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Hi folks! It's been several years since people on this site helped me to address a series of illnesses suffered by my previous generation of cat pals. I finally recovered from the years, dollars, tears spent caring and saying good-bye to 3 chronically ill kitties, and am enjoying the company of...

I adopted two young cats three months ago, siblings but not from the same litter, so one is probably a year and the other closer to 18 mos., though the shelter said they were much closer in age. Anyway the brother is a little older and a fair amount bigger than the sister, though she is catching...

Maybe this belongs in a different forum, feel free to put it where it is most likely to be addressed by someone in the know. July 22 I adopted a one year old brother and sister pair of cats (now called Amos and Flō) and was sent home with a limited quantity of the food the humane society feeds...

There seems to be some disagreement about distemper shots, even on this site. I'm interested in what people think, as I will take my newly adopted shelter kitties to "meet the vet" and presumably have their 3 week Felo Vax booster. They are approx. 10 months and 1 yr of age. Their history is...

I think I'm learning what it feels like to "hit bottom", working to start over and climb back up, very difficult. My significant other and I shared a home and cat friends for more than 20 years of our 30 year relationship. We grew apart and should have split before we did, the one thing we...

Anyone give their arthritic cat Onsior long term with good results? Also, any experience with Chondroptorotec injections? thank you Laura

I've posted here several times in the past year, initially about my cat with hyperthyroidism and intestinal disease - she still lives with both - and eventually about my big boy Willis. His "journey" through rhinitis/sinusitis started with a stuffy nose and noisy breathing/snoring over two...

Anyone heard of or tried laser therapy to treat their cat's rhinitis? My vet is recommending this for my cat Willis who is currently on 50 mg daily of Atopica, which is a lot of medicine and a lot of $. The laser therapy is supposed to increase blood flow/circulation to the area which supposedly...

I started my cat Vivian on Budesonide suspension two weeks ago to address large intestine/colon inflammation, because prednisolone had induced diabetes. The good news is now that she's off the pred her blood glucose has normalized and she is off the insulin. The bad news is the budesondie...

My cat Vivian, who takes prednisolone for intestinal inflammation, is switching to budesonide because the pred put her into a diabetic situation. The prescription given to the compounding pharmacy by Vivian's vet is for the suspension: 1 ml (equiv of 1 mg) per day. I was going to have them...

Telling Vivian's story is mentally exhausting. As briefly as possible, Vivian presented with loose stool with fresh blood and mucus and weight loss a year ago, originally thought to be caused by a benign thyroid tumor and hyperthyroidism. After surgery and a return to normal thyroid function...

I am in the process of changing the diet of my cat Vivian, on prednisolone for 4 months to treat large intestine inflammation, and became pred induced diabetic. She's on a tiny dose of insulin and I am transitioning her to a low carb diet in the hope of getting her into remission from the...

What a tangled web! My 10.5 year old cat Vivian has been taking 5 mg prednisolone to treat large intestine inflammation and related symptoms for about 4 months. It firmed up her stool for the most part, there was still an occasional loose one, and still a trace of blood at the end of the bowel...

For those who have read about Vivian the cat, nothing really new here, just trying to get the attention of leukeran/chlorambucil users. If you have a cat who has had success with Leukeran I'd love to hear about it. Specifically, my cat Vivian has been on 5 mg prednisolone for 3+ months to...

For those give or have given this Chlorambucil to their cat, does the decreased appetite experienced by the cat eventually come back around. In other words, will the cat's system get more "accustomed" to the drug in time? I've started my cat on this drug for IBD/lymphoma and it has been a real...

My cat Vivian, 10.5 years, has been taking 5 mg prednisolone daily for three months to  treat large intestine inflammation. A biopsy did not show lymphoma but it is not completely ruled out. The pred has helped firm up her stool much of the time but not always, and she still has a small amount...

My cat Willis age almost 11 has had a stuffed nose with sneezing for over a year. Things my vet has tried on him are convenia, baytril, lysine, culture that revealed mycoplasma felis, treated with doxycycline, xray, nasal flush, cytologic evaluation of flushed nasal tissue, I think that's it I...

This is a continuation of a thread I started months ago which has followed my cat Vivian's intestinal troubles since the end of last summer. She has high folate and low B-12 but relatively normal pancreas function, she did have a tumor on one lobe of her thyroid gland which was originally...

My 10 year old cat Willis has been taking docycycline - two pills twice a day - for a little over two weeks to treat a mycoplasma bacterial URI. He has been sneezing and sniffling off and on for months and was been treated with convenia, baytril and lysine, with little or no effect. A nasal...

Vivian was given fortiflora twice a day for one week, as her vet instructed, and sadly but not unexpectedly it has had no effect on her loose and frequent stool. She is still eating and drinking okay, sleeping a lot - any diarrhea caused by hyperthyroidism should have cleared by now. In my most...