will try the yogurt. went to walmart and they had no pumpkin! going to grocery store later today when I pick up Bob's medicine (blood pressure and lactulose). I'm going to call and see if the vet is there today to talk to me about the test she sent to Michigan State. I noticed Iams has a new food for digestive problems. Can't use that, and wouldn't use iams, but it must be becoming a problem or just now being treated in older cats? will ask vet about cisapride again. I think I'm just going to let that one go. Goodbye $30 and a trip across town! Where do you buy prozyme???? t
MaryChristine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and you know my answer: add yogurt to that pumpkin! if he's a coonie, he's even more likely to love it... (coons seem to love pumpkin, for some unknown reason) the whole thing sounds weird to me--as far as i know (which is limited), baytril IS still the first drug of choice for utis, and in males, treatment is often started before culturing is complete just because of the risk of blockage. so i'm not sure that what the first vet did was so far off.... barb, think this is what's going on with joe's boy? just getting older and the digestive system not so motile? what'd they end up doing with him? On 9/28/07, Barb Moermond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cisapride? hmm. it's been taken off the U.S. market for people... http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/cisap.htm I think lactulose is worth trying - one brand is Enulose - ask about it (firmly) are you using digestive enzymes? I sprinkle prozyme on their crunchies and if I run out, or hubby forgets, Bandit gets diarrhea - icky... metamucil sprinkled on his food couldn't hurt either Barb+Smoky the House Puma+El Bandito Malito "My cat the clown: paying no mind to whom he should impress. Merely living his life, doing what pleases him, and making me smile." - Anonymous ----- Original Message ---- From: catatonya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: " felvtalk@felineleukemia.org" <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 4:11:59 AM Subject: ot-cisapride? My cat Bob is still having problems with constipation. He is still currently negative for felv (just retested him last week). He was positive as a kitten in 1992ish. He then threw the virus, and has lived with 2 positives all his life. He is the one who has had the oxcylate crystals. As some of you remember my vet quit to work on csi cases with aspca, etc.... Bob was straining to urinate and I took him to the new vet at the clinic who gave him fluids and put him on baytril. After 2 days he seemed worse, and was also constipated. I called another vet and she said that my 'new vet' had not done a culture, and she thought Bob's system was messed up by the Baytril. She did a culture. It was negative. And she took him off the antibiotic. She gave him fluids, x-rayed for stones (none), no crystals, put him on lactulose. Well we finally ended up having to give him an enema. She has found the start of kidney disease, and has me giving him 150 mL of fluids each week. The constipation is still there! She had me buy something compounded called cisapride to help his GI system. He won't take it and foams at the mouth and spits it out when he does. I have discontinued it. Has anyone ever used this before? Same results? I have changed him to all wet food (royal canin s/o). I am going to start putting pumpkin in it. Any further suggestions???? tonya -- Spay & Neuter Your Neighbors! Maybe That'll Make The Difference.... MaryChristine AIM / YAHOO: TenHouseCats MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 289856892
