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Hi Everyone,
Sort of grasping at last chance straws here, but has anyone had any experience with cats that have spinal lesions? Specifically on cats under 1 year of age?
Our 9ish month old dsh started acting like she was in pain about a month ago -- she sleeps most of the day, and when she is up, she can't jump up to her food bowl (she can jump down, though), she cries whenever we pick her up, and she growls at her sister whenever she comes near. There didn't appear to be any traumatic accidents before the change in behavior. We've taken her to 2 different vets a total of 3 times now, and after fluids, antibiotics, pain meds, and blood work showing she didn't have feline leukemia, an x-ray finally found a big lesion in the middle of her back and a smaller one towards her tail. We've been recommended to a specialist who will charge close to $200 just to see her. I'm not going to lie and say money is no issue because we aren't the richest people in the world and we have already spent $600 on her. But we also don't want to give up on her. If anyone has any advice on this topic, it would be really appreciated. We can figure out $200+ if the specialist is going to be able to provide us with a reasonable solution to give her a high quality life. But what little I've been able to get from Google shows this usually being an issue in older cats and has a TON of causes--one of which is cancer... and to spend all that money just to have the specialist tell us there's nothing they can really do just adds to this already heart-wrenching ordeal.
Thanks for any advice you guys have!
Sort of grasping at last chance straws here, but has anyone had any experience with cats that have spinal lesions? Specifically on cats under 1 year of age?
Our 9ish month old dsh started acting like she was in pain about a month ago -- she sleeps most of the day, and when she is up, she can't jump up to her food bowl (she can jump down, though), she cries whenever we pick her up, and she growls at her sister whenever she comes near. There didn't appear to be any traumatic accidents before the change in behavior. We've taken her to 2 different vets a total of 3 times now, and after fluids, antibiotics, pain meds, and blood work showing she didn't have feline leukemia, an x-ray finally found a big lesion in the middle of her back and a smaller one towards her tail. We've been recommended to a specialist who will charge close to $200 just to see her. I'm not going to lie and say money is no issue because we aren't the richest people in the world and we have already spent $600 on her. But we also don't want to give up on her. If anyone has any advice on this topic, it would be really appreciated. We can figure out $200+ if the specialist is going to be able to provide us with a reasonable solution to give her a high quality life. But what little I've been able to get from Google shows this usually being an issue in older cats and has a TON of causes--one of which is cancer... and to spend all that money just to have the specialist tell us there's nothing they can really do just adds to this already heart-wrenching ordeal.
Thanks for any advice you guys have!