Sophia Might Have Asthma *Vet Appt. Sat. or Next Week*

[Anikaca77]

The vets office called and had to cancel my appt. tonight but I'm getting Sophia in with my Sebastian and Apollo's appt. on Dec. 28th at 4:30 p.m. Osiris I'm going ot keep watching for right now but we'll see come Monday.

[Anikaca77]

We took Sophia, Sebastian, and Apollo to the vets on Dec. 27th or the 28th I think, and she looked over Sophia and her heart was beating so fast and Sophia was all worked up. She hasn't been to the vets for well over a year and I only had her at my vets just once and before that she had her eye removed at another vet.

She will be going in for a chest x-ray on Jan. 20th to see if she has asthma but the vet said it sounded like she did.

If she does she will go on meds but I'm not sure for how long.

Melissa

[krazyaboutkatz]

I hope that everything will go well for her on Jan.20th. I think if she has asthma that she'd have to be on meds for the rest of her life. Lots of prayers and positive thoughts are being sent her way. Please take care. (((HUGS)))

[Anikaca77]

This morning at 2 a.m. Sophia woke me up coughing like crazy. The poor girl went on forever it seemed.

She was in our bedroom with us and I got up and took her out to the living room to comfort her.

Poor thing. This was a bad one last night. I think I'm going to call the vets to see if we can move her appt. up so that way she can get started on some meds.

Melissa

[Anikaca77]

It's been a while since I updated this thread and we are still trying to help Sophia.

After Sophia had that huge coughing fit on Jan. 7th I was at the vets on Friday, Jan. 8th with Hermes and I was telling the vet about Sophia's coughing. Ellen is the main vet and the other vet I was seeing is Alice she's a new vet so she tends to go by the book and what not.

So I brought in a CD that had Sophia's coughing incase she wanted to listen to it and Ellen described what a cat with asthma will do and that's exactly what Sophia does so we decided at that point to start her on prednisone and so I started giving her 2 pills a day and then on Jan. 27th I went down to 1 pill a day and she started coughing 2 days after just doing 1 pill a day, I called the vets and they said do another 2 weeks of the pills at twice a day.

Last week she had a coughing fit in the morning shortley after I gave her the prednisone. I called the vets and the vet tech said just to see if she does it again and if she does I should schedule another vet appt.

So yesterday morning she coughed again. I called the vets and the vet tech scheduled Sophia for tomorrow morning but I'm thinking I'm going to call because the last time they said they were going to do an x-ray and bloodtest but she will need to be sedated for that because she gets super worked up before going to the vets and I don't want to take her to the vets just for a check up or something because that will stress her out.

Hopefully we can figure out something that will help her.

Melissa

[Snowhound]

Hi Melissa,

My cat Hansel had asthma when I lived in the UK. He was wheezing terribly and I thought he looked so sick he was about to die. Took him to the vet who gave him a steroid shot & some tablets & he was fine in a few days. Vet said the spring weather had triggered an asthma attack. Hansel was always a vibrant, healthy active cat so I knew something was definitely wrong with him. Now he's fine & back to normal & doesn't need on-going meds. Best of luck.

[Anikaca77]

Thank you for the information. They did a bloodtest and x-ray and found out that she does have asthma and the only thing we can do for her is try to get her on the lowest dose of pred. as possible.

Right now we are transferring her down to 1 pill a day and hopefully next week if all goes well this week we will attempt to take her down to 1 pill every other day and see how that goes for 2 weeks.

Melissa