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This was George yesterday, 4.67 kg. He used to be around 7kg.

I'm sorry to hear this, I know my vet doesn't like to get thyroid levels too under control when there are kidney issues, as the high blood pressure helps the kidneys. I disagree with SDMA not being reliable, it has been used for a few years now and as George's tests showed, picks it up before the c...

Sorry for your bad news, one of these is hard to take let alone both at once. Unfortunately hyperthyroidism masking kidney failure is one of the big issues about it. Although your George is right on the age bracket for HT he is a little young for advance kidney failure, which isn't a very encouragi...

Hi Everyone, So recently my 12 year old cat George had been losing weight, eating more and vocalising a lot. I took him to the vet to do a blood test, and it turns out that he has hyperthyroidism(t4 level of 195) and elevated SDMA(22) which is apparently an early indicator of CKD. His creatanine lev...