Hi,
I was wondering if I can call on the wealth of experience that seems to be floating around this board?
One of our cats (Shelley - approx 6yrs old) has got quite thin recently and we took her to the vet who thinks she has an over-active thyroid. We're waiting for the result of the blood test to confirm it but she seems to have lots of the associated symptoms so I guess it's pretty likely to be confirmed.
What I am wondering about are the treatment options... it seems she can either have a pill every day forever, an operation to remove it or radio-therapy.
Radiotherapy would mean being quarantined for 3 weeks and a trip to London, which I think would be too stressful for her, so I've kind of ruled that out. I'm not all that keen on giving her medication every day as she gets upset if you try to force things on her so I think that would also be not nice for her.
On balance I feel that it would be better to have it removed but am wondering if anyone has any experience of this operation and how successful it's likely to be? Obviously I guess that will be traumatic for her too, but I feel maybe a 'one-off' event might be better than daily pill wrestling.
When we get the results I'll have to talk to the vet but at the time I think I was a bit freaked out by the whole thing.
Any advice or suggestions would be really appreciated. Also any ideas as to how we can fatten up our poor girl as she is looking very thin at the mo.
Many thanks
Rosie
I was wondering if I can call on the wealth of experience that seems to be floating around this board?
One of our cats (Shelley - approx 6yrs old) has got quite thin recently and we took her to the vet who thinks she has an over-active thyroid. We're waiting for the result of the blood test to confirm it but she seems to have lots of the associated symptoms so I guess it's pretty likely to be confirmed.
What I am wondering about are the treatment options... it seems she can either have a pill every day forever, an operation to remove it or radio-therapy.
Radiotherapy would mean being quarantined for 3 weeks and a trip to London, which I think would be too stressful for her, so I've kind of ruled that out. I'm not all that keen on giving her medication every day as she gets upset if you try to force things on her so I think that would also be not nice for her.
On balance I feel that it would be better to have it removed but am wondering if anyone has any experience of this operation and how successful it's likely to be? Obviously I guess that will be traumatic for her too, but I feel maybe a 'one-off' event might be better than daily pill wrestling.
When we get the results I'll have to talk to the vet but at the time I think I was a bit freaked out by the whole thing.
Any advice or suggestions would be really appreciated. Also any ideas as to how we can fatten up our poor girl as she is looking very thin at the mo.
Many thanks
Rosie