My 13 year old cat was diganosed with cardiomyopathy in October. Unfortunately he'd done a pretty good job of hiding his symptoms until it was too late. The vet said he was in the advanced stages but that he could give us medication to buy him some more weeks/months. While I was devestated to hear the diagnosis, he's been doing pretty well on the meds and it's been quite easy to almost forget that he's nearing the end of his life.
Last week I took him for a check up and saw a different vet. He was concerned that fluid was starting to collect in his abdomen so he's upped his meds. He now takes a heart pill once a day, a diuretic pill once a day, a liquid diuretic 3x a day and a quarter of an Asprin every 3 days. He's seeing the vet tomorrow for a review.
However, during the course of today he seems to have developed an odd symptom. His nose has become quite blocked and snotty and he's been asleep on the sofa since we got home 8 hours ago. I can see in his face that he's not feeling good, and his breathing looks more laboured again.
Is this likely to be related to the cardiomyopathy or something else? I'm pretty worried about him and am reluctant to go to bed and leave him on his own. He has been exposed to cat flu (we got a rescue cat who turned out to be poorly) but it was right at the beginning of the year and his vaccinations have always been kept up to date.
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Cardiomyopathy - odd new symptom
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fairyjasmine · 21/12/2015 23:38
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