Moms2Tigger&Blu
Member Since 2018
http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/7-25-tigger-amps-171-pmps-411-vet-appt-went-ok.217325/
It's been a few days since I posted - we are still a little shook at how rapidly Tigger's CKD seems to be worsening. The IM vet called and said the blood work results came back with a creatinine level of 3.5 so Tig is definitely stage 3. She does not want to change anything yet because as of that visit he seemed to be doing well. We will proceed with Cerenia daily. We will feed him whatever he wants from the list of food I compiled from all the suggestions from members on here (under 200 phos). We will sched the ultrasound sometime in the next 2 weeks and repeat a renal panel again in about 4 months. That all sounds fine and on Friday I still felt optimistic as Tigger was eating like a pig.
However yesterday and today it is a different story. The boy won't eat. Or more accurately he won't eat on his own. He is leaving full bowls to waste but if we pick it up and put it near him he starts to purr and eat frantically for a few seconds. Then he stops and walks away. It's been like this for 3 meals now. We've given in and opened his favourite shreds and the same thing. I'm struggling to get enough carbs into him for this nice surf he's attempting, but longterm we need to keep his calories up too. And I can't be here to remind him to eat hourly every day of the week. Can inappetence occur this quickly?
He has not vomited at all, he is drinking ok, his ketones are nothing, even though he had a high bounce yesterday. I though hopefully he would eat better today when I saw that AMPS cause he's usually ravenous when he's low but nope. He still wants to carry around his muppet, play with his catnip and toys, and sleep in my arms all night . . . but this appetite thing is throwing me. He has always been picky but never this way for this many meals in a row.
I have several emails in to the vet but I feel helpless.
It's been a few days since I posted - we are still a little shook at how rapidly Tigger's CKD seems to be worsening. The IM vet called and said the blood work results came back with a creatinine level of 3.5 so Tig is definitely stage 3. She does not want to change anything yet because as of that visit he seemed to be doing well. We will proceed with Cerenia daily. We will feed him whatever he wants from the list of food I compiled from all the suggestions from members on here (under 200 phos). We will sched the ultrasound sometime in the next 2 weeks and repeat a renal panel again in about 4 months. That all sounds fine and on Friday I still felt optimistic as Tigger was eating like a pig.
However yesterday and today it is a different story. The boy won't eat. Or more accurately he won't eat on his own. He is leaving full bowls to waste but if we pick it up and put it near him he starts to purr and eat frantically for a few seconds. Then he stops and walks away. It's been like this for 3 meals now. We've given in and opened his favourite shreds and the same thing. I'm struggling to get enough carbs into him for this nice surf he's attempting, but longterm we need to keep his calories up too. And I can't be here to remind him to eat hourly every day of the week. Can inappetence occur this quickly?
He has not vomited at all, he is drinking ok, his ketones are nothing, even though he had a high bounce yesterday. I though hopefully he would eat better today when I saw that AMPS cause he's usually ravenous when he's low but nope. He still wants to carry around his muppet, play with his catnip and toys, and sleep in my arms all night . . . but this appetite thing is throwing me. He has always been picky but never this way for this many meals in a row.
I have several emails in to the vet but I feel helpless.
Great news.
