Homer being sick

[JES72]

As far as I can work out, if it is Addison's disease then with medication it may get a better. Most of the information available is when it is a congenital condition and found when they are very young, in this case it doesn't get better.

 

[Kelsey]

He is still having reflux at 2am -4am. This is mostly when he brings up mucus or bile sometimes some bits of food

This part here I wonder if it’s just because he’s hungry in the middle of the night? All three of my recent animals would do this in the early early mornings and I had no idea why until I saw online about animals doing this if their tummy’s are empty. So I started to give bigger meals in the evening for dinner, or little bed time snacks I hear works, and that stopped it from happening. Unless Axel had an exceptionally more calorie burning day and I didn’t compensate enough for it, then he would throw up bile.

 

[JES72]

Eating at table! After the photo, I put a doormat under his feet at they were slipping a bit. Then put some food into his slow feeder.

 

[Cath]

Clear lad

 

[kateincornwall]

Bless his heart xx

 

[JES72]

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Then I could get him an easel so he can have his bowl at a bit of an angle.

 

[JES72]

I'm not sure if it will be a bit hard on his back legs but he was more comfortable when I put the door may under his back feet. He's taken to it quite well. After all those years knowing not to touch anything on the table!!

 

[Atemas]

Bless him . Well done @JES72 - you are finding solutions - it can’t be easy. The writing slope is worth a try and you could fix a licky mat after he’s eaten to keep him in that position for a bit longer possibly

 

[M.F.]

He’s finally got his place at the table!

This looks like a great solution. Perhaps also a mat on the floor so that his back paws can grip. And a mat under the bowl to stop it slipping. Snowie’s stainless steel bowl has a rim on which I place a heavy rock so that it stays put when he licks it out.

 

[JES72]

We had years of his stainless steel bowls clattering across the kitchen floor and tsunami floods of water as he loved tipping over his stainless steel water bowl. Never thought of putting a rock in it. Went for the expensive stoneware ones, worth the expense thought.

 

[Selina27]

Well done @JES72, for persevering with solutions for dear Homer xx

 

[Loraseal]

Well done Homer and good thinking @JES72. You are amazing @JES72. Homer is one very lucky fur baby.X

 

[MellowYellow]

Go Homer! I hope this continues to work for you both!!

 

[JES72]

Dinner is served, Sir!

We are making slow progress. This set up seems to work for us and him. He gets his slow feeder or his lick mat to slow him down a bit after his meal. He is getting better at night but still makes gaging retching noises. I made a special night time pillow to keep his head up a bit more. He has been bringing up his lunch and dinner soon after eating then eating it again off the floor. Somehow second time round it manages to stay down. Lucky we can keep the back door open and he manages to get outside to vomit.
It’s not Addison’s or Cushion’s. Still waiting for more blood test results including testes for Myasthenia Gravis.

 

[Cath]

See that you both are working hard to sort this out. Great work x

 

[M.F.]

Wonderful photos! He’s doing so well. And so much effort from you.

It is odd though that when he eats normally (the vomit) with head down, it stays down.

 

[kateincornwall]

So very well done , you really are a star for your vigilance , bless the boy xxx

 

[Stacia]

Wonderful photos! He’s doing so well. And so much effort from you.

It is odd though that when he eats normally (the vomit) with head down, it stays down.

Try going back to head down feeding again? is the vomited food a bit softer even though it has been down for such a short time.

 

[JES72]

On vet's instructions, I do have to persevere with the standing up feeding for a bit longer. If anything its that he's not standing up for long enough.
He did really well yesterday but today has been sick a number of times with thick sticky mucus and some food. At least the sticky mucus is somewhat easy to clean up because it sticks into a slime like gloopy blob.

 

[JES72]

He did really well for a full 36 hours! No vomitting or reflux all of yesterday and our fourth night of no reflux or regurgitation. I finally feel that we are making progress in how to manage his condition.

He vomitted his breakfast this morning after being fed upright. He then eats it all up from the floor and it stays down. I am trying to get my head around this, the vet doesn't really have any answers for why either.

He is negative for all that they've tested for.
"Ach receptor antibodies; these are negative and therefore not supportive of a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis. The diagnosis is most likely idiopathic megaesophagus although I cannot rule out the possibility of it being paraneoplastic (due to the previous adrenal tumor)."

So I'm not sure if this is now how he'll be or if there's a chance of remission.