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This completely makes sense. Thanks to all of you who provided thoughtful advice and shared your own experiences. I'll post again after we get results from PCR fecal test. And yes, the other thing I have thought of doing is trying a different food, which also totally makes sense.

I don't mean to sound hard-hearted, but a big consideration for us is cost. At 18 years old, she has exceeded our expectations of what we thought her life span would be. We, of course, don't want her to suffer. But we have three other pets, two of which are signficantly younger. We don't have...

I appreciate the information, but the issue is I don't know that she has IBD. As mentioned, she has been on the same food for a long time and this just came up three months ago. As I know from my human issues with colitis, prednisone makes an infection worse. I think before I would pursue an IBD...

That fecal PCR panel sounds like the right way to go. A friend who is a vet tech suggested she might have clostridium or something else. The weird thing is when I dropped off her stool the first time, I asked to test for that, and then they didn't. Yes, might be time for a new vet. This isn't...

Hi, We have an 18-year old cat, Dora, who has mostly been in good health. In fact, just last month, she had a senior blood test panel and everything was completely normal. However, she's had chronic diarrhea/loose stool for almost three months now. I have taken her to the vet at least two...

I know this is a few months old, but our cat had PU surgery over two years ago. We had it done at Colorado State University vet hospital, one of the top vet hospitals in the country. We also had a board-certified surgeon do it who had tons of experience. I include this because it did cost us a...

I know this post is almost a month old, but I wanted to share our experience. Our boy, Simba, had PU surgery more than two years ago. One of the things the vet recommended was changing to pellet litter (Fresh News, Feline Pine). We did that, and he hasn't had a single issue -- no infection, uses...

Our cat Simba, got blocked three times in four weeks. We took him for PU Surgery at the Colorado State Veterinary Teaching Hospital which is one of the best vet hospitals in the country. They told us the surgeon who did his surgery was one of the best in the country. He has been great ever...

Our cat had this issue, and we have been feeding her food made from rabbit for years with no issues. Plus her coat is beautiful. We feed Nature's Variety Instinct rabbit, she eats both dry and wet. The vet said rabbit can be very good for cats with allergy issues.

I felt awful after getting both Shingrix vaccines, just by themselves, so actually that might be the cause.

Simba is 10 days post surgery and doing great. Eating and peeing like a champ. Fortunately, I work from home and moved my desk into our bedroom, so he's got company most of the day. We've had no litter box issues at all. In fact, other than him wearing the cone, he seems like his old self. We're...

That's so sweet of you to offer to help. I was talking to my dad today and he is willing to help us out. so hopefully we will be ok. Our latest ongoing saga is with his e-collar. We had him in his separate room and were checking on him and when I woke up, he had somehow found a way to pop it...

Well, this is a bit distressing. They said he did great in surgery and is eating and urinating with good energy. However, his creatinine went from 2.7 when we brought him in, partially blocked, and now post surgery it's at 4.0. I'm just wondering if stress can cause increased creatinine levels...

He was doing really well and was eating his food acting like his old self. What happened is our dog got into something nasty outside and had terrible diarrhea all night long, pooping in the house. I’m convinced the stress of this event is what blocked him this morning. I just don’t know what we...

Unfortunately, Simba blocked again this morning. We were lucky in that CSU vet hospital took him right away and did the PU surgery this afternoon. It was a team of two surgeons who said they had done the procedure over 100 times, so hoping their experience will yield good results. Hoping...

We know about the PU surgery, but we are hoping to avoid that. We want to give him a chance on the special diet. BTW, here in Colorado, PU surgery costs around $4,000 by a board certified surgeon. So it would be a huge added expense that we are hoping to avoid, since we already spent that much...

Just wanted to provide an update. Simba is doing well, he didn't have a UTI, but they did give us more prazosin and gabapentin. The biggest news is we finally found a food he is eating! I had to go back to the vet and they gave me samples of like six different foods. The one he really took to...

Vet says he’s not blocked again but his temp is elevated so may have a UTI, they are doing culture of urine. But even he has infection, they can give me antibiotics and he can go home. Better news than I was expecting. Also, we may have found a food he likes because he did eat some this morning...

Well, we’re back at the vet predictably. Finally yesterday they gave me samples and we may have found a good, but too late. This morning, he was straining and only a drop urine came out and he seemed uncomfortable. We’re probably going to have to do the surgery now. I feel so disappointed...

I called the vet yesterday, she suggested trying other samples of prescription foods and using an appetite stimulant. I'm wondering if it is at all possible the Gabapentin is affecting him wanting to eat? He has one more day of it today. Our other cat went through a period where she wouldn't eat...