Stephen Apruzzese
Member Since 2015
First post here, so I hope this comes with open arms...
My wife and I brought our 3 year old Bengal (Mary Jane) into the doctor the other day when we noticed that she wasn't really eating and seemed to be loosing some weight. After the vet took some blood work, it came back with elevated creatinine, phosphorus and bun levels. And I don't mean just a bit high. MJ's numbers had her creatanine about 11-13, bun well over 100 and phosphorus over 11. Well above the norms.
We've gotten over the point of trying to figure out WHY this all happened, since thats almost all it seemed the doctors wanted to find out more than anything (which is somewhat understandable).
MJ has always been a slightly larger cat and very strong, and seeing her like this is killing us. At this point is has been over 2 weeks now. Our Vet has graciously opened her practice to us and is keeping MJ there to try anything she could short of dialysis which we can't afford (given that might not even be a solution but a shot). MJ is eating, processing, but then again the vet is giving her sub-q fluids to try to see if she could get her kidneys going. She lost a tad more weight over the 2 weeks. Our Vet even says that MJ doesn't show signs that reflect her test results. Her quality of life right now isn't bad.... but then again how much could she really hide.
I have all of the test results from the "emergency 24 hour clinic" that we took her to and are just looking for any other pov from somebody who might have gone through a similar situation. Any doctor we spoke to outside of our primary did not have anything really positive to say, other than the brother of my uncle-in-law who said that sometimes... pets can amaze you (in aspect to recovering out of nowhere). But on a realistic side, even with fluids, a few months would be the most.
MJ seems happy, we go to visit her while she's at the vet and she purrs, rubs up against us and eats. But we always leave in tears.
Has anybody else here gone through this, or have some insight on something we could try? With levels like that, I don't know anything positive to look at in a medical POV.
Thank you so much for reading my post.
My wife and I brought our 3 year old Bengal (Mary Jane) into the doctor the other day when we noticed that she wasn't really eating and seemed to be loosing some weight. After the vet took some blood work, it came back with elevated creatinine, phosphorus and bun levels. And I don't mean just a bit high. MJ's numbers had her creatanine about 11-13, bun well over 100 and phosphorus over 11. Well above the norms.
We've gotten over the point of trying to figure out WHY this all happened, since thats almost all it seemed the doctors wanted to find out more than anything (which is somewhat understandable).
MJ has always been a slightly larger cat and very strong, and seeing her like this is killing us. At this point is has been over 2 weeks now. Our Vet has graciously opened her practice to us and is keeping MJ there to try anything she could short of dialysis which we can't afford (given that might not even be a solution but a shot). MJ is eating, processing, but then again the vet is giving her sub-q fluids to try to see if she could get her kidneys going. She lost a tad more weight over the 2 weeks. Our Vet even says that MJ doesn't show signs that reflect her test results. Her quality of life right now isn't bad.... but then again how much could she really hide.
I have all of the test results from the "emergency 24 hour clinic" that we took her to and are just looking for any other pov from somebody who might have gone through a similar situation. Any doctor we spoke to outside of our primary did not have anything really positive to say, other than the brother of my uncle-in-law who said that sometimes... pets can amaze you (in aspect to recovering out of nowhere). But on a realistic side, even with fluids, a few months would be the most.
MJ seems happy, we go to visit her while she's at the vet and she purrs, rubs up against us and eats. But we always leave in tears.
Has anybody else here gone through this, or have some insight on something we could try? With levels like that, I don't know anything positive to look at in a medical POV.
Thank you so much for reading my post.
so do read up on the site for ideas. Our Taz is doing well 2.5 years after diagnosis and a very bad initial run before we got it under control. SubQ fluids and meds can help them tremendously. Prayers your MaryJane's numbers come down!