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What is wrong with my cat? Digestive and skin inflammation?
Obviously, something is wrong with my cat, but the vet tells me that they don't know what it is. I have exhausted my financial resources, and the next visit to the vet may be the last as I am considering putting her to sleep. Please help!
Symptoms Present:
7 yr old Domestic short hair
10+ patches of bloody skin lesions on the underside of the torso, inside of her legs, and under armpits
Two week period of excessive vomiting (four times a day) and loss of appetite
Abnormally large, putrid smelling feces
Behavior depressed and withdrawn
weight loss from 14 lbs to 10 lbs over a 9 month period
Behavior:
Only cat in the household
Indoor cat
Noticeable excessive grooming
No history of health problems
Previous vet visit before symptoms started in February was a teeth cleaning procedure
Ruled out Feline Leukemia and FIV with blood tests
Food: Prescription Diet d/d Venison and Green Pea (no people food)
Litter: World's Best Cat Litter (corn meal based)
I'm really sorry about your cat. Your question intrigued me, and I have been sitting here with three years of notes and internal medicine texts to see if I could find any sort of answer for you. Unfortunately, I've not had a lot of luck so far, but I have got a few questions for you.
Something I am interested to know- did your vet attempt all the workup themselves, or did they offer you specialist referral? If not, though consultation & workup is probably not an option for you now if you've exhausted your resources, I wonder if your vet can send her whole history say to a uni vet school hospital and see if they can come up with any answers.
How did her symptoms present- did she have the gastrointestinal signs first, or the skin lesions? Has she got skin lesions other than the bloody patches, e.g. hairloss, or are they relatively well defined.
Do you think it is possible that the skin problems are entirely due to her excessive grooming, or were the signs starting to appear before she started to overgroom?
I'm assuming that she has had full blood profiles and the like done- were any of these abnormal, and if so, what were the abnormalities? Also, has she had any diagnostic imaging done (x-ray, ultrasound)?
One of my thoughts was an allergic or immune-mediated problem. Has she ever been tried on cortisone (prednisolone)? Although not 'gold standard medicine', if she hasn't been and if you are close to the point of euthanising her, it would be worth a try.
The only other thing that occured to me was that occasionally some internal cancers can cause skin problems due to distant affects of the tumour (called a paraneoplastic syndrome). This is pretty rare, and probably less likely given the weight loss (I would expect far greater loss more quickly), but is one of the reasons that I ask whether there was any imaging done.
I'm really sorry that I couldn't be more helpful. Take care, and I sincerely hope that you find an answer soon. Please feel free to email me if you want to.
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