Mandy S
Member Since 2020
Hello everyone...we haven't been on the board since end of last year. Sissy had been doing really well.
Plugging along, dealing with her food pickiness but overall fine. Back of Feb 7th I noticed she wasn't acting right. Just seemed way off and I got the monitor and tested her sugar...she was a lot higher than she'd been running. She also wasn't wanting to eat...but that's normal for her. I decided to give it a day before starting any of her support meds. The next day her sugar was still high for her...and she hadn't eaten at all, so I got the cyproheptadine and gave her the dose. She fought it, got it on her tongue and then puked everywhere....and she puked up a big wad of the netting from an onion bag! I called the vet because now I knew why she wasn't eating and why her sugar was off. They said to monitor her, told me what to look for and that night her sugar was back down and she did eat a bit...and she was pooping, no sign of anything. Her appetite was slow to come back, so we started support meds...and it did come back to almost normal, but not quite...and then it went back down again...sort of coming and going. Some days she just flat out would not eat, so she got syringe fed baby food. We've seen the vet a few times and tried mirataz, but now she's having some side effects whenever she has that...she paces endlessly and howls and does some posturing as if she were in heat. Stop the Miritaz and all that goes away. It doesn't work anyway...she's still on the zofran and cyproheptadine now and she's eating the bare minimum.
The last time we were at the vet last week he was saying how the hair on her belly has never grown back from her ultrasound in November. The tech said they see that in some cats with cushings....now Sissy does have a pot belly, and she has fur that isn't growing back there....but she doesn't really have any other signs of cushings. And a hallmark of that is hard to control sugars they say, and she's not had any insulin now for a couple weeks I believe. The vet said to trial her off of it because getting her to eat enough to shoot was just too much. Months ago I mentioned a little tick...almost like a parkinson like head bob...that she'd do randomly. NOW it's not just her head...it's her whole body, a leg, a foot her entire body just random jumps and jerks. I've tried to get it on video to show the vet this weekend, and I did get some. It's just hard to see on video. When I called they talked about hospitalizing her, but I think that will stress her out so much. Right now she's eating, even though it's not much, and she's drinking and using the box....she comes out a few times a day and wants me to snuggle her...but she's so restless. She doesn't stay long.
I really don't know what to do next if anything. She has that enlarged adrenal gland, but all of her bloodwork has been normal except for a very slight, like one point, elevation in kidney numbers... her urinalysis last week was fine. I'd like some ideas of things to talk to the vet about when I see them this weekend. I don't get to see her regular vet, it's the partner...our entire vet clinic was closed because of Covid infections. So I get who I get. I just don't know what to do for her to make her feel better. I don't know what to make of her jerks and ticks. When we're at the vet she's all alert and on the prowl all around the room and they've never seen what I'm talking about. The other night she was asleep on my daughter's bed and she messaged me and said that she could feel the bed move because of Sissy's jerking. That just isn't normal.
I know this is long and It's late so I know I've left info out, but if anyone has any ideas, my ears are wide open!
Plugging along, dealing with her food pickiness but overall fine. Back of Feb 7th I noticed she wasn't acting right. Just seemed way off and I got the monitor and tested her sugar...she was a lot higher than she'd been running. She also wasn't wanting to eat...but that's normal for her. I decided to give it a day before starting any of her support meds. The next day her sugar was still high for her...and she hadn't eaten at all, so I got the cyproheptadine and gave her the dose. She fought it, got it on her tongue and then puked everywhere....and she puked up a big wad of the netting from an onion bag! I called the vet because now I knew why she wasn't eating and why her sugar was off. They said to monitor her, told me what to look for and that night her sugar was back down and she did eat a bit...and she was pooping, no sign of anything. Her appetite was slow to come back, so we started support meds...and it did come back to almost normal, but not quite...and then it went back down again...sort of coming and going. Some days she just flat out would not eat, so she got syringe fed baby food. We've seen the vet a few times and tried mirataz, but now she's having some side effects whenever she has that...she paces endlessly and howls and does some posturing as if she were in heat. Stop the Miritaz and all that goes away. It doesn't work anyway...she's still on the zofran and cyproheptadine now and she's eating the bare minimum.
The last time we were at the vet last week he was saying how the hair on her belly has never grown back from her ultrasound in November. The tech said they see that in some cats with cushings....now Sissy does have a pot belly, and she has fur that isn't growing back there....but she doesn't really have any other signs of cushings. And a hallmark of that is hard to control sugars they say, and she's not had any insulin now for a couple weeks I believe. The vet said to trial her off of it because getting her to eat enough to shoot was just too much. Months ago I mentioned a little tick...almost like a parkinson like head bob...that she'd do randomly. NOW it's not just her head...it's her whole body, a leg, a foot her entire body just random jumps and jerks. I've tried to get it on video to show the vet this weekend, and I did get some. It's just hard to see on video. When I called they talked about hospitalizing her, but I think that will stress her out so much. Right now she's eating, even though it's not much, and she's drinking and using the box....she comes out a few times a day and wants me to snuggle her...but she's so restless. She doesn't stay long.
I really don't know what to do next if anything. She has that enlarged adrenal gland, but all of her bloodwork has been normal except for a very slight, like one point, elevation in kidney numbers... her urinalysis last week was fine. I'd like some ideas of things to talk to the vet about when I see them this weekend. I don't get to see her regular vet, it's the partner...our entire vet clinic was closed because of Covid infections. So I get who I get. I just don't know what to do for her to make her feel better. I don't know what to make of her jerks and ticks. When we're at the vet she's all alert and on the prowl all around the room and they've never seen what I'm talking about. The other night she was asleep on my daughter's bed and she messaged me and said that she could feel the bed move because of Sissy's jerking. That just isn't normal.
I know this is long and It's late so I know I've left info out, but if anyone has any ideas, my ears are wide open!
