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Kay, thanks for posting here
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JulieJulie, Your wonderful post moved me to tears, indeed! I rarely have read a more beautiful post. I'm so sorry that you had to experience the same kind of nightmare as me with your sweet cat and I do feel each of your wrds like mine, it's like I had lived your terrible days. I fully understand yo...

I have read the whole thread and it's amazing the level of care you are giving Lucy. I'm very glad that the operation went well, hopefully she'll have some relief now. Don't worry too much about kidney failure, though. My cat Lola has been having CKD for 11 years without any real trouble. We just wo...

I know my neighbour was told it only needed to be used once a day, and to alternate her ears, if you are using both that could explain why it isn't working because its being spread too far. Are you using gloves when you administer it? As its transdermal, it can enter your bloodstream as well - we e...

Sorry to hear you are struggling to get her hyper-t under control - now she is an only cat, you could try the hyper-t diet, can't remember it's name, but it has been discussed on here recently. My neighbours cat had the transdermal gel, it is only designed to be given once a day, but because she ha...

Hi Antonio, I’ve had four cats with hyperthyroidism although none treated with 1-131 so I can’t advise on that, unfortunately. The first two cats we had from kittens became hyperthyroid later in life and were given Carbimazole, at the time I was also hyperthyroid taking Carbimazole so there was onl...

So sorry to hear of your loss too Antonio. I had hoped she was still going strong with the amount of care that you gave her. I too keep seeing my boy everywhere. When I leave the back door open when cooking or washing up, from the corner of my eye I see a big shadow walk in but when I turn to look ...

This is Pallina, female, 16 years old. Pallina2011r.JPG I found her on a freezing cold day of January in 2002. I brought her home and my intention was to find her a good home. But nobody showed up to adopt her so she stayed with us. According to the vet she was about 8 months old, so we picked May 3...

Thanks, Alice!

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My cat Lola was diagnosed with CKD at the age of 6 and died at the age of nearly 17 from a totally different problem. Till the end her kidneys were alright and creatinine and BUN were inside their ranges or just borderline. We followed the vet's instructions for her whole life, that is Renal food, s...

What a beautiful lady! A 'naughty tortie' - might have known. They're feisty. Like my lovely Tess, who I lost to the road and still mourn 10 years later. I wore her collar as a bracelet for weeks. On here, honestly, you're not alone. I thought I was going half-daft after Tess died. The other cats w...

It happened to me several times, bites from my cats or feral cats. My hand got swollen, tight, very warm and reddish, not to mention the pain that at times could be unbearable. I never used any medication on me because my very personal opinion is that my body has to fight on its own. Generally after...

This was my beautiful Lola when she was still very fine. This photo in was taken in August 2015, a few months before she started feeling bad due to her adrenal gland gone crazy. Since then she had kind of a little sadder look. The grey spot on her tiny face was the result of the first radiation ther...

Vanilla, I'm so sorry to read this. I have been through the same terrible decision only a week ago, I know exactly how you are feeling. But know that you did the right thing for him, just as I know I have done the right thing for my Lola. I have no regrets, there was no more time for her. I know tha...

Thanks everybody for your words of support, they helped me a lot through this terrible moment. I am still crying if I look at a photo of her, I still can't believe it is true. Sometimes I think she's just away from home for one of the treatments at the clinic. She spent so many nights away from home...

Hi Vanilla, hi everybody! Sorry for not updating this thread lately, but my days have been frantic and busy. I couldn't even find the time to have my breakfasts and lunches. A couple of days after my last post on this thread Lola had another bleeding from her mouth during the night. On a morning I f...

Sorry to read of your little friend being sick. When my elder cat was very very young she had several episodes of bad coughing. She was playing or eating or doing nothing and all of a sudden she would take a hunched position, she starting coughing with her tongue stuck out and dark purple in colour....

PS- re the phosphorus binders. There was another binder on the market, which I found that some cats refused to eat food with it mixed in. It was called Renalzin and the active ingredient was Lanthanum, which is supposed to be more effective at binding phosphorus I bought it many years ago. It had a...

In my opinion and from my point of view you should wait at least the 72 hours. Cats have recovery abilities beyond imagination and he could surprise you and the vets. You wrote that "creantine" was at 1100. Were you meaning "creatinine"? And if so, are you sure of the value? Beca...

When my elder cat was diagnosed with CKD in 2006 we began this new renal diet but we had to try some different brands. The one she liked the most was Royal Canin Renal pouches Tuna. This was until I was advised with Trovet Renal chicken. There had been no turning back from this and the dry food of t...

Lilith, the last two days have been great for Lola. Yesterday she spent a long time outside basking in the sun or exploring the backyard. I nearly had some hard time having her back inside :D Today it was a little colder but nonetheless she stayed outside for some time. She seems full of life and it...

Today Lola is still rather fine and alert. She keeps taking food from the syringe in a good mood, she doesn't fight and I think she's quite happy afterwards. The weather is improving a lot over here, today we have +20°C, it feels like full spring. Lola and her friend Pallina took a short walk in the...

I started giving them supermarket brands, but after one year of this kind of food I went for something more expensive because I thought that a higher price would return a higher quality and not always it's this way. Shortly before my cat Lola was diagnosed with CKD I used to fed them with Almo Natur...

My cat was given an iron supplement for months since last April. It made no difference in her blood works even after 4 months. It was a pill for human treatments, but I would give her 1/4 pill twice a day. They told me that several months of treatment are necessary to see some results, if any. But s...

Fingers crossed she is happier tomorrow, shame you don't have a supportive vet to run the bleeding by, as it is a worrying symptom You're right, Booktigger, but I could report the thing to a vet as soon as possible. It is surely an important symptom, something worrying has happened inside her mouth...

So glad to hear she picked up, even if she did give you a fright with the blood clot. I can't give any advise, it isn't anything I really know about, all I can say is that what you are doing for her is incredible, and as long as her good times outweigh the bad then it is worth it. Please keep us up...

Wow. She's a fighter and no mistake. That blood clot must have been terrifying, good on you for dealing with it. But if the smell's gone and the signs of necrosis are going, can this really be necrosis? Necrotic tissue doesn't heal, it spreads, which is why I felt the prognosis was so gloomy (sorry...

Lilith, thanks for your kind thoughts! In the last days Lola is doing great. At the end of the past month/beginning of March Lola went through a two-day long bad moment and I fell into desperation again. After that she recovered well. On past Sunday she was in very good shape, if it wasn't for the s...

My cat Lola has been diagnosed FIV+ at the end of April last year, she was nearly 16 yo and had been with us and the other cat for her entire life. We didn't know she was FIV+, as a matter of fact we were sure she was negative because the test we had had many years before told us that. The two cats ...