Anyone on here that can help? My DCat is very sick and we have nowhere left to go. Sorry this is long.
She's 9, was a stray and is the loveliest wee thing. Nothing of significance in her medical history until this point.
A month ago she went off her food. Totally uninterested, sitting hunched and looking mighty uncomfortable. Bloods, ultrasound and xray all utterly normal on first inspection. 2nd specialist opinion was sought, which noted a slight enlargement of one lymph node and a slight suspicion of a grumpy pancreas. She was treated as it it were her pancreas - pain killers. She rallied somewhat but was never totally back to normal - slight behaviour changes.
3 weeks later, her behaviour totally changed. Sleeping in her litter tray, trying to climb into weird and wonderful places. Whisked her back to vet, suspect urine infection, treated with antibiotics. Again, rallied but still not herself.
She was slightly improved for 3 days, before we took her back again as she was uncontrollably salivating and was mighty pissed off. Aggressive (not like her at all) and dribbling everywhere. Bloods and xrays repeated. All normal, no change from previous results. Given steroids. Rallied again, but still not her usual self. Lasted a week.
Found her in the morning a bit disoriented and vocal. Deteriorated over 4 hours to then be unable to place feet and walk - she was very wobbly, disoriented and shaky. Immediately took her to vet who performed neurological exam and observed her gait etc. Dulled reflex when presented to a table edge ie she didn't try and place a foot on the surface. She did correct a knuckled over foot however and blink reflex OK. Discovered she was immensely painful down her spine but previous xrays x2 were totally normal. Sent home on massive painkillers, steroids and gabapentin.
Overnight she is a bit more balanced but tail is uncontrolled and she's moving her head very jerky. Her ears are twitching and shes unable to control her head and general movement- momentum carries her on and she bumps things harder than she means to. Shes staring off into space and seems so dead behind the eyes. Shes pacing and restless- we feel like she has no idea where she is and what shes supposed to be doing.
We are utterly heartbroken as we dont think she will recover. Can anyone think of anything we have missed? Clinically all her tests and imaging show not one thing out of whack and yet she's so poorly.