Just a ordinary trip to the vet? NO! UPDATE

WHOA! What a LIFT!!! Kuhio, what a lift off my worried heart! THANKS! I am feeling better all the time!

There are so many different kinds of heart problems.Not many are the same.Winston had the absolute worst.ENLARGED heart.Nothing to do but some heart meds to prolong it a little.
My Lucy has a heart problem but it is a leaky valve.I was told she will live a full normal life.No meds for her.It would be bad for her heart if she took meds I was told.So ALL are different.
I'm so sorry for your worries.Please keep us posted.I want to learn too.
Lucy has a heart murmer.Winston had a heart murmer.Both very different.

**********HUGS**********

I am so sorry. :( I have no experience with it either but have read about it. If you'd like, I can type up the page from my book for you.

No need for you to go to all that trouble.. The answers I got here have made me feel so much better. I was freaking out because we rectently lost a PT kitty that I was very close to with heart disease and I..... well, you know what I jumped the gun and thought. I feel better now, knowing it is not a death sentance for her.

Oh Laura, prayers and hugs for you, Amy, and Giz

Oh Laura, I am so glad to read that you got some good advice and comforting words from those who have experienced this and it brought comfort to you.

You and beautiful Giz, will be in my prayers.

((((((HUGS))))))

Yes, rg... That is why I brought it directly to my PT family... I knew someone would have experience with this but I didn't expect so many positive stories and to have my worries made so much lighter so fast! ( A very GOOD thing!)

Giz goes this morning for her first round of tests! I drop her off in a little while (IF I can catch her), I pick her up this afternoon and then wait...... Argggg!
He said some results will be immdeiate, and some we have to wait for, blood work takes awhile.

Are you willing to get an ultra sound to make sure it isn't enlarged.The vets can't know that without an ultra sound.My vet in Massachusetts sent me for one for both Lucy and Benson.Both were a 4.But Lucy's ultra sound showed a leaky valve..no meds and will be fine.
Winstons showed enlarged and hardening around the outer edge of the heart.
Winston was the most active as far as jumping high on things and never feared any kind of jump and played harder than the rest of my 11 cats.Slept harder than the rest though.Eventually slept too much and became extremely weak.
But being both a #4 as to the heart murmer #'s,they were both very different.One was dying,the other fine.

I wanted to add that getting an ultra sound is expensive and it won't make to much a difference on your cats life,unless meds are needed.So don't feel guilty if you can't do it.It's pricey.If she seems OK then maybe you could just watch her for a while and do an ultra sound when changes in her happen.

Hummmm.... (been gone today and will have to go out again)

I am going to wait for the results of what they do today BUT.. If these show nothing, I am sure I WILL go to the next step.. I enjoy her TO much to just ignore anything that could help her. I have never had a cat like her, so full of mischief and such a CLOWN that she is the most entertaining cat I have ever known... Not to mention how her beauty takes my breath away. My income tax refund is sitting right here on my desk and it was going to go into savings but if I need to spend it on HER... I WILL! To me, she is worth it!

All tests that he could get results for today came back fine so now we wait for the blood work.. Sound like she will be put on medication when that comes back.... For whichever that shows...????

Oh, he said the day after he saw Giz, there was another that he found and they decided to do nothing....

I'm glad to hear that all the tests results were fine. Now, I will be waiting on pins and needles for the results of the blood tests.

Prayers still on the way for Giz and ((((((HUGS)))))) for you Laura.

My Artful Dodger had an ultra-sound so that we knew exactly what we were dealing with. They had to bring in a specilist to the vet hospital, so it was pricey but, even with the bad news, I felt better because the results were clear.

It always astonishes me when people do nothing. I simply couldn't sleep at night and I certainly couldn't look that cat in the eye. My tax return went on Nougat, for her radio-iodine treatment. It should have gone toward new crowns that I've been needing for years, but I'm quite mad just like all the other PT'ers.

I am glad that you are feeling better overall with Giz's prognosis.