Hello there, pettalkers!
It has been af while since our last visit to Pettalk, and right now I'm so happy to see that so many of you are still here that it feels like finding a family again. But this is also a very sad occasion for me and Bella. I am loosing her, and I dare not wait any longer for that last appointment at the vet. She is due to be put to sleep on thursday, but in case any of you have any last minute advice I could perhaps move the appointment to next week while I try out something else. I should have written before but the last two months have been horrible with vets that didn't know anything about hyperthyroidism and it has been af fight to find out as much as I could by myself. I have been too tired and nervous to think straight, and because I don't know any cat-people here it has been such a lonely quest. And it has been terribly expensive, and then it was Christmas and a blizzard hit DK, and transport got almost impossible here.It would be such a comfort to hear just a word or two, whether there is any advice or not.
In may, 2010 Bella was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and she was put on Felimazole (Thiamazole) 5 mg on a daily basis. She got so sick from the first 2 pills, that I immediately lowered the dose to 2.5 mg/day. The 2.5 mg did the trick, in the sense that all blood values were normal by the 3rd blood test. In the beginning it worked out fine, she calmed down, her huge appetite diminished, and her, eh, poop? got solid again. Only problem was that this development didn't stop! During the months of august and october her appetite got very little, and she would lie down and move very little, and then it got difficult for her to poop, because it was very dry. The vet had no advice to give, and I tried to lower the Felimazole dose once again, hoping that her inactivity was due to too much Felimazole. On december 1st, I finally changed the vet, the last straw being that he asked if I had tried to starve her, when I complained that she wouldn't eat or move! Some advice! The new vet made a new blood test, everything was fine, except the T4, which was too high because I had given her too little Felimazole. The dose was reset to 5 mgs and he also prescribed Noroclav (she had a slight fever) and he took x-rays that showed a little arthritis in the lower back, and for that he prescribed Metacam.
Then she got a terrible diarrhea from the antibiotic cure and lost 300grams in less than 3 weeks, and when she started on Metacam (orally) she stopped moving altogether. After consulting a third vet during a weekend where she was really bad, I stopped giving her Metacam. This is a month ago. The situation now is that she will not move, and she will not eat and she is down to 3300 grams of the 4000 grams she has weighed up until december 1st. I have tried all kinds of canned or dried food, the vet says its HAS to be industrial food, because its is the only food that works. But all I can get her to eat is a small amount of raw chicken or mincemeat, or shrimps. And she can't have shrimps because they are high in iodine. And I have to give her emulgated paraffinoil every other day for her bowels.
Before writing this I searched and found that some of you have been in a similar situation, and I also found a thread about Metacam, that made me really mad on my new vet! There are no warnings on the bottles here, and when I looked underneath the label he put on the box, the bottle turned out to be out of date when he sold it to me.I will talk to him about that, regardless of what happens to Bella.
But what I couldn't find was something about NeoMercazole. Do any of you have any experience with NeoMercazole which contains carbimazole instead of Felimazole which contains thiamazole? I have some, but I dare not change her medication at this point,unless I know more. I think she gets nauseated from Felimazole. Could it help if I divided her dose of 5 mgs so that she gets 2.5 mgs twice a day?
Oh, what a mess, this is. I hope you can help, but I know this is really the last call for Bella, and maybe I should rather let her go now before she gets worse?
Lots of love to you all at Pettalk!
Sus and Bella
And thank you Karen, for your help with password, etc.!
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I've never had a cat with this problem before so I don't have any advice to give you. Hopefully something can help her improve her appetite and health. Do you have any holistic vets in your area? If you do then maybe they could provide her with a more natural remedy. Lots of prayers and positive thoughts are being sent her way.
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