Weak rear legs~!
Have a cat only 3 years old! It could never jump real good! Last
week, I came out to its outside pen and found it sitting on the ground! The Vet said the joints on its rear legs pop out! The Vet gave me some pain medicine and said the cat probably had overdone it! The cat has good days and bad days! Seems not to be related to pain medicine! The Vet said I could go to a specialist! Anyone out there have any experience with this? |
Weak rear legs~!
"chatnoir" wrote in message ... Have a cat only 3 years old! It could never jump real good! Last week, I came out to its outside pen and found it sitting on the ground! The Vet said the joints on its rear legs pop out! Could be Patellar Luxation -- the kneecap pops out of the groove it rides in and gets stuck on one side. There are 4 grades of severity. Did your vet grade the luxation? The Vet gave me some pain medicine and said the cat probably had overdone it! The cat has good days and bad days! Seems not to be related to pain medicine! The Vet said I could go to a specialist! Anyone out there have any experience with this? Gotta get it fixed. Later in life the degenerative changes caused by the patellar luxation will precipitate into lameness. Phil |
Weak rear legs~!
Suddenly, without warning, Phil P. exclaimed (7/5/2009 3:27 AM):
"chatnoir" wrote in message ... Have a cat only 3 years old! It could never jump real good! Last week, I came out to its outside pen and found it sitting on the ground! The Vet said the joints on its rear legs pop out! Could be Patellar Luxation -- the kneecap pops out of the groove it rides in and gets stuck on one side. There are 4 grades of severity. Did your vet grade the luxation? The Vet gave me some pain medicine and said the cat probably had overdone it! The cat has good days and bad days! Seems not to be related to pain medicine! The Vet said I could go to a specialist! Anyone out there have any experience with this? Gotta get it fixed. Later in life the degenerative changes caused by the patellar luxation will precipitate into lameness. Phil That's the first thing I thought too, Phil. It's pretty rare in cats, but mine has it and she's never been a good jumper either. I found out recently she's essentially deformed in her hind end, the vertebrae right over her pelvis is deformed, and the bones of her hind legs are not straight (I knew about the leg bones, but not the spine). As far as guaranteed lameness as they get older, I think it depends on the grade. Meep has luxating patellas in both hind legs. Was not graded for me, but I'd say maybe grade 1.5. I believe she's had the problem since birth but wasn't diagnosed till she jumped in fright and landed badly, and was lame. I didn't know to look for symptoms before then. That was around 2003 I think. She recovered, and because I was told she'd have to be cage-confined for two months, the mildness of her symptoms, and her likely reaction to such a long confinement, I chose not to have the operation done. Oh, and at the time I thought she had a cardiomyopathy. Found out recently she was misdiagnosed. Woohoo! She's locked completely only a couple of times (and only in one leg), and comes to me for help when it happens (I have a technique that works quite well to unlock the kneecap apparently painlessly). When it happens she's lame, when I fix it, she's sound. She's 13 now and while she is showing degenerative changes (arthritis) she is not lame and still gets around well. Based on the results of recent x-rays rather than any outward symptoms, she is now is now being treated with a painkiller, since glucosamine chonodroitin could delay onset of arthritis but not prevent it, sadly. She has arthritis in a couple of her rear joints, not just the "knees". If Meep had been only 3 when she was diagnosed, I think I'd have been much more likely to have consented to the operation. jmc |
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