Originally posted by luckies4me
I am confused. Are you sure he is not going to get bad again? I mean several times you posted he was doing better, but then he got worse again.......can you just tell me it's all the way over so I can stop worrying?

So a cat can get pancreatis from eating baked beans? I have never heard such a thing lol. My cats used to eat baked beans all the time and they are fine. Sounds a little odd is all. Is it something in the beans? Seriously, I am really curious now! Did the vet tell you what exactly causes it? Does pancreatis go away? If not, did they give you meds for it?

I hope you find out what caused the fever. Has he been tested for FIV/FELV yet? I am sure he has, since you take such good care of them...........don't know why I even ask.
I posted that he was getting up and eating, but I never thought he was getting better really. I had some hope whenever he got up, but 5 minutes later, he'd always be back down in a lump on the floor again. He hasn't done that since we've been back from the vet. He's been eating and walking around and even running. And the whole time he's been sick, he has never put up such a big fight as he did tonight with the medicine. So I know he is better. He got all those injections that make fevers go away and he has a normal temp now. Thats why he's not lethargic anymore. Now since we dont know what caused the temp, there is a chance that it could come back, but the vet doesn't think it will. If it was caused by pancreatitis or a bacterial infection, the antibiotics will help that.

Most of the time, it is unknown how a cat got pancreatitis, but all 3 vets that Chance saw said that it can be caused by eating something they are not used to eating. I'm sure a lot of cats can be fine eating baked beans, but it just affected him like that for some reason.

Yup, he was tested for FIV/FELV way before I let him around my other cats.