Our 9 yr old flame point male Siamese has not pooped on his own in 10 days. He has been in and out of the vet office since last Tuesday and we are still not seeing any progress.
Multiple enemas were done over the course of the week with very little result, in fact yesterday morning he had his last one and there has been no result at all from that.
Thursday they put him under anesthetic and try manual deobstipation with poor results. So they did xrays and reported no abnormalities. Ran a complete blood work and found a higher level of lymphocytes. Upon inspection they we’re found to be abnormal in appearance, which the vet says could be due to stress, infection or cancer. Though they didn’t see anything tumoresque on the xrays.
He is on restoralax & Lactulose, & watered down wet food. They sent home pain meds for yesterday and today and a weeks worth of amoxicillin.
Small amount a waste was produce on Friday night, but now. Nothing again since then.
He seems a little more himself today, willingly walks around but is moving pretty slowly.
If there is no production by morning we are going to have to contact the vet again, but honestly they seem at a bit of a loss too and it’s starting to get out of hand expensive now.
We need some suggestions for getting things moving. Please.
Multiple enemas were done over the course of the week with very little result, in fact yesterday morning he had his last one and there has been no result at all from that.
Thursday they put him under anesthetic and try manual deobstipation with poor results. So they did xrays and reported no abnormalities. Ran a complete blood work and found a higher level of lymphocytes. Upon inspection they we’re found to be abnormal in appearance, which the vet says could be due to stress, infection or cancer. Though they didn’t see anything tumoresque on the xrays.
He is on restoralax & Lactulose, & watered down wet food. They sent home pain meds for yesterday and today and a weeks worth of amoxicillin.
Small amount a waste was produce on Friday night, but now. Nothing again since then.
He seems a little more himself today, willingly walks around but is moving pretty slowly.
If there is no production by morning we are going to have to contact the vet again, but honestly they seem at a bit of a loss too and it’s starting to get out of hand expensive now.
We need some suggestions for getting things moving. Please.
- I'm so sorry this is happening!
What an awful predicament! Is he straining to go? Have you tried gentle massage? The traditional technique is the rub your hands briskly together till they are warm, then, beginning at the "belly button", very lightly move your hand in a gentle circle in a clockwise direction. with each pass, make the circle larger until you are rubbing the outer edges of the abdomen. Then, going clockwise, and beginning with large circles but making each next circle smaller, work your way back to the navel area. Repeat the process, but enlarging the circles in a counterclockwise direction and reduce the circles in a clockwise direction. If he tolerates that, use your fingertips to lightly massage in tiny circles that follow the path of the increasing & decreasing circles. While doing the tiny circles, be alert for feeling any lumps and gently massage that area in a clockwise motion up to 90seconds but only if tolerated. afterwards, you can hold each paw in a light "pinch" with your thumb on the underneath of the paw & use your thumb to massage the large paw pad and the area behind that, between the back "beans".
