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Hi everyone. This is my first time posting and I'm looking for a little advice about what could be ailing my kitty.
Jeri is my 2-year old tabby, spayed, indoor-only, and generally in great health. Last year she developed an infection (which I noticed because her eating had slowed) from ruptured anal glands, so we ended up putting her on prescription Royal Canin Gastroinstestinal dry food. She has been great with it. She is a little overweight so we have been measuring her food into 2 meals usually feeding her around 7:30pm and 7:30am.
A few months ago she started getting hungrier at bedtime (around 10pm), waking us up in the middle of the night to be fed, so we changed her feeding schedule to 7:30pm and 9:30pm. She’s been fine with this but has recently had a few days of mix-ups over the holidays having been fed at 9:30pm and 7:30am while staying with my sister and her cat. We brought her back home last Tues (Dec 27) and got back on her regular feeding schedule.
This Monday, Jan 2, Jeri woke us up at 7:30am by vomiting a hairball along with all of her food. She never pukes so it was alarming to us but I did note the hairball inside and assumed she was okay. A few hours later she puked again, but only foamy bile. I immediately called the vet and got an appointment for 12pm but she ended up puking bile again before we left for the appointment. So, 3 vomits in 4 hours.
Our vet is really great and thorough and suggested perhaps an obstruction, if not, pancreatitis. We went with full blood work and an xray. In the meantime we started her on sulcrafate and some pain meds for her tummy pain and she was fine overnight, eating and drinking and using the litter box normally. The next day with the results we ruled out pancreatitis from the bloodwork and xray and any obstruction, but her white blood cell count was low so we started her on antibiotics. I’ve been giving them to her after her first feeding at night.
Jeri continued to be fine Tuesday night, Wednesday, and Thursday during the day but around 6:00pm last night she vomited bile. Again, she has been perfectly fine otherwise – drinking, eating, and pooping/peeing the same. I called the vet and she said that it was likely because it had been too long since she last ate (finished off the last of her food around 6:45am almost 12 hours prior), so to give her some food and continue to watch her and update her tomorrow (today).
It’s Friday morning and I’ve given her two doses of sulcrafate (one last night and this morning) and we fed her twice last night and again, she is still eating her full meals and drinking, albeit she was a little slower to finish off her food last night. My husband is going to check on her at noon and feed her a small meal so I will continue to update.
Has anyone else been in a similar situation like this? The vet keeps mentioning pancreatitis but I wonder if she doesn’t have IBD? Or maybe we simply just wait too long to feed her between meals? The stress of the holidays? Again, the xray was clear and bloodwork was normal except for the low white blood cell count.
I’m an overly anxiously cat mom and the stress of the past few days has been killing me. I’m so worried about Jeri that I obsessively watch and listen to her every move and I’m looking for a little reassurance. Any feedback helps.
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Thanks!
Jeri is my 2-year old tabby, spayed, indoor-only, and generally in great health. Last year she developed an infection (which I noticed because her eating had slowed) from ruptured anal glands, so we ended up putting her on prescription Royal Canin Gastroinstestinal dry food. She has been great with it. She is a little overweight so we have been measuring her food into 2 meals usually feeding her around 7:30pm and 7:30am.
A few months ago she started getting hungrier at bedtime (around 10pm), waking us up in the middle of the night to be fed, so we changed her feeding schedule to 7:30pm and 9:30pm. She’s been fine with this but has recently had a few days of mix-ups over the holidays having been fed at 9:30pm and 7:30am while staying with my sister and her cat. We brought her back home last Tues (Dec 27) and got back on her regular feeding schedule.
This Monday, Jan 2, Jeri woke us up at 7:30am by vomiting a hairball along with all of her food. She never pukes so it was alarming to us but I did note the hairball inside and assumed she was okay. A few hours later she puked again, but only foamy bile. I immediately called the vet and got an appointment for 12pm but she ended up puking bile again before we left for the appointment. So, 3 vomits in 4 hours.
Our vet is really great and thorough and suggested perhaps an obstruction, if not, pancreatitis. We went with full blood work and an xray. In the meantime we started her on sulcrafate and some pain meds for her tummy pain and she was fine overnight, eating and drinking and using the litter box normally. The next day with the results we ruled out pancreatitis from the bloodwork and xray and any obstruction, but her white blood cell count was low so we started her on antibiotics. I’ve been giving them to her after her first feeding at night.
Jeri continued to be fine Tuesday night, Wednesday, and Thursday during the day but around 6:00pm last night she vomited bile. Again, she has been perfectly fine otherwise – drinking, eating, and pooping/peeing the same. I called the vet and she said that it was likely because it had been too long since she last ate (finished off the last of her food around 6:45am almost 12 hours prior), so to give her some food and continue to watch her and update her tomorrow (today).
It’s Friday morning and I’ve given her two doses of sulcrafate (one last night and this morning) and we fed her twice last night and again, she is still eating her full meals and drinking, albeit she was a little slower to finish off her food last night. My husband is going to check on her at noon and feed her a small meal so I will continue to update.
Has anyone else been in a similar situation like this? The vet keeps mentioning pancreatitis but I wonder if she doesn’t have IBD? Or maybe we simply just wait too long to feed her between meals? The stress of the holidays? Again, the xray was clear and bloodwork was normal except for the low white blood cell count.
I’m an overly anxiously cat mom and the stress of the past few days has been killing me. I’m so worried about Jeri that I obsessively watch and listen to her every move and I’m looking for a little reassurance. Any feedback helps.
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Thanks!