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So I posted this thread a couple weeks back about a stressful ordeal at a local vet's office. Short version is, we went in because she had scratched fur off her ear on Christmas day. We went to this feline only vet the day after, thinking regular vet was closed because no call back until we were driving to this guy. Anyway, I wish we never went. He ended up giving her a steroid and antibiotic shot and she did not react well once home... panting, aggressive, wild eyed. She pulled out hair and licked the area where she was injected bright red. Wound up being able to see her usual vet, small dose benadryl and later had follow up scheduled just to check in later all this.
Around 10 days after this experience, once she started acting more herselfI had noticed 1yr 9month yr old Echo was going to use litter box to pee 4-5 times a day when she usually goes 3, maybe 4 times. So at the follow up visit, I mention this along with how the past week had been going and that she seemed a bit lower energy still (I think it took like 12-15 days after the shots to really be normal self...). This visit is not good. Echo went from being fairly fine at vets office to being "hell no" and after that day with the shots, I don't blame her...but getting first blood draw to run some tests (I wanted to make sure her blood work was good because she had never had any) was a two person, neck scrunching, growling ordeal. I dread having to bring her back again in the future. She holds grudges indefinitely with people who have offended her. Anyway, regular vet and I agreed that I'd do home collection of a urine sample, which I delivered end of day. That was on Tuesday of last week. Called saturday before they closed and still no results yet on the culture to see if there was a definite bacterial infection and what kind antibiotics etc...They did see "some possible bacteria" in the in house urinalysis.
So in the meantime I read up on D Mannose and have given her some in food daily since I have these for myself, but I'm scared if it could harm her in any way. I saw dosages from this brand on Amazon and haven't been dosing that much, but have been giving less than 1 capsule spread out per day. Also 1tbs of pate mixed with a lot of water (tomato soup consistency) every few hours between breakfast and lunch to keep water filtering through her best I can. I have a chart where I keep track of daily pee/poo/energy scores etc each day.
I had been keeping her in a little doggo shirt to cover the bald spot so she doesnt keep licking her back raw. The regular vet said to put steroid cream on it, but I don't think it's so much itchy as it is she's grooming an area without full fur with a barbed tongue. And I don't want her licking the steroid cream. Today, took the shirt off to let her groom supervised...she's been pretty good about this in general...but today she refused to let me get it back on and attacked my hand when i tried to get her paw through the arm hole. I honestly cried. She did lick it "resurfaced" because there was little scabbing left, but not raw yet. But now I'm scared to leave her by herself. Or even sleep. I feel so in over my head with all this and simultaneously have a huge career event that I've invested thousands in to in just 16 days and my focus has barely been able to be on it -I've been so worried about her.... I'm venting here, but if anyone has advise I'd appreciate it. I'm calling vet first thing when they open to see if culture results are in and if a safe/appropriate antibiotic can help her.
So I posted this thread a couple weeks back about a stressful ordeal at a local vet's office. Short version is, we went in because she had scratched fur off her ear on Christmas day. We went to this feline only vet the day after, thinking regular vet was closed because no call back until we were driving to this guy. Anyway, I wish we never went. He ended up giving her a steroid and antibiotic shot and she did not react well once home... panting, aggressive, wild eyed. She pulled out hair and licked the area where she was injected bright red. Wound up being able to see her usual vet, small dose benadryl and later had follow up scheduled just to check in later all this.
Around 10 days after this experience, once she started acting more herselfI had noticed 1yr 9month yr old Echo was going to use litter box to pee 4-5 times a day when she usually goes 3, maybe 4 times. So at the follow up visit, I mention this along with how the past week had been going and that she seemed a bit lower energy still (I think it took like 12-15 days after the shots to really be normal self...). This visit is not good. Echo went from being fairly fine at vets office to being "hell no" and after that day with the shots, I don't blame her...but getting first blood draw to run some tests (I wanted to make sure her blood work was good because she had never had any) was a two person, neck scrunching, growling ordeal. I dread having to bring her back again in the future. She holds grudges indefinitely with people who have offended her. Anyway, regular vet and I agreed that I'd do home collection of a urine sample, which I delivered end of day. That was on Tuesday of last week. Called saturday before they closed and still no results yet on the culture to see if there was a definite bacterial infection and what kind antibiotics etc...They did see "some possible bacteria" in the in house urinalysis.
So in the meantime I read up on D Mannose and have given her some in food daily since I have these for myself, but I'm scared if it could harm her in any way. I saw dosages from this brand on Amazon and haven't been dosing that much, but have been giving less than 1 capsule spread out per day. Also 1tbs of pate mixed with a lot of water (tomato soup consistency) every few hours between breakfast and lunch to keep water filtering through her best I can. I have a chart where I keep track of daily pee/poo/energy scores etc each day.
I had been keeping her in a little doggo shirt to cover the bald spot so she doesnt keep licking her back raw. The regular vet said to put steroid cream on it, but I don't think it's so much itchy as it is she's grooming an area without full fur with a barbed tongue. And I don't want her licking the steroid cream. Today, took the shirt off to let her groom supervised...she's been pretty good about this in general...but today she refused to let me get it back on and attacked my hand when i tried to get her paw through the arm hole. I honestly cried. She did lick it "resurfaced" because there was little scabbing left, but not raw yet. But now I'm scared to leave her by herself. Or even sleep. I feel so in over my head with all this and simultaneously have a huge career event that I've invested thousands in to in just 16 days and my focus has barely been able to be on it -I've been so worried about her.... I'm venting here, but if anyone has advise I'd appreciate it. I'm calling vet first thing when they open to see if culture results are in and if a safe/appropriate antibiotic can help her.