. Seemed like it helped for a little then one day it didn’t. Now his...

Hi everyone, I'm hoping I can get some advice on how to help a cat with (suspected) FHS! Or experiences from others who have had cats with the same. My 3 year old neutered male cat suddenly started getting bouts of twitching and agitation this year. During his episodes, he twitches as if he...