Storm Had To Go To The Vet-Storm's Been Diagnosed Latest Update 11-19-09

[krazyaboutkatz]

Hi everyone. Thanks again for all of your concerns and prayers. I still haven't received Storm's test results for his PLI test. My vet said that it was sent out to Texas so hopefully I'll get the results by the end of this week or early next week.

Storm was doing well until tonight. He's been very hungry lately but this morning I noticed that he didn't eat as much as he had been. When I got home tonight one of my cats had thrown up a hairball which isn't unusual. Storm seemed very hungry so I gave him 1/4 of a pepcid with part of a pill pocket like I have been doing. A little while later I fed him some canned food mixed with water. He didn't eat very much of it so I put the rest of it in the refrigerator.

Shortly after this Storm started crying like he was going to throw up. I know that cry too well. I put him in the kitchen and he threw up liquid with some food. He then started drinking some water and later he began chewing on some sisal rope. He then drank more water. I sure hope that he won't continue to throw up tonight. I also hope that I'll be able to get some sleep. I e-mailed my vet about this. Now I'm beginning to think that there's still something going on with him. He'll be fine for several days and then he'll have another vomiting episode. Please send some positive vibes his way. Thanks.

[5Cats]

That's terribly frightening! Sounds like you're taking great care of him. I hope this becomes resolved soon so Storm gets on the right track and has a quick and full recovery!

[ChrisH]

Tracey, I'm sorry to hear poor Storm is still getting ill.

I haven't posted in a while but I have been reading and will continue to keep him in my prayers and add positive and healing thoughts in there too.

{{big hugs}}

[krazyaboutkatz]

Thanks Chris and 5cats. Storm was able to eat a little bit of food last night before I went to bed and then he settled in for the night. I thought that everything would then be fine. He woke me up this morning a little before 6am and he was vomiting more liquid. He had also vomited up the food that he ate some time during the night.

I called Adobe but this time they don't have any open appointments so I have to go in as an urgent care case. Maybe an ultrasound will show more of what's going on with my big blue. I just want some kind of answers. I'm also going to ask about buying some more Cerenia to keep on hand because this saved me from another vet visit the last time. Please continue to send some positive vibes his way. Thanks.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Well I lucked out and I was able to get an appt. at 8:30am. I arrived a little after 8am and someone had cancelled their 8:30am appt. so Storm and I were able to be seen much quicker than I thought we would.

Storm weighs only 12.8lbs so he's still underweight but his temp. is normal. The vet felt some thickening in his intestional walls so he diagnosed him with IBD. He said he could also do an ultrasound but he'd still tell me to give him pred to see if this will help him. I decided against the ultrasound for now unless he's still having problems.

I have plenty of pred pills left over from my RB Starr so I'll be using these. I give Storm 10mg of pred in the morning for the next 3 days and then I start giving him 5mg on the 4th day. I have to e-mail this vet on the 4th day to let him know how Storm is doing and we'll go from there. He said it'll take about 1week before we know if the pred will help him or not.

He also mentioned about changing his diet to a novel protein like Venison and green pea. I told him that he's on a grain free diet and he said that he doesn't believe in that. He also doesn't like any of the Hills products which is interesting coming from a vet. Most of them swear by Hills. I have to continue to feed Pearl a grain free diet or she'll break out again so if I have to change Storm's diet then so be it. The others will continue to eat their Innova Evo. He also said that his PLI test came back normal so that's good. That's all for now.

[Prairie Purrs]

Poor Storm! I hope the pred helps him feel better. And I'm glad his PLI test was normal. Lots of healing thoughts (and purrs from my kitties) are headed his way.

[Killearn Kitties]

I'm sorry that Storm is still having such problems, and I really hope that the pred helps him.
Daisy sends extra-special purrs his way!

[columbine]

He also mentioned about changing his diet to a novel protein like Venison and green pea. I told him that he's on a grain free diet and he said that he doesn't believe in that.

That's confusing. "Doesn't believe in" a grain-free diet? Anyway, the venison & green pea, duck & green pea, etc. foods are grain-free anyway. Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance is a pretty easy brand to find, and there are chicken and salmon versions too.

Love, Columbine

[krazyaboutkatz]

That's confusing. "Doesn't believe in" a grain-free diet? Anyway, the venison & green pea, duck & green pea, etc. foods are grain-free anyway. Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance is a pretty easy brand to find, and there are chicken and salmon versions too.

Love, Columbine

I guess I should've asked him what brand of food he likes. I personally don't like Hills either but I do like grain free diets. My regular vet suggested Innova Evo to me. It's also helped Storm's urinary problems so I'd hate to change his diet drastically and then upset this.

Innova Evo also makes canned food in 95% Venison and Duck so I may try this for Storm because he needs to eat a lot of canned food. I don't want to make any changes just yet though because I want to make sure that the pred is going to help him first.

He was very hungry tonight and ate well. I hope that he'll have a nice peaceful night and that he'll be able to keep his food down. I also hope that he won't try to wake me up because he's hungry. Thanks again everyone for all of your concerns and well wishes.