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Not sure what to do. My cat is very sick and I don't have the funds for testing her much further. Is it possible for a cat to have IBD and bowel lymphoma at the same time?
My poor kitty has had around $2K in testing in the last week after of having continuous diarrhea outside of her box and vomiting. We thought she had caught worms from our new puppy who had whipworm. Now her list of diagnosis is stacking up and the vets she saw were not very helpful as the 1st one told us she would be fine, the sonographer said she would be fine, then today they are saying she's not and needs further testing ASAP.
She's formally been diagnosed with: Hypersensitive Allergies, IBD, Intestinal Fibrosis, Cystitis (calcium oxalate crystals), Bladder Stones, Hyperglycemia, Hypercalcinemia, Eosinophilic Enteritis, and Food Responsive Enteritis
She was believed all week to just have IBD, but after getting her urinalysis back and seeing she has Hypercalcinemia, the emergency vets she saw believes she could have lymphoma of the bowel on top of IBD. Both the vet who ran her tests and the sonographer who did her ultrasound are stumped as she turns 4yrs old in 5 days and some of her diagnoses are most common in cats over the age of 10.
They believe there is a strong connection between her severe allergies and all of her intestinal issues. The sonographer noted that the majority of her swelling and inflamed lymph nodes were located in the groin/bowel region and not her intestines, and that the majority of the abdominal structure was still visible via ultrasound. Meaning, the thickening of the abdominal wall is minimal right now. She does has fibrosis starting in her intestines though.
My cat's behavior has been okay. She's still eating and has a bit of increased thirst. She's mainly sleeping, but has been on amoxicillin for the last week for the bladder crystals.
Because I can't afford to take her to an internist and have biopsies performed, we are going to take a palliative care approach (prescription diet, B12 supplement, and prednisone if she doesn't have a reaction to it). She's also at most 7lbs as she's a Torbie and they are small cats, which is even more reason for me to not want to go through with exploratory surgery. The vets also want me to continue her through immunotherapy, but I don't want to put her through all of these medications and treatments at once as her allergy symptoms really recovered after learning what she was allergic to. It would also be really costly.
I'm scared I don't have much time with her left and that if we can't find a good food for her, then the swelling is going to get worse. She's my whole world and I feel like I failed her. I don't really know what to do. If anyone has experience with these diagnoses, especially all of them at the same time, I would love and appreciate any advice you can give. I'm already in the IBDKitty Facebook group, but since I don't have an answer to what is wrong with her, their advice can only go so far.
I'm super upset as all of the swelling and issues happening are new. She just had most of these tests ran back in February when she had an acute UTI. They didn't note anything weird at that point in time. Now all of her tests are showing major signs that something is wrong.
My poor kitty has had around $2K in testing in the last week after of having continuous diarrhea outside of her box and vomiting. We thought she had caught worms from our new puppy who had whipworm. Now her list of diagnosis is stacking up and the vets she saw were not very helpful as the 1st one told us she would be fine, the sonographer said she would be fine, then today they are saying she's not and needs further testing ASAP.
She's formally been diagnosed with: Hypersensitive Allergies, IBD, Intestinal Fibrosis, Cystitis (calcium oxalate crystals), Bladder Stones, Hyperglycemia, Hypercalcinemia, Eosinophilic Enteritis, and Food Responsive Enteritis
She was believed all week to just have IBD, but after getting her urinalysis back and seeing she has Hypercalcinemia, the emergency vets she saw believes she could have lymphoma of the bowel on top of IBD. Both the vet who ran her tests and the sonographer who did her ultrasound are stumped as she turns 4yrs old in 5 days and some of her diagnoses are most common in cats over the age of 10.
They believe there is a strong connection between her severe allergies and all of her intestinal issues. The sonographer noted that the majority of her swelling and inflamed lymph nodes were located in the groin/bowel region and not her intestines, and that the majority of the abdominal structure was still visible via ultrasound. Meaning, the thickening of the abdominal wall is minimal right now. She does has fibrosis starting in her intestines though.
My cat's behavior has been okay. She's still eating and has a bit of increased thirst. She's mainly sleeping, but has been on amoxicillin for the last week for the bladder crystals.
Because I can't afford to take her to an internist and have biopsies performed, we are going to take a palliative care approach (prescription diet, B12 supplement, and prednisone if she doesn't have a reaction to it). She's also at most 7lbs as she's a Torbie and they are small cats, which is even more reason for me to not want to go through with exploratory surgery. The vets also want me to continue her through immunotherapy, but I don't want to put her through all of these medications and treatments at once as her allergy symptoms really recovered after learning what she was allergic to. It would also be really costly.
I'm scared I don't have much time with her left and that if we can't find a good food for her, then the swelling is going to get worse. She's my whole world and I feel like I failed her. I don't really know what to do. If anyone has experience with these diagnoses, especially all of them at the same time, I would love and appreciate any advice you can give. I'm already in the IBDKitty Facebook group, but since I don't have an answer to what is wrong with her, their advice can only go so far.
I'm super upset as all of the swelling and issues happening are new. She just had most of these tests ran back in February when she had an acute UTI. They didn't note anything weird at that point in time. Now all of her tests are showing major signs that something is wrong.
