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mobility issues and metacam on my cat
our cat is 6, when 1 year old, he fell and became somewhat paralyzed on one
side (mostly front).. after this happened, he was unable to get up or walk for about 1 week.. then without any intervention or pills began to walk.. though very heavily with front right leg quite numb, and back right leg making that exaggerated heavy circular movement when walking.. but anyway.. all seemed well.. he ran, jumped, did everything a normal cat would.. until one morning we wake up and he is unable to get up or walk.. this was about month ago.. took him to 2 vets.. they say.. stroke.. some say brain shock.. some say the month of november, weather etc.. all in all.. the cat is now kinda able to move his back legs.. the front right that was once numb, is now completely numb and in fact stuck in one position at all times.. like a piece of wood you cannot bend... the front left is better.. allowing him to move... so basically he has the front left which is okay.. the back left which is not bad.. and the back right which was also partially paralyzed when he was 1 year old. end result: when he gets up, he kinda has a hard time keeping balance.. and falls.. goes to liter though has good appetite etc.. now when last vet saw all this.. he said it's definitely some brain imblance.. causing him to lose balance and fall.. not necessarily the limbs.. cause cats on 3 legs do great after a week or so of adjusting.. though I think one of his back legs is still pretty bad.. so he's kinda like on two legs.. but anyway.. he said something else.. then gave him metacam to relieve inflammation which he thinks is somewhere in brain area.. got bottle of liquid oral metacam 10ml total... at 0.4ml per day.. for 10 days.. I gave him does one with syrynge to mouth directly... mixed with 1-2 ml of milk... because I said to myself if I spread it on food, he will never get the medicine.. day 2, did same thing.. day 3.. 15 minuts after giving it to him.. he vomitted and had dirahea.. this was about 24 hours ago... that 3 rd dose.. 12 hours after that, so this past morning called my vet, and told him about it.. he said stop metacam right away.. then I went to pickup a stomach coating liquid med called novo retaninad (if I remember name well).. and another anti vomitting (also liquid) med called metoclopromide.. I asked vet if I can just wait out a few hours, couple days for vomitting to pass.. he said better not.. cat might become dehydrated + no food.. so I went with the meds.. anyway.. he still vomitted today, before I got him the new meds... and had REAL bad water direhea just before I went to vet for meds.. I gave him so far one dose of the anti vomitting med... he did not eat much since, but did not vomit and no direhea.. anyway.. this is our story... the problem with mobility we initially tried to tackle, is now on hold because metacam did a bad job.. and now we're treating something that wasn't even there before metacam.. in fact the cat was doing much better before metacam than now.. if you read this, thanks a lot.. and we'd love to hear any input you may have on this! please remove spam protection from my email address before emailing me. many thanks ! |
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