In my last thread I mentioned Krissy slowly losing weight but remained her usual self.
I don't think that is the case anymore, it appears to me that she may have lymphoma now.......ugh, those dreaded words.
Without getting in to how I am tormented with this, can't sleep, etc I need to stick with the real questions, stay focused.
I spoke with the vet yesterday who agrees she has likely crossed the turning point and is showing early lymphoma signs, no vomiting, no diarrhea, only loss of appetite and weight loss, which apparently is the first sign.
Unfortunately I assumed I would see her revert to vomiting as her IBD caused, but not be able to get uinder control, to me, that would mean she has advanced in to lymphoma, but not so.
She still has times where she acts fine, but for the most part, she sleeps so much, acts 'under the weather', much less interested in eating.
Now the vet I spoke to is not Krissy's original vet I was first dealing with, I felt a lack of experience with IBD in her generally speaking, but remember the vet who came in to do her ultrasound is exceptionally great and considered as the best in her profession, so I felt confident in the ultrasound results.
So if my next step is to get an ultrasound I will go through her former vet again so I get that excellent vet to perform it, then her recommendation for treatment I will give to her new vet, well that was the plan but she told me about a current cat she is treating for lymphoma now, that includes 60 days straight of chlorambucil/leukeran.
But reviewing other sites for treatment, that might be overkill.
I do not care to put Krissy through a biopsy, so am hoping the ultrasound will show the vet clearly what we are dealing with, is that unrealistic?
I've read treatments of other names of chemo, and like 4 days on, 21 days off, etc.
Anyone else have a story of their cat and what the treatment was and outcome by chance?
I need to get on this now that I am convinced she is there.
Thanks.
I don't think that is the case anymore, it appears to me that she may have lymphoma now.......ugh, those dreaded words.
Without getting in to how I am tormented with this, can't sleep, etc I need to stick with the real questions, stay focused.
I spoke with the vet yesterday who agrees she has likely crossed the turning point and is showing early lymphoma signs, no vomiting, no diarrhea, only loss of appetite and weight loss, which apparently is the first sign.
Unfortunately I assumed I would see her revert to vomiting as her IBD caused, but not be able to get uinder control, to me, that would mean she has advanced in to lymphoma, but not so.
She still has times where she acts fine, but for the most part, she sleeps so much, acts 'under the weather', much less interested in eating.
Now the vet I spoke to is not Krissy's original vet I was first dealing with, I felt a lack of experience with IBD in her generally speaking, but remember the vet who came in to do her ultrasound is exceptionally great and considered as the best in her profession, so I felt confident in the ultrasound results.
So if my next step is to get an ultrasound I will go through her former vet again so I get that excellent vet to perform it, then her recommendation for treatment I will give to her new vet, well that was the plan but she told me about a current cat she is treating for lymphoma now, that includes 60 days straight of chlorambucil/leukeran.
But reviewing other sites for treatment, that might be overkill.
I do not care to put Krissy through a biopsy, so am hoping the ultrasound will show the vet clearly what we are dealing with, is that unrealistic?
I've read treatments of other names of chemo, and like 4 days on, 21 days off, etc.
Anyone else have a story of their cat and what the treatment was and outcome by chance?
I need to get on this now that I am convinced she is there.
Thanks.