Latest Update 12-9-09 Storm's Been Diagnosed & Sunny's Biopsy Results

[Moesha]

My vet gave Morgan a pain medicine called Torb or something like that after his tumor was removed. It is a narcotic. Then when he was still having trouble eating, they gave him some Metacam, even though it isn't usually given to cats due to other side effects, like the liver problems. We tried it with Morgan because we were dealing with a cancer patient, and thought that the benefits outweighed the possible risks at that point.

[Medusa]

My vet gave Morgan a pain medicine called Torb or something like that after his tumor was removed. It is a narcotic. Then when he was still having trouble eating, they gave him some Metacam, even though it isn't usually given to cats due to other side effects, like the liver problems. We tried it with Morgan because we were dealing with a cancer patient, and thought that the benefits outweighed the possible risks at that point.

Yes, my Puddy was on that drug; it's called Torbutrol and it's very effective for pain management but it did make her quite uncoordinated and out of it. She had to be isolated b/c she wasn't allowed to be near stairs or in any danger of falling and getting hurt.

[jennielynn1970]

Oh Tracey, I'm so sorry to be reading all of this now. I hardly ever venture over to the health section (it gets me all teary eyed at work), but I wish I would have seen this earlier.

I'll be keeping you, Storm, and especially Sunny, in my thoughts and prayers. I hope that everything will work out ok for Sunny, that poor sweet boy.

Hugs to you and all your fur kids.

[smokey the elder]

I googled feline cancer and there were some links about treatment (clinical trials) of oral squamous cell carcinoma. For example there is research at the University of Pennsylvania vet school: http://www.vet.upenn.edu/

[wolf_Q]

I'm very sorry to hear this. I hope you will have as much time as possible with Sunny. Sending good vibes to Sunny, Storm, and you. {{HUGS}}

[katladyd]

I am sending up prayers for all of you. I would try the transfer factor, it sure couldn't hurt and there have been some amazing results from it. Hang in there, we all care very much!

[krazyaboutkatz]

Thanks everyone. Sunny's having a good day today. He was very hungry this morning and I'll be feeding him some more canned food in a few minutes. Pearl has taken over the howling at night routine and it's driving me crazy. She's also still being very nasty towards Sunny. Ziggy is being a bit nicer towards him today.

I also got some very good news from my vet about Storm's prognosis. I asked her a few questions about the pred and Folic Acid supplements and this is what her response was:

We will carefully wean Storm off of the pred over a period of months. He may need some level of pred life long, but we will attempt to wean it down to the lowest effective dose.


I usually give the folic acid for 6 weeks and try to get the underlying disorder under control (with the pred). Hopefully by then he will be stabilized, which means his intestine is working normally again, which theoretically means he does not need to be supplemented further because his intestine can absorb it normally again. So, if he is not vomting and acting normal in 6 weeks, we may just stop and not necessairaly retest. We will see how it goes.

Hopefully his intestine will start working normally again and he won't vomit any more. So far so good but he's a mighty hungry boy these days.