My Buddy had a spasm at the neck of his bladder, and they said a PU wouldn't help. He had a tube put into his bladder so he could pee out of a tube in his belly (this was 9-10 years ago). A permanent tube? Does this mean it constantly leaks? If this is an option for our kitten if he goes downhill I...

This is the topic we have had to educate ourselves about over the last few months. I would love to express our kitten, but unfortunately it has just not worked - multiple vets have tried, we have tried, we followed all the videos we could find and it just does not seem to work. No vet, vet surgeon, ...

Feline Idiopathic Cystitis often presents itself in a similar way to infections as well, which from what we've been told by our vet can be triggered by stress. Could she be getting stressed out from the frequent expression or maybe the regular shaving? Our vet recommended Cystease and Zylkene. Not s...

Hi, Our kitten has had tons of urinary problems and we have found a routine of sorts to keep him chugging along. His problems consisted/consist of: - UTI and blockagae introduced by a vet during neutering surgery - Subsequent bladder distension due to infection, stricture - UTI after perineal urethr...

A couple of months ago I had a thread in the Emergency section, about our Maine Coon kitten who couldn't pee and had been in hospital for weeks. Nobody had been able to express him at the 3 hospitals he was in and we haven't either. They found a stricture during a bladder biopsy and did a perineal u...

She also said that we should try to take him off of Stesolid (Valium). Which we did - I'm not sure if this could have anything to do with his diminishing volume of pee. I would let her know. If you can't talk to her directly, leave a message telling her exactly what you are seeing. When she said to...

Hi, We actually have no idea :( I've been staying awake with him since Wednesday, had time off of work and my partner was away, so it was just a week of waiting "heck". He peed twice a day a couple of times, most other times would pee once every 24 hours - once it was after 25 hours. Then ...

How much does he weigh? Are you trying to express him with one hand or two? Did you get a chance to watch all the videos at the end of this article? http://handicappedpet.net/helppets/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=16027 Have you looked up what clinics are in your area and called them to ask if they have ...

Today I thought I made a horrible mistake by not putting him to sleep yesterday. We took him to the local emergency vet yesterday (which was also Vet 2 in our whole vet debacle), since I was very worried about him and was freaking out and because Vet 3 (the latest one) also wanted to get some offici...

For the other US people: Vetrimoxin is amoxi Stesolid=diazepam Alfadil=??? Myocholine=bethanechol Is there a more local vet you could use who could help sort it all out? Unfortunately the local vets are the ones we went to originally :( one infected him, the other distended his bladder. There is a ...

Hmm, I wonder if the stricture, spasm, or whatever keeps him from being expressed, too? I just looked up "myocholine" to see what it's called in this country, and it's bethanechol, which made Buddy IMPOSSIBLE to express. It increased the spasticity of the spasm unbelievably; in fact, the ...

He peed this morning! By himself??!!! That's amazing! I took him home from the hospital last night to spend his last day with us. If he didn't at least try to pee within 24 hours he would have to be put to sleep. I couldn't find a home veterinarian who was willing to try to express him, so she woul...

He peed this morning! I took him home from the hospital last night to spend his last day with us. If he didn't at least try to pee within 24 hours he would have to be put to sleep. I couldn't find a home veterinarian who was willing to try to express him, so she would just come and put him to sleep ...

Found a holistic vet who will try to help. We will see what the vet says in today's call and take it from there. I will ask the hospital if they would let her come and administer acupuncture treatment, and she has some "natural remedies" that she can try, but first she wants to observe our...

The only suggestion I have is to start at this post, and if it seems of interest, go back and read the whole 5-page thread. The cause of the bladder condition may be different but the story of not being able to express is so similar. You have to understand that when they got to this point, they had...