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I was informed this week that my sweet little Tiger (who is 9, has his 10th birthday in September) has wet FIP. On Monday I was told it was cancer. I'm really hoping that they're wrong again.
For awhile now he's been struggling with constipation issues. Last weekend it seemed to get a little worse and to the point where he was lethargic. I brought him to the vet on Monday (my birthday, of all days) and had to leave him there all day as an emergency appointment as they were fully booked. They ran his bloodwork, which I will attach, and attempted to do an xray. The vet called me back saying there was too much fluid in his abdomen to be able to see anything with the xray. So she drained a lot of fluid out of him and then performed an ultrasound. She said she couldn't see any obstructions but his intestines seemed to be pushed together/compressed/tightly wound - I can't remember her exact terminology but her point was that she couldn't see much because it was too tight to see through or around. She couldn't see or feel a tumor but thought that might be what was pushing on his intestines to make them look that way. She put a sample of the extracted fluid under a microscope and said she saw a lot of white blood cells and some seemed to be a strange shape - sort of malformed. That's when she dropped the cancer bomb on me. She said she was fairly certain it was cancer. I had her send a sample off to pathology just to be sure. Well, yesterday she called me back and it's not cancer, it's wet FIP - but another "guess" from someone. She said there's another test that can be run to check for FIP and I told her to do it. The test won't be run until Tuesday (I have to wait an entire week to get a result on this!!!!) but is there even a test that accurately tests for FIP?
Tiger sleeps a lot. But becomes alert when it's time to eat (which THANKFULLY he is still doing but not very much) or when I let him outside. He is definitely not himself anymore. He hides most of time (unless he just likes sleeping under the bed now) and he doesn't play. Getting him to purr can be a chore sometimes.
Tiger doesn't go outside too much. A few times during the summer but this week I've been letting him out more just because I don't know how much longer I have with him so I want to spoil him.
I took him to another vet on Thursday and she came up with the same possible diagnosis. I'm really hoping it's something else but I don't know what it could be or if my vet would even entertain the idea of it being something else.
Not sure if I missed any information or if there are other questions people have but ask away! I'll share what I know.
Thanks again!
I was informed this week that my sweet little Tiger (who is 9, has his 10th birthday in September) has wet FIP. On Monday I was told it was cancer. I'm really hoping that they're wrong again.
For awhile now he's been struggling with constipation issues. Last weekend it seemed to get a little worse and to the point where he was lethargic. I brought him to the vet on Monday (my birthday, of all days) and had to leave him there all day as an emergency appointment as they were fully booked. They ran his bloodwork, which I will attach, and attempted to do an xray. The vet called me back saying there was too much fluid in his abdomen to be able to see anything with the xray. So she drained a lot of fluid out of him and then performed an ultrasound. She said she couldn't see any obstructions but his intestines seemed to be pushed together/compressed/tightly wound - I can't remember her exact terminology but her point was that she couldn't see much because it was too tight to see through or around. She couldn't see or feel a tumor but thought that might be what was pushing on his intestines to make them look that way. She put a sample of the extracted fluid under a microscope and said she saw a lot of white blood cells and some seemed to be a strange shape - sort of malformed. That's when she dropped the cancer bomb on me. She said she was fairly certain it was cancer. I had her send a sample off to pathology just to be sure. Well, yesterday she called me back and it's not cancer, it's wet FIP - but another "guess" from someone. She said there's another test that can be run to check for FIP and I told her to do it. The test won't be run until Tuesday (I have to wait an entire week to get a result on this!!!!) but is there even a test that accurately tests for FIP?
Tiger sleeps a lot. But becomes alert when it's time to eat (which THANKFULLY he is still doing but not very much) or when I let him outside. He is definitely not himself anymore. He hides most of time (unless he just likes sleeping under the bed now) and he doesn't play. Getting him to purr can be a chore sometimes.
Tiger doesn't go outside too much. A few times during the summer but this week I've been letting him out more just because I don't know how much longer I have with him so I want to spoil him.
I took him to another vet on Thursday and she came up with the same possible diagnosis. I'm really hoping it's something else but I don't know what it could be or if my vet would even entertain the idea of it being something else.
Not sure if I missed any information or if there are other questions people have but ask away! I'll share what I know.
Thanks again!
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