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I adopted KiKi the three year old Maine Coon after fostering her for a month. I met her at the SPCA while volunteering. She was a cruelty case (starved, abused) and was put up for adoption a few weeks after my 14 yr old kitty died of Kidney failure. I got attached to her and I found out they were going to put her down because she had an ulcer in her mouth. She had been there over two months at that point and was overlooked due to the dozens of kittens. She was put on clindamycin and they thought it was a rotten tooth, I took her in to get the tooth taken out and they ended up removing 14 teeth, all but her front teeth. They gave me one days worth of buprenorphine and let me officially adopt her.
We took her to the vet a week later (a month ago now) and the vet said her mouth looked like it was healing but prescribed more antibiotics because she was still red. We also found out she has a grade 3 heart murmur, something I was not told and the vet tech/vet either didn't check or didn't hear anything while she was getting her teeth out so she is going back soon to get that rechecked and get her mouth looked at. She is eating good (I switched her to grain free, wet food diet since the ulcer appeared after she had been eating low quality food at the SPCA, she didn't come in with it) and she has a lot of energy, isn't drooling, etc but her mouth does look a little red still. Vet said the next step would be steroids. I don't want her to be put on steroids due to my bad experience with them with my kitty that passed away and because she has the heart murmur. I've also read that it can take up to 6 months after removing the teeth to see if the stomatitis is gone or not anyway.
Has anyone had success with other methods besides steroids? Is there anything I can suggest to the vet instead of steroids if she thinks she needs to be put on them? What are your experiences with stomatitis? I'm interested in hearing other people's stories, I've never heard of it before I adopted her.
We took her to the vet a week later (a month ago now) and the vet said her mouth looked like it was healing but prescribed more antibiotics because she was still red. We also found out she has a grade 3 heart murmur, something I was not told and the vet tech/vet either didn't check or didn't hear anything while she was getting her teeth out so she is going back soon to get that rechecked and get her mouth looked at. She is eating good (I switched her to grain free, wet food diet since the ulcer appeared after she had been eating low quality food at the SPCA, she didn't come in with it) and she has a lot of energy, isn't drooling, etc but her mouth does look a little red still. Vet said the next step would be steroids. I don't want her to be put on steroids due to my bad experience with them with my kitty that passed away and because she has the heart murmur. I've also read that it can take up to 6 months after removing the teeth to see if the stomatitis is gone or not anyway.
Has anyone had success with other methods besides steroids? Is there anything I can suggest to the vet instead of steroids if she thinks she needs to be put on them? What are your experiences with stomatitis? I'm interested in hearing other people's stories, I've never heard of it before I adopted her.