Hi all,
I am new to this site and I wanted to post about my cat, Timmer. Right before Thanksgiving this year he started having loose bloody stool. Our vet immediately did blood work and put him on Prednisolone and an antibiotic. Unfortunatley, neither worked for long, and on Christmas eve I had him at the emergency clinic because he couldn't poop. He was straining so hard he fell over and was having spasms in his gut. The clinic gave him an enema, fluids, pain meds, and sent us home. Christmas day he only let the enema water out and no poop. The next day I took him to our regular vet. They sedated him and manually worked out the poop. Two days later I had him back at the Emergency Clinic and he saw their GI specialist. Timmer had an untrasound and colonoscopy with a biopsy. He basically has IBD/Crohn's/colitis. He is on 5 mg. Pred. per day and I just started the Leukeran this week. He gets .5 ml every 72 hours, made up at the Diamondback pharmacy as a compound liquid.
In my opinion, he's not doing so well. Good days and bad. Strains a lot, the stool that comes out is like a twig it's so thin. His colon is nearly swollen shut, I think, with inflammation. The GI tells me just realize when he goes to the box and strains, it's not always that he has to go, but he FEELS like he has to go, because of the inflammation.
So, ....what are your experiences with IBD, Leukeran? How long did it take for the Leukeran to work?
Listen, I love that cat to the moon and back; I cried when I had to give him the chemo and I have to do it again tonight. The thought of giving him something I wouldn't want to take, makes me sick. He is my cat and I love him -- he's not a science experiment. I know he is uncomfortable a lot of times. I can tell. The GI tells me the Leukeran could take 2 weeks to work. I'm also giving him 1/4 teasp. Miralax a day and again 5 mg. Pred. Sometimes he does go poop and it's diarrhea. I'd rather see that than the stick-like stools he strains to push out.
I feel so bad for him and this is so stressful on me. I worry.
His attitude is still good and he eats like a champ, drinks water, pees. He even played today. I was expecting dreadful side effects from the Leukeran and the only thing I noticed was about two hours after I gave it to him, he became very still and slept alone that night. Next day he was fine.
I'm just really scared about this and so frustrated.
GI doc told me feed him whatever he wants to eat but told me stay away from the grain free, that the extra protein would be too hard on his digestion.
Any input is welcome.
Thanks.
I am new to this site and I wanted to post about my cat, Timmer. Right before Thanksgiving this year he started having loose bloody stool. Our vet immediately did blood work and put him on Prednisolone and an antibiotic. Unfortunatley, neither worked for long, and on Christmas eve I had him at the emergency clinic because he couldn't poop. He was straining so hard he fell over and was having spasms in his gut. The clinic gave him an enema, fluids, pain meds, and sent us home. Christmas day he only let the enema water out and no poop. The next day I took him to our regular vet. They sedated him and manually worked out the poop. Two days later I had him back at the Emergency Clinic and he saw their GI specialist. Timmer had an untrasound and colonoscopy with a biopsy. He basically has IBD/Crohn's/colitis. He is on 5 mg. Pred. per day and I just started the Leukeran this week. He gets .5 ml every 72 hours, made up at the Diamondback pharmacy as a compound liquid.
In my opinion, he's not doing so well. Good days and bad. Strains a lot, the stool that comes out is like a twig it's so thin. His colon is nearly swollen shut, I think, with inflammation. The GI tells me just realize when he goes to the box and strains, it's not always that he has to go, but he FEELS like he has to go, because of the inflammation.
So, ....what are your experiences with IBD, Leukeran? How long did it take for the Leukeran to work?
Listen, I love that cat to the moon and back; I cried when I had to give him the chemo and I have to do it again tonight. The thought of giving him something I wouldn't want to take, makes me sick. He is my cat and I love him -- he's not a science experiment. I know he is uncomfortable a lot of times. I can tell. The GI tells me the Leukeran could take 2 weeks to work. I'm also giving him 1/4 teasp. Miralax a day and again 5 mg. Pred. Sometimes he does go poop and it's diarrhea. I'd rather see that than the stick-like stools he strains to push out.
I feel so bad for him and this is so stressful on me. I worry.
His attitude is still good and he eats like a champ, drinks water, pees. He even played today. I was expecting dreadful side effects from the Leukeran and the only thing I noticed was about two hours after I gave it to him, he became very still and slept alone that night. Next day he was fine.
I'm just really scared about this and so frustrated.
GI doc told me feed him whatever he wants to eat but told me stay away from the grain free, that the extra protein would be too hard on his digestion.
Any input is welcome.
Thanks.
