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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: Canterbury_cats (Sharon) on February 02, 2010, 16:38:17 PM
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I am been awake since 4am . as last night Leo had a bout out cystitis. He was not able to go for a pee despite lots of attempts.. i am sure he has held onto it during the day as not keen on this cold weather.. I had the tray down all the time.. I got him to the vets this morning. Fine in himself but i think he has given himself a infection or something as the urge is still to go even though he has not.
The vets however did not find a blocked bladder or anything and nothing wrong.. So we put it down to an infection. He has a injection of synlox and some tablets to take for a few days. Plus i need to get a urine sample to rule out crystals.
He seems more relaxed and not so stressed now and has been out for a quick walk around.Eating fine and alert.
However 2 nights in a row without much sleep cannot be said for the same for me.. Tonight i will need to lock him in one room to make sure he uses the tray to collect the urine sample!! Otherwise Bella will be using it.. I expect he want be too pleased being locked out the main part of the house and not on my bed! Lets hope he does not moew all night!
BTW the bill was 44.00 which included a fiver for "injection fee" in other words a fee for the doing the injection. While another for the drugs in the injection.. I have to say i am not sure what else vets can put on their bill.. !! Maybe charge to clean the surgery table after the last patient.. Or charge to sit on the chairs in the waiting room...! Leo is insured but it comes under the amount the excess needed to pay..
£26 for a consult is roughtly 2 quid per minute...
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Lets hope he starts to feel better quickly. It is probably a good thing if it is bacterial as there is much less chance of it recurring than with the other. Did they recommend cystaid? - Mannose-d (a type of glucose - an expensive type :evillaugh: ) is supposed to be a good way to treat bacterial cystitis
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Hope Leo feels better soon Sharon :hug:
like the bit about the bill - I concur :evillaugh:
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I was charged £41 sat morning for FiFi and her cystitis , had to go back yesterday as she was no better (also couldn;;t find anything wrong -2 injections and tablets -took 5 to no effect)
£13 yesterday for 2 injections and off again tonight as she is still the same + 30mile round trip each time =petrol !
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Thanks all.. he seems much more relaxed tonight.. But i still have not seen him use the litter tray.. We did have a walk around earlier so maybe he went outside!
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Bless Leo, hope he feels much better soon! :Luv2: :hug:
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My vet will charge a 'setup dispensing' fee but thats instead of a consult not along with it :Crazy: hope hes back to normal soon