+10 339
AMPS 369 .5U (at +11)
+6 222
So I assume it is going up and am thinking of increase for tonight. I will post tonight (probably 8-8:30 pm my time) and try to wait for any responses before I shoot. Perhaps .8? or if she is not eating much .7? (Gator I believe you suggested going up by .2increments and a little more if she is high and eating).
She ate some this morning, but I don't believe she has eaten since (it is now after 1PM). She has spent the last 2 days on the couch under a blanket. I only gave her half a pill this morning (7.5mg) because I was wondering if the whole pill (15 mg) was a factor in her staying on the couch under the blanket all day. Doesn't seem to be any different with the half pill. I am going to try to give her the other half soon. Her mouth symptoms have been worse, tho not entirely preventing her from eating. It is very difficult not to have any way to asses her pain.
Lori, I do not believe her prognosis is good. There is a name for her symptoms (feline orofacial pain syndrome) which they think is caused by an inflammation of the trigeminal nerve (excruciating in humans). But we do not know what caused it. Perhaps dental issues. And there is no known cure. The pills are anti-epileptic medicine, which is supposed to reduce the pain by interrupting the nerve transmission (I think).
And it is definitely not getting better at present. I don't know just who saw it, but last week(?) I accidentally put a candle on one of my posts. It was entirely accidental, but perhaps a "Freudian slip"? When my children were little, I used to know they were sick about a day before any symptoms appeared. And when my mother had Alzheimer's, I knew years before the diagnosis. I took her to a top geriatric neurologist who told me there was nothing wrong! Unfortunately, I proved to be right. I think the same thing is happening here. It is hard to tell, because the meds could be doing strange things. But she is moving very slowly (or not at all) and sometimes just sits or stands there , looking like she is staring at something---but who knows what. And she can stay like that for several minutes. This may be a form of epilepsy ("absences")---she did have that full blown seizure a few weeks ago---or maybe not, but it seems like things are wrong that we just don't really know about. It pains me to write this, and I truly hope I am wrong, but it doesn't seem like good times ahead.
- so read again.