Well, today, I had some unforunate news. After 5 weeks of treatment Summer still has her UTI! After her dose of the first two weeks of medicine (clavamox), she still had to be on the medication for another week to clear it up, well lo and behold....it didn't work and to make matters more interesting, it was worse than before! Summer's vet did not understand this, and I agreed to have an x-ray taken to look for stones...NONE. So they put her on orbax (1/2 a pill a day) for 2 weeks. Today I took her back for yet another urinalysis, and she STILL has it, though not as bad. Her pH has stayed consistently at 6.5 which is good, and the bacteria was lower this time, however, she still has A LOT of red bloodcells despite the fact that her urine is not discolored. So, now she is still on the orbax for yet ANOTHER 2 weeks and in 3 weeks (in order to get a good sample minus all of the antibiotics involved) they may do a culture to find what is wrong. The vet said she thought it may be a problem (can't remember the name for the life of me) that may be caused by stress/anxiety. This was news to me, and as we talked, she asked me about Summer's activities and I told her about her looking out the windows a lot and she asked me if I lived on the first floor (I live on the 2nd) and if their were any cats outside. My landlord has a shed where they feed, water, and give beds to several ferals, and I noticed she loves to look out that window and watch, (she could possibly smell them too as I open that window sometimes). She also looks out the other windows at birds. When I first got her, she freaked out when we brought her to the other side of the shelter by cats she wasn't familiar with. She also got really frightened at the neighbors cats one, and the other cats at the vet....they said that everytime they would take a cat out or put one in she would hiss and her hair would stand up......she also did this when I took her out of the vet cage at one other cat that she couldn't even see as his cage was covered with a towel. She also kept walking around and meowing all day Friday and freaked out during the wee hours of the morning Friday night.....nothing I did would calm her down! So, anyway do you guys think her UTI's could be stress related? Is my vet taking me for a ride? Do you have any suggestions with anything I can try?
P.S. She is COMPLETELY fine with people and will walk up to a complete stranger and demand attention.
P.S. She is COMPLETELY fine with people and will walk up to a complete stranger and demand attention.