So I'll try and keep short. 9 year old tabby cat. About a year ago she would once in a blue moon vomit. She eats very fast and would sometimes throw it up right after so I tried laying down the food on cookie sheet. We moved in July and I travel for work. I started coming home to find piles of vomit and diarrhea everywhere. The stool was loose with blood and mucus. I couldn't tell if it was vomit or stool. Then the vomit would be half digested food to pure bile.
I took her to the vet and the only blood test that was abnormal was whatever they tested in pancreas. So he put her on carafate syrup and endosorb. And I/d food. Gave her a steroid shot (I think) and something to stop the vomiting and no more issues! Then Super Bowl Sunday after she gets off her meds, she threw up every two hours all day. Since then it's been random and sporadic. I can't pin it to a time or day or event.
The stool sometimes is black and tarry. Sometimes it's loose and mucus/blood. The vomit is mostly half digested food.
I can't afford 400 every time she throws up. I feel like it's diet related but that I/d isn't cutting it. I can't give her wet food because she has runny bowels. So when she's having an episode she gets lethargic and dehydrated.
I'm beside myself. Like I said, I have had her for 9 years. The pound gave her to me at 4 weeks saying she was 6 but putting on paper she was 8. I've nursed this cat, brought her back from almost dying on me as a kitten. I want to help her and hoping someone has an idea where to point my vet because X-rays, more tests etc... we don't have time or money for guessing games.
I took her to the vet and the only blood test that was abnormal was whatever they tested in pancreas. So he put her on carafate syrup and endosorb. And I/d food. Gave her a steroid shot (I think) and something to stop the vomiting and no more issues! Then Super Bowl Sunday after she gets off her meds, she threw up every two hours all day. Since then it's been random and sporadic. I can't pin it to a time or day or event.
The stool sometimes is black and tarry. Sometimes it's loose and mucus/blood. The vomit is mostly half digested food.
I can't afford 400 every time she throws up. I feel like it's diet related but that I/d isn't cutting it. I can't give her wet food because she has runny bowels. So when she's having an episode she gets lethargic and dehydrated.
I'm beside myself. Like I said, I have had her for 9 years. The pound gave her to me at 4 weeks saying she was 6 but putting on paper she was 8. I've nursed this cat, brought her back from almost dying on me as a kitten. I want to help her and hoping someone has an idea where to point my vet because X-rays, more tests etc... we don't have time or money for guessing games.
