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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 27, 2014 0:57:52 GMT
Hello!
So... Carlotta started being sick lots again. Monday last week we took Carlotta to vets, she got blood taken for testing and two mystery jabs (vet won't tell me what for but I assume anti sickness). She was then fine until Wednesday when she puked again so the vet said to bring her back on Thursday.
On Thursday they told us she'd need a tooth op as one tooth was rotting badly and her fun was cut open in a probably long term wound. They then gave us anti sickness drops to put in her meals twice a day. This worked for a bit.
On Monday she had her tooth op and was fine that night, but yesterday she was sick again and today I came home from a dog walk to find loooads of cat vomit. She hadn't eaten since this morning but it was virtually undigested (as I keep telling the vets but they don't find that significant). It sounds bad but I hope Mieze was also sick as if not then Carlotta vomited her entire breakfast. The sick had all the same consistency though so I think it was all Carlotta.
We have another vet visit on Friday I think.
Any ideas would to do? I am in the process of changing to a more informative vet...
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Post by SarahHound on Mar 27, 2014 9:37:21 GMT
Maybe something else has upset her tummy that the vet didn't notice the first time round? Hope he can give her something on Friday to help her out, poor girl, it can't be nice being so sick so often  |
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 27, 2014 9:51:50 GMT
i wonder if the antibiotics injection could have caused her to be sick? She's not normally sick so much as she was last night. It's so frustrating! Poor Carlotta, she appears to be fine but then shes been sick so often since we got her that who knows what her personality would actually be like without it. We are changing vets soon too, hopefully the next one will make a thorough initial examination. This one seems to only check one thing each time we are there.
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Post by tonib on Mar 27, 2014 11:38:56 GMT
It is possible that the injection could cause sickness if she was allergic to that particular antibiotic, although of course it could be something else entirely. I must admit that if the food was more or less undigested after that length of time I would be a bit concerned, but then I'm very cautious when it comes to my cat's health. When Lexie had her op. last week without being starved beforehand, the vet said that it takes about 3 hours for food to pass through a cat's stomach. Thinking about it I wouldn't think that an allergy would cause her not to digest her food after that length of time.
Has Carlotta poo'd, in other words is any food going through her? If not I suppose there could be some form of blockage.
Has she eaten this morning?
I know that German isn't your native language , is there any chance the vet isn't understanding you properly (& vice versa)? I must admit that it sounds odd they won't tell you what the injections were & don't explain why they ignore the symptoms you describe. It does sound like another vet visit is on the cards. Perhaps you could ring your vet to ask whether to take her in earlier than Friday or whether to give her some more anti-nausea medcines (or is she still on them?)
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Post by ridley on Mar 27, 2014 12:15:31 GMT
Oh dear. I would put her on only dry, plain food (you can get some stuff from the vets) and keep her indoors. Then i would CHANGE VETS!!
Fancy not telling you when the injections were?!?!?! What the heck??!
Yep, change vets, keep an eye on her. make sure she is drinking and get her back to the vets in 48 hours if no improvement and sooner if she gets worse.
Good luck x
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 28, 2014 20:42:55 GMT
Good point about the poop, both cats use the same litter tray so I'm not sure. I'll maybe try splitting them up while I'm out tomorrow to see if there's any issues or watch Carlotta like a hawk and go for a peek after she's been in. I don't like to split them up too long as the two seem a lot happier near each other.
She seems totally fine apart from the vomiting, and she has vomited almost every meal for ages in the part and been fine so she must be digesting some. The cream in her food seems to help and she's not vomited today. It is usually undigested food and usually hours after feeding. I thought maybe it had something to do with her getting excited about eating (cats produce extra stomach acid when they anticipate eating, and then if not fed will vomit some bike up) but since it's undigested food (and usually one vomit of bile too) I can't understand it. She only eats at about 8 in the morning and then about 10 at night, and vomits just before the night feeding. It used to not be so big a gap in between (I.e, we'd sleep in), but I like to feed the cats before I go for a walk with Rosa in the morning. I think I'll try feeding earlier to see if that helps with the anticipation thing but I can't see it helping since as I say, it is undigested food.
We are in the process of finding a new vet so will hopefully get an appointment with one next week. I'm going to phone around and quiz them and look at reviews online first. I'm very lucky to live in such a large city full of pets in that I have a very varied choice of nearby vets so I'm sure I'll find my ideal one soon. One who has actually studied nutrition in depth for a start!
