Question about eating and drinking to urination and pee clumps!

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I know this isn't related to diabetes but I have a question regarding one of my cats. He is a neutered male cat and about 5 weeks or so ago he was hit on the road but through the good grace of God my dad seen him on the road and so I went out quickly as I could and brought him up to the house all covered in blood. I thankfully got him into a Vet. To make a long story short, he had to have surgery on his lower jaw because it was fractured in the middle but not a lot. He front and back left legs had nerve damage but he is walking fine on his front leg now but his back leg he wobbles on it as it bows out a bit. He has been on steroid pills for the inflammation and nerve damage of his legs and was also on an antibiotic. First was just amoxi tabs for the mouth but then he was making noises whenever he would try to pee so I took him in and they treated him for UTI with Clavamox. However all this time he still doesn't seem crazed about eating much dry and def wet food. He doesn't even seem to want to drink much water either but otherwise you look at him and he seems fine. The problem is each time I check the litter box out his pee clumps are not that big. They are about the size of walnuts. This was the same case before I got his medication for treatment of UTI. They did X-rays on him when he was being treated for being hit and the Vet never mentioned anything about crystals or anything like that in the X-rays. So with that said, Prednisone is supposed to cause increased thirst and appetite but for him it seems to work the exact opposite. I'm sure its not normal to not have big pee clumps either but he doesn't seem to whine like he used to either.
 
Get a 2nd opinion.
He may be partially obstructed, which could result in bladder rupture.
He could have neurologic impairment from the head injury and need manual expression of the bladder.
 
My non-diabetic pees about 4 walnut sized pee clumps per day and my diabetic (in remission) peas about 2 big pee clumps per day. Neither has any issues, guess they're just different.
 
I'd check with the vet in this case, given that it's a change from his usual behavior. It could be any number of things or absolutely nothing. My two cats pee very differently - I'm just glad everyone's peeing in the box at the moment. Diabetes-kitty was flooding the floor for a bit.
 
Yea the walnut size pee is where my Tiggy is at now. He acts like he is fine whines when he wants attention but other then that, he acts fine. He chooses to eat dry food versus wet and I wish it was different but that is just what he desires. He drinks and stuff but not as much as I'd hope. The Prednisone is supposed to cause increased thirst drive and appetite but he doesn't have those problems. He has the exact opposite, so is it possible that a cat can have opposite effects of being on a drug? Like instead of him having increased thirst drive and appetite he doesn't have either. Can that happen?
 
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