A cat forum. CatBanter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » CatBanter forum » Cat Newsgroups » Cat health & behaviour
Site Map Home Register Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

more on Hyperthyroid cat



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old November 9th 06, 10:43 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
[email protected]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 10
Default more on Hyperthyroid cat

We had more lab work done and it came back possitive on the hyperthyroidism.
Willie is on the meds.
I'm having a really hard time posting to this newsgroup with my news rover
so I'll keep it short.
Jean
  #2  
Old November 9th 06, 11:01 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
cybercat
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 4,212
Default more on Hyperthyroid cat


wrote in message
...
We had more lab work done and it came back possitive on the
hyperthyroidism.
Willie is on the meds.
I'm having a really hard time posting to this newsgroup with my news rover
so I'll keep it short.
Jean


Jean! I just took my hyperthyroid cat to the vet this morning, and four
years
after starting on the Tapazole (5 mgs twice a day) her levels are still
perfect.
About 2.8. And they started out being 10.8.

Every morning when I feed her canned food, I let her start on it then
lift her little head and toss her pill to the middle of the back of her
throat, so she can't work it around and out with her tongue. She wants
to get back to her food so badly, she cooperates and swallows. Then
I do the same thing at night. She is twelve years old, and from the first
month she has been on Tapazole, her levels have been normal, in the 2.0s.
She is now twelve and is a much happier, friskier cat. Willie is lucky you
caught and treated it!



--
Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

  #3  
Old November 9th 06, 11:02 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
Buddy's Mom
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 243
Default more on Hyperthyroid cat

Glad Willie is being treated. You will, most likely, need to take him
in for a blood test periodically to see how his thyroid level is being
affected. Keep plugging away!

wrote:
We had more lab work done and it came back possitive on the hyperthyroidism.
Willie is on the meds.
I'm having a really hard time posting to this newsgroup with my news rover
so I'll keep it short.
Jean


  #4  
Old November 9th 06, 11:22 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
cybercat
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 4,212
Default more on Hyperthyroid cat


"Buddy's Mom" wrote in message
ups.com...
Glad Willie is being treated. You will, most likely, need to take him
in for a blood test periodically to see how his thyroid level is being
affected. Keep plugging away!


Every six months is what my vet requires. I just changed vets and they have
the same policy. Her levels have stayed the same over the years, so we are
very lucky.


  #5  
Old November 10th 06, 01:52 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
ChristyLynn
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 16
Default more on Hyperthyroid cat

Your cats have no side effects on the Tapazole? My cat couldn't take it.
He had to be on a 2nd med for the side effects and then he was like a
zombie.



  #6  
Old November 10th 06, 02:34 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
Buddy's Mom
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 243
Default more on Hyperthyroid cat

my cat was 18 when diagnosed. What sort of side effects did your cat
have? Maybe they were part of the hyperthyroidism that wasn't being
treated?


ChristyLynn wrote:
Your cats have no side effects on the Tapazole? My cat couldn't take it.
He had to be on a 2nd med for the side effects and then he was like a
zombie.


  #7  
Old November 10th 06, 03:17 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
ChristyLynn
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 16
Default more on Hyperthyroid cat

When on the meds Toby developed a habit of biting himself, pulling his hair
out. He would be walking across a room and all of a sudden sit down and
start viciously licking and biting himself like he was being attacked by
invisible bugs. The vet then put him on another med for the side effects,
though I don't remember what, but it was probable something like valium or
an anti-anxiety med. He then was a zombie and just slept all the time.
Then we opted for the radiation treatment and he was wonderful for 8 more
years of his life.



  #8  
Old November 13th 06, 06:33 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
tension_on_the_wire
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 547
Default more on Hyperthyroid cat


Buddy's Mom wrote:
my cat was 18 when diagnosed. What sort of side effects did your cat
have? Maybe they were part of the hyperthyroidism that wasn't being
treated?


Tapazole is also known for causing vomiting, and diarrhea. It isn't
because of the taste, as Phil mentioned, but a direct side effect of
the medication. It apparently happens often enough that the vets
forewarn of it, which is important because one needs to sort out
vomiting as a side effect of the med, vs. vomiting as a symptom
of hyperthyroidism. That's partly why following levels is so
important.

Luthien is 14 years old, and just got diagnosed this
summer. Her initial T4 levels were 19.6, apparently the highest
her vet has ever seen. Her little heart was banging away at
240 bpm, poor thing. She started on 5mg daily
(half-tab twice a day), and that got her T4 down to 4.63 which is
just above normal for this lab. And her heart rate is down to 120 bpm,
at home when she is calm. But her Free T4 was still greater than
100 (normal is 10-50) so vet has asked us to increase the dose
by fifty percent. I was a bit skeptical, since her heart rate was
back to normal, but I followed directions. We'll see her levels
again, but fortunately she is having no side effects on meds
at 7.5mg per day. For now, the criteria for me is to follow
her heart rate, which is a quite sensitive indicator for thyroid
levels. If you can get kitty to sit still long enough to measure
it.

Medicine time is quite a show in this house. I felt bad popping
pills down Luthien twice a day, knowing it would be for life,
even though she is a great pill taker. But it was ruining the
fun of her treat time, knowing she had to take the meds, so
now I crunch it up in her food, because she always finishes
the whole plate, so I know she gets all the meds, and the
food hides the taste quite well, and the kitten gets a plate
of treats at the same time so as not to get jealous, and they
never horn in on each other's food and now everybody's happy.

--tension

  #9  
Old November 10th 06, 02:46 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
cybercat
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 4,212
Default more on Hyperthyroid cat


"ChristyLynn" wrote in message
...
Your cats have no side effects on the Tapazole? My cat couldn't take it.
He had to be on a 2nd med for the side effects and then he was like a
zombie.



Sounds like the dosage was not right. Although, hyperT cats are
"hypervigilant,"
twitchy and jumpy from their condition, so correcting it ought to make them
slow down a bit. Boo has been a new cat, happy as she can be, much more
relaxed but very active, too. She has no side effects. She used to vomit a
lot more before she was medicated, now not so much.


  #10  
Old November 10th 06, 10:46 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav
Phil P.
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,027
Default more on Hyperthyroid cat


wrote in message
...
We had more lab work done and it came back possitive on the

hyperthyroidism.
Willie is on the meds.
I'm having a really hard time posting to this newsgroup with my news rover
so I'll keep it short.
Jean


How old is he, Jean?

Phil


 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Hyperthyroid condition... [email protected] Cat health & behaviour 7 September 11th 06 01:12 AM
hyperthyroid theothertom Cat health & behaviour 20 December 6th 04 10:06 PM
Maia Kitty has Hyperthyroid Disease Save Maia Kitty Cat health & behaviour 31 December 5th 04 06:02 PM
Update: Buddha's Hyperthyroid Treatment Mary Cat health & behaviour 10 July 22nd 04 06:18 PM
Please help with v. sick hyperthyroid cat PrairieKats Cat health & behaviour 2 July 17th 04 02:17 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 01:27 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 CatBanter.
The comments are property of their posters.