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 28, 2014 20:48:36 GMT
tonib my man was with me at the vets and speaks fantastic German. He corrects me when I'm wrong (as I've always lectured him on the situation on the way to the vets) and explains anything I don't understand so no translation problems, it seems as though most people don't ask questions and just let the vet do what they want haha! Well not me  ridley I can't feed dry I'm afraid as it makes both cats extremely sick. I think Mieze eats it too fast and vomits, and Carlotta is usually sick almost immediately after eating dry. When we first for her we fed dry and it was horrendous haha, we felt sure we were going to accidentally kill her through her vomiting! It's a thin line with wet food too which is why we wanna feed raw, it's kind of a last resort really.
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Post by vonnie on Mar 31, 2014 17:24:21 GMT
Think it is definitely worth seeking a vet who actually tells you stuff. My thought is one of the jabs is Cerenia, or similar which is anti sickness injection. May not seem like much but what about trying 3 or 4 meals instead? Thus 2 big meals are split into smaller portions which is a more natural way of eating for a cat. My parents cat used to vomit after meals because she ate too quick. Reducing meal sizes helped a lot. My girls get 4 meals. One when we get up, next before we leave for work (or at lunch time if I am in). Then 3rd meal when I get in from work (5.30-7pm) and then the remainder which is a very small portion, at bedtime. They mostly eat dry food too with occasional wet to keep their water levels good (Elsa tends to have dryer poops so I want to avoid any constipation but they thrive on the dry and their teeth and coats are amazing). It's worth a trial anyway, might save you some Vet pennies!  The vet may wish to perform xrays or even and endoscope if the vomiting continues to long, but again I would try and find a good one who will talk to you! Try and find out what the jabs are at least and message me. If I don't know them outright then I can find out for you! Hope the little lady feel better soon. |
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Post by smilesbetter on Mar 31, 2014 18:27:11 GMT
Thanks vonnie she's not been too bad this weekend, although weirdly she's started getting dark stuff coming from her eyes which I've never seen before (she's white with pale pink skin so very noticeable). Will try feeding her at the dogs three feeding times and see if it improves at all. Still on the hunt for a new vet but I've found one that might be promising at least. |
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Post by heartpawprints on Apr 3, 2014 19:51:45 GMT
One of mine did this. Is it a recent thing? With Rory they gave him steroid pills but it ultimately turned out to be an unusual cancer for his age group. Get a new vet, that one sounds awful and bloody useless.
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Post by smilesbetter on Apr 3, 2014 21:45:00 GMT
She's vomited regularly since we got her last summer, but we put it down to never getting the right food for her sensitive stomach as that's what the vet said. Now we've done lengthy trails of practically everything on the market here and still vomiting about once a week. That is, until she got this medicine from the vets, now her vomit has changed to a thick brown liquid (previously was completely undigested food about 10 - 12 hours after eating) and is much less often.
Have asked the vet about Carlotta's sickness loads and only ever been told to change her food and that the vomiting undigested food was nothing of interest. Feel a bit stupid for believing it, and I've always believed that if I don't trust the vet I should change immediately. In the process of finding a good one now.
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Post by heartpawprints on Apr 4, 2014 12:17:49 GMT
Well we all put our trust in vets. I took one of mine with sudden bout if vomiting, vet gave her a jab. I'd said about her being photo sensitive but that was ignored. Sadly it was anti freeze poisoning and I'll say till my dying day that if she'd have been put on a drip there and then she'd have beaten the odds as she held on for 3 days. It was a locum vet and I will never see her again as I have no faith in her.
Hope all works out. It won't be very nice for your little puddy either.
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Post by migsy on Apr 4, 2014 13:11:56 GMT
It's horrible when you are fobbed off by a vet,and made to think you are fussing,we know our own pet.Go with your intincts and change,a thing we learned to our and B.C.puppys cost years ago,we wished so much we had found our present vets.As heartpawprints says,you never forget such things.We have every trust in each one of the vets in the practise we have used for our last 3 dogs.My daughters dogs life was saved by them during a stay with us when she was very ill and not expected to pull through.
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Post by tonib on Apr 4, 2014 22:50:09 GMT
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Post by smilesbetter on Apr 5, 2014 6:33:46 GMT
Aww sorry to hear about your cat heartpawprints and puppy migsyThink I've found a good local vets in Berlin, yet to "interview" them but I shall when I get back to Berlin next week. I know it sounds a bit over the top, but I have loved animals my entire life and my pets have always meant nothing less than the world to me (and I care almost as much for other people's animals!!), a good vet is more important to me than a good doctor or even dentist (and mines needs to be amazing as I'm a wimp haha). I don't mind even going to different vets for different pets if one happens to be more of a cat specialist etc. |
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