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Hello thanks. No endoscopy yet but my vet mentioned that’s something we could do, especially if it progresses or doesn’t resolve on its own with the help of the Sulfacrate. There has been pretty significant improvement as of late though so I’m not sure how I feel about putting him under and sticking a scope in him with how things are right now. He has an appointment with the ophthalmologist who originally suggested we treat with the doxy this coming Friday (26th), so I am planning to run this all by her as I assume she’s prescribed a lot of doxy dealing with eye/conjunctiva issues constantly and has therefore probably seen a myriad of side effects from it, and she may be better able to gauge what’s going on and what the best next step is. I won’t put him on doxy again though as it seems to have done nothing for him but cause problems. His eye thing is also very minimal and besides looking a bit odd causes no problems, he has no symptoms of infection, ect. I think that’s just how it healed after his bad URI as a kitten months before I got him, and am hoping she will conclude the same once actually seeing him herself in person, and that saga will be over with.Getting into this late. Has he been scopes for esophageal ulcers or stomach ulcers? If he was my cat, I would try to avoid any extra ingredients in cat food, such as fruits or vegetables. I would feed a canned diet with limited ingredients. I would also feed small meals and make sure the Carafate is dissolved into water like a thick slurry and given 1 hour before or two hours after meals or medications. Also, and food should be served room temperature.
He does eat mostly limited ingredient canned though there are a few/minimal fruits/vegetables in two of the brands he gets sometimes, one of which is the Farmina that has pumpkin and blueberries and his trembling has always been super minimal when he has that. Surprisingly I have noticed the worst refluxy-ness after he eats the most purely meaty food (haven’t tested it much but he seemed the worst after the Feline Natural which has zero fruits or veggies). He does only have these issues with wet food though, zero issues with dry. He gets wet 3x a day and a little bit of dry once a day right before I go to sleep. The wet is always served at or close to room temperature, comes out of the fridge sometimes but I will nuke it for a few seconds in the micro and/or add some hot water to bring it up to temp.
The sulfacrate came in liquid/pre-mixed form and I was instructed to give it 30-40 minutes before his morning and evening wet food, but if you think waiting a full hour would be more beneficial I don’t think it would hurt to try that instead. He doesn’t have much of it left now, though.
P.S The trembling was very light/minimal with breakfast this morning, not quite as subtle as with yesterday’s lunch but definitely the #2 runner-up spot for improvement thus far
Attached are some pictures of his persistently visible little strips of upper conjunctiva (that the rescue thought were a big nothing-burger) that I just thought haaaaad to be investigated, that started this whole mess lol
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