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My (estimated) 10 year old cat was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism a few weeks ago and we attempted to administer the transdermal tapazole, but the poor guy had the side-effect where his face got extremely itchy and we discontinued the medication after he started making himself bleed from itching. According to our vet and the veterinary medicine school they consulted, medicine treatments will likely continue to result in this side-effect and our only options are 1) Surgery 2) Iodine injection or 3) Try dietary/no treatment. Apparently, four weeks of the medicine is preferred to rule out potential kidney problems, but since he had this side-effect we won't know how his kidneys will respond until we take a more permanent solution, at which point we'll have a cat with kidney disease. His BUN was slightly elevated but his creatinine levels were within normal limits.
Has anyone else come across this problem of not being able to use the medications? We are able to afford the surgery or the iodine so that is not a worry, but I have this fear of doing this permanent surgery and our cat suddenly going into kidney failure and all the complications/expenses/pain/fear that would entail...
Has anyone else come across this problem of not being able to use the medications? We are able to afford the surgery or the iodine so that is not a worry, but I have this fear of doing this permanent surgery and our cat suddenly going into kidney failure and all the complications/expenses/pain/fear that would entail...