shadow never had any weakness, just a sudden paralysis. took him to missou vet school er at 11 pm. took 3 hours and he screamed all the way every time we hit a bump in the road. diagnosis was a tumor on his spine. since he was 18 and the posibility of recovering use of his legs and bladder control was not good, we decided to let him go rather than put him thru surgery that he might not survive. ---- Amy <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wondering what sort of experience people have had with leuk positive > cats getting weak in the back legs. My cat, Wolfie, is 8 and has been > positive since we rescued him 6 years ago. He's been pretty healthy other > than the last year or so. Last September he was diagnosed with > non-regenerative anemia but has been fairly stable since then. I recently > took him to the vet as I noticed he was getting weak in his hind legs, > walking differently and avoiding putting weight on them for long periods of > time. His HCT is down, WBC and RBC are a bit lower than usual. Chemistry > looks ok. > > I've had 9 cats die from this disease and only ever saw one with leg issues. > She woke up one morning and had lost all use of her back legs, no warning. > This is different from that situation and just wondering what could be going > on. We did an ultrasound today. No sign of lymphoma or anything pressing on > the spine. No real loss of muscle mass on physical exam. We are putting him > on doxy/pred in case hemobart is causing the anemia. The specialist at > Cornell mentioned it could be something with the leukemia affecting the > muscle or nerves directly but she couldn't find any literature on this. I > told her I'd post here and see if anybody has had a similar experience or has > anything to add on what could be going on. > > Thanks > Amy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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