Quote Originally Posted by catnapper View Post
Sorry about not being accurate about pred -- prednisone. He's been on and off it since spring. We've been trying to figure out his problem for over 6 months now.

My sweet little boy acts normal. He plays, he eats, he sleeps. Never cranky, but he'll tell you when he wants to be alone (his loook should have killed me by now -- such evil gaze saying "Lady, let me ALONE!") He's just running around all day, every day, with a raging blood/bacterial infection that has 3 different vets stumped.
I know your pain, off and on Tinkerbelle had mysterious illnesses as well. However all of her bloodwork was normal, excellent in fact for a cat her agel..I went through four vets until I found one I could work with, he was vigilant, always there for us, never hesitated to come to the phone in emergencies, saw her always as soon as I could get her there.

Sadly, nothing was ever conclusive, and in addition to the prednisolone, she was on specific vitamins, B12 shots, azythromycin, and intermittently Baytril. Outside of these 'spells' she was stellar as you describe Mystic...but whenever 'it' kicked in, all hell broke loose.

When it got to the point where it was critical, even more tests were done and again nothing showed. I was referred to a high tech veterinary clinic where they wanted to do $5000. worth of tests which, would only gain me a diagnosis, and not a cure, so I opted to let her tell me when it was time,..and she did.

So it was always a mystery, chasing a diagnosis that never came through science..but not for the lack of trying.

I do hope you have much better luck with your baby, he has a lot of life ahead of him and that will save you a ton of heartache.

Best of luck.