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A rant. It’s beginning to feel like an endless battle....
2 weeks ago, my cat was blocked for the first time. They cathed him and sent him back to me. Finally he recovered and was peeing beautiful streams of clear pee. I was also taking extra care of his diet and making sure he was hydrated. It was obviously working because his pee got clearer and clearer by the day, there was no more blood and he was producing bigger clumps of pee day by day. I was beyond ecstatic.
2 weeks later, I caught him straining to pee again and dripping slow drops of pee. This time, the poor boy strained so hard he even pooped bloody stools. Almost jelly-like blood clot looking.
My heart sank. Went to the ER and surprisingly the vet didn’t think it was grave at all. Vet told me his bladder is empty and small so technically he didn’t have a second blockage.
He just thinks my cat keeps getting stressed by SOMETHING and it keeps causing his urethra to become inflamed hence making him pee in tiny amounts and in drops. Basically, my cat isn’t always blocked...he just KEEPS having utis. I’m terrible at feeling for his bladder so I keep rushing him down to the ER whenever I see him peeing badly ($$$) just for the vet to send me home saying “oh your cat is just stressed, nobody knows what the hell is happening but here take this medication and go home. Call us again when you want to schedule the PU surgery.”
I’ve exhausted all options. It just feels like a never ending battle with reoccurring UTIs that nobody can fix or find the cause. I feel so heartbroken but probably the next time I would go for the PU surgery. For his sake and mine.
2 weeks ago, my cat was blocked for the first time. They cathed him and sent him back to me. Finally he recovered and was peeing beautiful streams of clear pee. I was also taking extra care of his diet and making sure he was hydrated. It was obviously working because his pee got clearer and clearer by the day, there was no more blood and he was producing bigger clumps of pee day by day. I was beyond ecstatic.
2 weeks later, I caught him straining to pee again and dripping slow drops of pee. This time, the poor boy strained so hard he even pooped bloody stools. Almost jelly-like blood clot looking.
My heart sank. Went to the ER and surprisingly the vet didn’t think it was grave at all. Vet told me his bladder is empty and small so technically he didn’t have a second blockage.
He just thinks my cat keeps getting stressed by SOMETHING and it keeps causing his urethra to become inflamed hence making him pee in tiny amounts and in drops. Basically, my cat isn’t always blocked...he just KEEPS having utis. I’m terrible at feeling for his bladder so I keep rushing him down to the ER whenever I see him peeing badly ($$$) just for the vet to send me home saying “oh your cat is just stressed, nobody knows what the hell is happening but here take this medication and go home. Call us again when you want to schedule the PU surgery.”
I’ve exhausted all options. It just feels like a never ending battle with reoccurring UTIs that nobody can fix or find the cause. I feel so heartbroken but probably the next time I would go for the PU surgery. For his sake and mine.