Hi! My name is Lana & i have a 2.5 y.o. cornish rex cat. I got him from breeder & he sneezed & coughed since the day one. It gets better or worse from time to time, but he feels really bad lately. He used to be very energetic cat. Now he acts more like an old kittie. Sits on the window all day with his eyes closed. I got a new cornish rex kitten recently from the same breeder. He was very interested in her at first, they played together a lot. Now he doesn't know how to get rid of her. Not because he doesn't want to play but because he is really sick & weak. First he had watery eyes & i started to notice that probably like 3-4 month ago before i got new kitten but it wasn't bad, just like 1-2 times a week. Now He's got this yellow discharge coming from his eyes, sneezes all over like 30-40 times a day (it's yellow, sometimes even kind of reddish in color, i think there might be blood in it), he is shaking sometimes & seems dehydrated to me. He eats & drinks though. It's been like that for about a month now. He never had eye discharge before. This morning this yellow discharge was just streaming from his eyes dripping down. Its watery so it doesn't clog his eyes. Eyes are pink. When i first got him 2 years ago i started to worry about him sneezing & coughing so my vet did x-rays on his chest, some tests but didn't find anything suspicious. He said next step would be biopsy to check for cancer. I didn't do this test though. Back then we tried different antibiotics treating URI i guess. He would feel little better but sneezing always came back eventually. He also caught ones i a while. We did allergy shot ones which seemed to help back then & took care of most sneezing for like 2 weeks. This time i took him to different vet who gave him antibiotics again. After finishing the course Tima felt the same way. Became little more active though. I also treated him with eyes Ointment that vet gave me. Vet suggested to do x-rays & blood work again but i'm afraid it won't show anything as it didn't before.
On monday he gave him allergy shot (steroid) cuz we thought that might be an issue again. Tima got little more active the next day but now he's all back to the same condition...It really hurts for me to see him suffer like that but no one seem to be able to help me figure out what is wrong with Tima & how can i ease his pain...he gets worse day by day. He is an indoor cat but new kitten seems to be in a perfect health. They are in constant contact.
Please help me cure him, or if you can suggest some kind of test that can help finding the cause of problem i would really appreciate it! He's got skinnier & his fur is not shiny as it used to be. He looks very sick now. I can e-mail you some pictures if you need them, just let me know! I did some on-line research & i'm totally confused now. Cat herpes, URI, asthma, allergy...all has same symptoms i can see...i don't even know what kind of tests needs to be done...Please help! Thank you in advance!!!
Lana
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