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I have mentioned a few times on here my cat is unable to be seen at the vet.
I am asking if there is any drug that anyone knows about that could work. I would ask the vet for the drug. Personally I feel gabapentin is a very weak drug for sedation. I know people who take gabapentin and some are groggy and some are not. I feel like my cat is just one of those people who does not have a real sedation reaction to the drug.
I have seen 5 to 9 vets in my cat's life. Some were emergency vets. None were able to handle him. I just feel like I have done all that I can do. I have vet insurance for just this reason... so it isn't an issue of money.
The only way my cat could be examined was a knock down fight, followed by a lot of anesthesia. Then they send him home with me and he is a danger to himself... and me. He is so angry and loopy and typically might be bleeding and hurt. I promised myself I will not do that again. I feel like the vets just do not care about him (or me) after the knock down fight. They just want him gone and do not want to have to deal with him anymore. More and more they send him home -- imho -- prematurely. This is dangerous imho for me because if I need to take him back to the vet, I may not be able to - because he is so upset and in pain.
If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I just don't see any alternatives... and feel like I have done the best I can.
- If I have brought him to the vet... he has been very dangerous to me, to the vet, and himself. Pulling out two nails already. And this is the damage that we know about. It is a drag down fight and I fear that this is the learned response. My cat is very much a creature of habit. So from the moment he realizes he is with the vet he is triggered into acting this way as sort of a habit. He kind of doesn't recognize me anymore. It is all lashing out.
- I have had vets out to the house but they have NEVER been able to get any significant examination out of him. He doesn't like me to touch him, never mind strangers. They have put him into a towel and just were not able to keep him still.. (two of them) after a while they gave up out of fear they were hurting him.
- They gave me sedation -- gabapentin, to sedate him... I gave him the max dose. While we were sitting around the house he was sleepy.. I thought it would work, but the moment they walked in, it was like his adrenaline picked up and he woke up.. they were not able to do anything with him. It was like he had no gabapentin at all.
- My cat is 15 now and eventually the vet told me that it was ok if I wanted to put him down because he would not really be able to receive medical care and with age... he was likely to have problems. They told me they worry about the sudden insane exertion for a normally sedentary cat.
- He is having problems.
I am asking if there is any drug that anyone knows about that could work. I would ask the vet for the drug. Personally I feel gabapentin is a very weak drug for sedation. I know people who take gabapentin and some are groggy and some are not. I feel like my cat is just one of those people who does not have a real sedation reaction to the drug.
I have seen 5 to 9 vets in my cat's life. Some were emergency vets. None were able to handle him. I just feel like I have done all that I can do. I have vet insurance for just this reason... so it isn't an issue of money.
The only way my cat could be examined was a knock down fight, followed by a lot of anesthesia. Then they send him home with me and he is a danger to himself... and me. He is so angry and loopy and typically might be bleeding and hurt. I promised myself I will not do that again. I feel like the vets just do not care about him (or me) after the knock down fight. They just want him gone and do not want to have to deal with him anymore. More and more they send him home -- imho -- prematurely. This is dangerous imho for me because if I need to take him back to the vet, I may not be able to - because he is so upset and in pain.
If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I just don't see any alternatives... and feel like I have done the best I can.