Hi there. I have another account but haven't been able to get back into it. I have a kitty and he has been through hell and back all his 3 years of life. He survived ITP and got that into remission after two years and finding the right vet to give him a vaccine detox. Before that happened the meds he was on for the disease ended up giving him pancreatitis, dka and sepsis. He survived that 3 weeks in the icu. He was getting monthly pancreatitis after that this last year basically but just a few months ago a new hollistic vet changed all his herbs and he was flare free for 3 months. He was on 5mg of prednisolone for almost all his life and every time we try to lower it he gets sick and I end up caving and putting him back on the normal dose. The vet wanted to lower it from 5mg to 3.75mg and 2 days after that he slowly started declining and now the last 2 days I've been syringing all his calories and he is depressed. Just sleeping. I've been giving him some pain meds and anti nausea and fluids. I used to work for a clinic so I can do the at home support.
I just feel like I'm prolonging a life that should have ended when he was a kitten like his other littermate I fostered. Something was very wrong with that kitty and the vets didnt know what it was. I'm just broken down and it's so hard to keep going and hoping he will turn around yet again. He seems more annoyed than anything and I've seen him sick before all stages and this seems like depression, nausea, maybe some pain. Taking him to the vet several vets just don't know why he gets like this
I just feel like I'm prolonging a life that should have ended when he was a kitten like his other littermate I fostered. Something was very wrong with that kitty and the vets didnt know what it was. I'm just broken down and it's so hard to keep going and hoping he will turn around yet again. He seems more annoyed than anything and I've seen him sick before all stages and this seems like depression, nausea, maybe some pain. Taking him to the vet several vets just don't know why he gets like this