I am being helped on another cat forum, but I kind of need a second opinion here. My vet is useless, as usual.
My cat has what appears to be kidney issues based on his most recent lab work. I worry he has cancer though and so does the vet. He needs to get more lab tests done and I want to keep the costs low without sacrificing his health. His labs showed low T4.
Does that need to be retested or can it be assumed that it's probably normal, but something else is going on affecting it? What I mean is that maybe if we can figure out what's wrong with him and treat him, maybe the T4 levels will return to normal. I hope that made sense.
Basically, does the low T4 need to be tested and treated with medication, or is it more important just to figure out what's throwing off the other test results.
He has proteinuria, that's the big thing. The other stuff was borderline low potassium and borderline high BUN. I forget the other thing, but it was something off in the urinalysis, not an infection though. Something related to the kidneys, like proteinuria.
My cat has what appears to be kidney issues based on his most recent lab work. I worry he has cancer though and so does the vet. He needs to get more lab tests done and I want to keep the costs low without sacrificing his health. His labs showed low T4.
Does that need to be retested or can it be assumed that it's probably normal, but something else is going on affecting it? What I mean is that maybe if we can figure out what's wrong with him and treat him, maybe the T4 levels will return to normal. I hope that made sense.
Basically, does the low T4 need to be tested and treated with medication, or is it more important just to figure out what's throwing off the other test results.
He has proteinuria, that's the big thing. The other stuff was borderline low potassium and borderline high BUN. I forget the other thing, but it was something off in the urinalysis, not an infection though. Something related to the kidneys, like proteinuria.