I was going through some of the posts in this forum and noticed a lot of people talking about their cats having IBD. My little 10 year old orange guy, Ollie, has been suffering from this for a looooong time, probably forever. He's been on prednisolone daily for about two years now, plus he eats the Purina EN dry and canned food. This past November he dropped a ton of weight suddenly- was down to about 4.8 lbs- so we started him back up on weekly B-12 shots, metronidizale twice a day, and Forti-Flora sprinkled on his food along with continuing the daily prednisolone. He was starting to look better again after about a month- his appetite was back, the accidents were becoming less frequent, was back up to about 5.3 lbs (at his largest, Ollie was 8 lbs- but I haven't seen him that size in a good 4-5 years), until about two weeks ago. All of a sudden he's turning up his nose at his canned food, and when he does eat, he's vomitting it all up. We were at the vet for his B-12 shot last week and found out he's dropped weight again and is back down to right around 5 lbs. The vet decided it was time to run some bloodwork again and I'm still waiting for the results, I guess he thinks it could be hyperthyroid. But he's run the same tests at least twice before and it always comes back negative. They've checked for pancreatitis too, and that's been negative as well.
I'm just worried right now mostly about the not eating and the vomitting when he does. Poor little guy has got to get some food in him! Should I ask the vet about nausea? Is there something they can give him to help him stop vomitting so much? Just curious...
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Honestly though, his stool has looked better than it ever has. Right now his main issue is the weight loss and vomitting. Back in November the vet did want to run an ultrasound to check for colon cancer, but we decided to do a few rounds of all the meds and stuff first. And since he did improve for a while, I really don't think the issue something like that. Ollie's had a bad tummy since I first got him at 8 weeks old. He's been on and off meds his entire life, and I think sometimes he just has flare ups and feels yucky. But I'll see what the vet says when the results are in, and I'll definitely mention that he's having issues with eating and vomitting too. 
Ollie knew that you loved him very much and that you tried everything you could to help him. Now he's up at Rainbow Bridge running and playing and is painfree and healthy again. You'll meet again one find day. Please take care. (((HUGS)))
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