My 15 year-old Liza has both hyperthyroidism and chronic feline gingivostomatitis. As I posted last week, after two years, we've been having trouble keeping her thyroid levels properly controlled with methimazole, so I was going to do radioiodine 131 treatment, but to do that, we had to take her off methimazole to get a T4 baseline. I consulted carefully with my vet before doing this, and she said she thought it would be fine. After 10 days, we abandoned this because her overall condition was declining so quickly. The spike in T4 levels seems to have triggered the worst flare in her gingivostomatitis she's ever had. She's lost a lot of weight. She's able to eat a little bit, but it's obviously hard for her. I'm able to feed her some shredded and dampened pieces of chicken, which I've been doing regularly. She will also lick Nutrical off my finger, but not a huge amount. I've also been giving her gabapentin to control the discomfort, which does seem to help. I restarted methimazole on Thursday evening, and she's improved significantly since then. I just need to get as much nutrition in her now as possible in the hope that we can restabilize her overall condition.
Any tips on helping get calories into a cat with oral pain are greatly appreciated.
I'm not happy with my vet right now because I had misgivings about taking her off methimazole, but the doctor said it would be fine. It wasn't. The vet did give her fluids on Thursday, and I'm wondering if I should get them to give me a home subcutaneous fluids setup to support her. I've done it before for a year with a cat that had chronic kidney disease.
Any tips on helping get calories into a cat with oral pain are greatly appreciated.
I'm not happy with my vet right now because I had misgivings about taking her off methimazole, but the doctor said it would be fine. It wasn't. The vet did give her fluids on Thursday, and I'm wondering if I should get them to give me a home subcutaneous fluids setup to support her. I've done it before for a year with a cat that had chronic kidney disease.