For those of you who don’t know, Gizmo is a 3 year old healthy cat. Never has had any health issues.
I’m hoping someone here has come across this.
I moved us in to our new place on Sunday night. Axel’s been at his sitters so it was just gizmo and I. He was totally fine. He explored and ate some dinner drank some water. Then he snoozed, he was very tired and it made sense. It was a long day.
Monday morning we wake up early, at 430. I shower and get ready for work. He was still snoozing but following me. So pretty normal but I would say still more on the sleepy side. He didn’t eat or drink through out the night which was also unusual.
I come home from work 9 hours later and he was acting odd. He couldn’t walk straight, very stiff legged and drunk like. Couldn’t hold his head up, kept dropping to the side and down. If he did hold it up it was very stiff and unnatural looking. I check his food and water and still no change. So right away I rushed him to the vet. We wait an hour and a half to be seen.
They did blood work and found his potassium very low so they right away put him on IV fluids and said he will be staying the night.
Update in the middle of the night was his potassium dropped even though he’s getting heavy dose of constant potassium. So it went from 3.0 when he arrived to 2.7. Now the weird thing is the symptoms he is showing don’t typically show up unless the potassium level is less than 2.5.
Just had another update now. His potassium is sitting at 2.7. No improvement on his symptoms. His urinalysis came back normal. His blood work did too for the most part. Electrolytes were low and obviously potassium. But his kidneys are in good working order, no diabetes signs. Nothing. Even the internal medicine specialist is stumped, he has never come across this or heard of this either. No one has any idea why this is happening. They did a drug screen too and it came back clean. Cuz it’s a new place we were worried maybe someone’s old drugs were hiding somewhere and he snatched it up. So now they are testing his thyroid as basically just trying to find answers. Next will be abdomen X-ray and ultrasound to check for masses, blockages, and check adrenal glands. They said super rare but sometimes adrenal glands can over secrete causing these type of symptoms but once again, very rare.
so I’m hoping someone here has come across this and can help us solve this puzzle before he passes
I’m hoping someone here has come across this.
I moved us in to our new place on Sunday night. Axel’s been at his sitters so it was just gizmo and I. He was totally fine. He explored and ate some dinner drank some water. Then he snoozed, he was very tired and it made sense. It was a long day.
Monday morning we wake up early, at 430. I shower and get ready for work. He was still snoozing but following me. So pretty normal but I would say still more on the sleepy side. He didn’t eat or drink through out the night which was also unusual.
I come home from work 9 hours later and he was acting odd. He couldn’t walk straight, very stiff legged and drunk like. Couldn’t hold his head up, kept dropping to the side and down. If he did hold it up it was very stiff and unnatural looking. I check his food and water and still no change. So right away I rushed him to the vet. We wait an hour and a half to be seen.
They did blood work and found his potassium very low so they right away put him on IV fluids and said he will be staying the night.
Update in the middle of the night was his potassium dropped even though he’s getting heavy dose of constant potassium. So it went from 3.0 when he arrived to 2.7. Now the weird thing is the symptoms he is showing don’t typically show up unless the potassium level is less than 2.5.
Just had another update now. His potassium is sitting at 2.7. No improvement on his symptoms. His urinalysis came back normal. His blood work did too for the most part. Electrolytes were low and obviously potassium. But his kidneys are in good working order, no diabetes signs. Nothing. Even the internal medicine specialist is stumped, he has never come across this or heard of this either. No one has any idea why this is happening. They did a drug screen too and it came back clean. Cuz it’s a new place we were worried maybe someone’s old drugs were hiding somewhere and he snatched it up. So now they are testing his thyroid as basically just trying to find answers. Next will be abdomen X-ray and ultrasound to check for masses, blockages, and check adrenal glands. They said super rare but sometimes adrenal glands can over secrete causing these type of symptoms but once again, very rare.
so I’m hoping someone here has come across this and can help us solve this puzzle before he passes
