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Dr. K called with test results yesterday, and as we suspected, Saki's thyroid is rocketing, which can explain all the symptoms she has right now, so the advice was to go up on her thyroid meds. I do like everything about her approach that I'm picking up from what she says and how she reacts. I think I've got a good medical guide for Saki now, and that is a big relief for her senior years.
The problem now is that going up on the thyroid med is suppressing Saki's appetite and is wiping her out, and I'm still worried if maybe we're going up a little too fast, so I may need to call back tomorrow. Poor thing has been through a hormonal roller coaster the past 4 months with the prednisolone lowering her thyroid levels and making her miserable, and then her thyroid levels shooting up when we went down to a pred dose she could tolerate. The pred shot her up over a pound and a half, and then with its lowering she's gone down more than 2 and half pounds, which is a lot on her little frame. And it's going to take a while for her thyroid to stabilize, and if the meds suppress her appetite she might lose even more weight, and that's worrisome. And hopefully, she's not having an IBD reaction from the drop in the pred in addition to the thyroid rise. So we're no way out of the woods yet. At least her kidney values look good now, because the rise in blood pressure that comes with hyperthyroidism flushes them out nicely, so her renal disease is in check.
In praise of fatness, I'm really glad Saki started from a point of being a little overweight. If she started from the prescribed weight, she wouldn't have room for a weight drop like this. Yes, being very overweight is generally hard on the body, but I think in more cases than not, being a little overweight from what is considered standard for pets, as well as humans, is actually better for health and shores the body up against the wasting away that is part of advanced aging, and eventually, the medical establishment is going to stop trying to blame obesity for causing conditions where there is no scientific basis and catch up with me. (-;
Here's a portrait of Her Sakiness I took Thursday:
It's a bit of a stuffy, William F Buckley, Jr. look for her; she is a much more spritely, sunny, and loving person than this pic might suggest. But I love how her nose is shining in it. And luckily, she likes that nose being pet. If you gently run a finger down her nose, it will be licked and nuzzled.
I like how you can see through her right eye globe in this one. She has very big globy eyes because she is only posing as a tortie-point meezer. In actuality, she is a very pretty pug dog who has had a facelift.
And the old vet called Friday night, 3 days after I had left a message about the situation. I was icily polite and she expressed no real concern for Saki's health once she heard I had seen another vet. Good riddance.
The problem now is that going up on the thyroid med is suppressing Saki's appetite and is wiping her out, and I'm still worried if maybe we're going up a little too fast, so I may need to call back tomorrow. Poor thing has been through a hormonal roller coaster the past 4 months with the prednisolone lowering her thyroid levels and making her miserable, and then her thyroid levels shooting up when we went down to a pred dose she could tolerate. The pred shot her up over a pound and a half, and then with its lowering she's gone down more than 2 and half pounds, which is a lot on her little frame. And it's going to take a while for her thyroid to stabilize, and if the meds suppress her appetite she might lose even more weight, and that's worrisome. And hopefully, she's not having an IBD reaction from the drop in the pred in addition to the thyroid rise. So we're no way out of the woods yet. At least her kidney values look good now, because the rise in blood pressure that comes with hyperthyroidism flushes them out nicely, so her renal disease is in check.
In praise of fatness, I'm really glad Saki started from a point of being a little overweight. If she started from the prescribed weight, she wouldn't have room for a weight drop like this. Yes, being very overweight is generally hard on the body, but I think in more cases than not, being a little overweight from what is considered standard for pets, as well as humans, is actually better for health and shores the body up against the wasting away that is part of advanced aging, and eventually, the medical establishment is going to stop trying to blame obesity for causing conditions where there is no scientific basis and catch up with me. (-;
Here's a portrait of Her Sakiness I took Thursday:
It's a bit of a stuffy, William F Buckley, Jr. look for her; she is a much more spritely, sunny, and loving person than this pic might suggest. But I love how her nose is shining in it. And luckily, she likes that nose being pet. If you gently run a finger down her nose, it will be licked and nuzzled.
I like how you can see through her right eye globe in this one. She has very big globy eyes because she is only posing as a tortie-point meezer. In actuality, she is a very pretty pug dog who has had a facelift.
And the old vet called Friday night, 3 days after I had left a message about the situation. I was icily polite and she expressed no real concern for Saki's health once she heard I had seen another vet. Good riddance.
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BWAHAHAHAHA!
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Maybe we should both do other pet lovers a favor, and get some steam out of our systems, by writing reviews of these vets on yelp.com.
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When my regular vet was back I did followup with him, and asked about the treatment the other guy had recommended. Turns out it was something that my vet knew about, had been pressured by salespeople to provide for his patients, but when he did his own, independent research he discovered that it was more likely to have no effect whatsoever on the cat's health. And so he declined to offer it. And since he went through the Ohio State University's School of Veterinary Medicine, and took a special focus on treating cats, I would tend to go with his opinion.
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At the new vet, I took Saki to Dr. K, a vet I hadn't seen yet, having met Dr F, one of the jr vets when I brought in Brigit and liking how he handled her very much. So I've got 2 vets I've gotten a good impression of at this practice already. And from the reviews on yelp.com, I suspect I will like the other senior vet. And they apparently do house calls, which isn't even the old practices ballpark. Dr K lives in my town, which is another plus.
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childpet is sick and there's not a whole lot you can do but wait. Saki's lucky she has such a loving mama.From:
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*hugs you very tightly*
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