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Hi everyone, I remember you guys being so helpful when Piper was dealing with her allergy problems, I'm hoping you can help again. Hold on, this is a long story
My cat Piper is a spayed, just over 1 year old female. Awhile ago, I believe in August, I noticed she kept scratching in the litter box, squatting, but making very little urine. I took her in to the vet, they did a urinalysis which showed blood in the urine and a high pH. (I believe it was 9.) It was diagnosed as a UTI, she got some Clavamox, came home and got better.
About one month ago she started showing the same frequent urination behavior. Vet gave her some Clavamox again, and the UTI seemed to clear up, but a couple days later was back, and this time with a TON of blood in her urine. As in, her urine was bright red. The vet was convinced it must be bladder stones with that amount of blood, so we did an x-ray, and when that was clear, she had an ultrasound on her bladder and kidneys. The ultrasound vet said her bladder wall look a little thick, but that it was normal with an infection. When she looked at her kidneys, the one looked perfectly fine, and she said the other looked like it may have some "crud" in it, maybe some small crystals or something, but nothing that would cause that much blood. So they figured it was probably just a bad bladder infection, she was switched to Baytril and we hoped for the best. They did a urinalysis a week later, and that looked completely fine.
Well, she's been fine for the past two weeks since being on the Baytril, but when I woke up this morning she was doing the old going to the litter box every 10 minutes to pee a drop or two of urine. As far as I could tell there wasn't any visible blood in it, but she has me all scared again. She's already scheduled for a follow up ultrasound next Wednesday, and I talked to the vet this morning and I think she's running out of ideas. I was really fearing it may be tumors with that amount of blood, but she's so young and the ultrasound looked fine.
Does anyone have any other ideas? I must mention, Piper has severe food allergies that have been fine since she started eating the Venison and Peas, but this also means she can't eat the special urinary diet for crystals. The vet is thinking maybe giving her some subQ fluids to trying to get it flushed out. She's also on an all-dry diet, so maybe if I start subbing in some of the venison canned food?? Please let me know if you have any ideas, I feel so bad for the little girl. She's my only cat, and I live alone, so I'd be pretty devastated if anything happened to her.
Thanks in advance.
My cat Piper is a spayed, just over 1 year old female. Awhile ago, I believe in August, I noticed she kept scratching in the litter box, squatting, but making very little urine. I took her in to the vet, they did a urinalysis which showed blood in the urine and a high pH. (I believe it was 9.) It was diagnosed as a UTI, she got some Clavamox, came home and got better.
About one month ago she started showing the same frequent urination behavior. Vet gave her some Clavamox again, and the UTI seemed to clear up, but a couple days later was back, and this time with a TON of blood in her urine. As in, her urine was bright red. The vet was convinced it must be bladder stones with that amount of blood, so we did an x-ray, and when that was clear, she had an ultrasound on her bladder and kidneys. The ultrasound vet said her bladder wall look a little thick, but that it was normal with an infection. When she looked at her kidneys, the one looked perfectly fine, and she said the other looked like it may have some "crud" in it, maybe some small crystals or something, but nothing that would cause that much blood. So they figured it was probably just a bad bladder infection, she was switched to Baytril and we hoped for the best. They did a urinalysis a week later, and that looked completely fine.
Well, she's been fine for the past two weeks since being on the Baytril, but when I woke up this morning she was doing the old going to the litter box every 10 minutes to pee a drop or two of urine. As far as I could tell there wasn't any visible blood in it, but she has me all scared again. She's already scheduled for a follow up ultrasound next Wednesday, and I talked to the vet this morning and I think she's running out of ideas. I was really fearing it may be tumors with that amount of blood, but she's so young and the ultrasound looked fine.
Does anyone have any other ideas? I must mention, Piper has severe food allergies that have been fine since she started eating the Venison and Peas, but this also means she can't eat the special urinary diet for crystals. The vet is thinking maybe giving her some subQ fluids to trying to get it flushed out. She's also on an all-dry diet, so maybe if I start subbing in some of the venison canned food?? Please let me know if you have any ideas, I feel so bad for the little girl. She's my only cat, and I live alone, so I'd be pretty devastated if anything happened to her.
Thanks in advance.