6 year old indoor cat, eating less for the last few months, seems to prefer grazing a few bites at a time but was maintaining his weight and very active.
8 days ago started throwing up after meals. on and off for about 5 days. Then didn't want to eat at all one morning.not even human turkey cold cuts, his favorite I went to vet that day. x-ray was fine. all blood work was fine, a few things slightly off but she didn't think it's more than IBS and maybe slight pancreatitis, but leaned more toward IBS and upset stomach sort of thing. SHe gave him a shot to help with nausea and he came home, ate super light for 3 days and now today throwing up white foam with pink ( blood) in it. Called vet and she prescribed 3 days of a pill for that nausea( same ingredient) as the shot and a few weeks of prednisone. so today I started both and what a nightmare, this sweetie hated them and was foaming up, drooling and wanted the meds out of his mouth. he now has not eaten at all since yesterday, maybe 30-36 hours but he is drinking and I gave him some extra ml water so he doesn't dehydrate.
any thoughts, advise or input appreciated. The vet did say that if he doesn't eat one day, don't freak out, give this anti-nausea medicine more time to work but it's been 4 hours since I gave it so I don't think it's working at all, and not even sure if he got the right dosage. it's only 1/4 pill 1x a day for 3 or 4 days. tried it crushed in water and he foamed so I'll try just the 1/4 pill straight tomorrow.
8 days ago started throwing up after meals. on and off for about 5 days. Then didn't want to eat at all one morning.not even human turkey cold cuts, his favorite I went to vet that day. x-ray was fine. all blood work was fine, a few things slightly off but she didn't think it's more than IBS and maybe slight pancreatitis, but leaned more toward IBS and upset stomach sort of thing. SHe gave him a shot to help with nausea and he came home, ate super light for 3 days and now today throwing up white foam with pink ( blood) in it. Called vet and she prescribed 3 days of a pill for that nausea( same ingredient) as the shot and a few weeks of prednisone. so today I started both and what a nightmare, this sweetie hated them and was foaming up, drooling and wanted the meds out of his mouth. he now has not eaten at all since yesterday, maybe 30-36 hours but he is drinking and I gave him some extra ml water so he doesn't dehydrate.
any thoughts, advise or input appreciated. The vet did say that if he doesn't eat one day, don't freak out, give this anti-nausea medicine more time to work but it's been 4 hours since I gave it so I don't think it's working at all, and not even sure if he got the right dosage. it's only 1/4 pill 1x a day for 3 or 4 days. tried it crushed in water and he foamed so I'll try just the 1/4 pill straight tomorrow.