Ashley Pee Troubles - Vet Wants Ashley to Start Amitriptyline - STILL PEEING

[Anikaca77]

Here is a link to a thread I posted in the Cat General Section:

http://www.petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=156428


Here is what I wrote in that Thread:

http://www.petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=156297

The link above is to my old thread I wrote about Ashley and today she is at the vets to get an x-ray of her bladder.

Please say a pray that she does well today. I hope we figure out the reason why she keeps peeing outside the box. Yesterday morning there was pee beside the tub, then again last evening, and whem my husband got home from work at about 1:30 a.m. he told me their was pee in the tub.

So today hopefully we will figure out why she keeps doing it.

Melissa

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I just called the vets, no stones...... I guess that's good for her but why is she doing this .... they are going to do a cysto to get her pee and then I guess we have to run a culture most likely.

Poor girl at least they didn't have to sedate her. I'll be picking her up after 3 p.m. today.

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Yesterday I went to pick up Ashley at 3 p.m. and she still didn't give them a pee sample so I had to wait until she did go to bring her home. They said they might need to keep her overnight if she doesn't pee by 7 p.m. so I went home without my baby girl last night which was hard to not have her in the house, but I called the vets at 6:45 p.m. and they finally got one but they had to retrieve it from her.

The vet said there was a few white blood cells but no blood was seen which I've never seen any either. The vet said there were no Struvite crystals but Oxalate crystals were present along with some white blood cells.

She is sending some pee to a lab to do a culture test and hopefully they will come up with something as to why she keeps doing it.

The vet said she thinks it's behavioral but I just can't see her doing it this many times if it is. We have had her on valium before and I want to rule out all medical tests before we say it's behavioral.

I don't know what more I can do for Ashley if it is behavioral, we have a 1 bedroom apartment and Ashley is in the bedroom that joins our bathroom as well so our other 6 cats stay out in the living room/dining room and kitchen area.

She has been so much happier since we have limited her access, she's still allowed to come out in the living room if she wants too but she just stays in the bedroom and seems pretty happy about that.

I know she can still smell/hear the other guy cats that she doesn't like but I've tried feliaway and we tried the valium up until we found out that she had crystals in her urine and the vet told me to stop them because it may be the crystals that were causing her to inappropriately pee elsewhere.

For now though we will just wait and see what the lab has to say and go from there. The one newer vet mentioned to me about a new kind of behavioral medication that they put on your cats ear and maybe we will have to try that with Ashley after I do some research. Ashley is only 5 years old and I don't want to give her a lot of meds that could compromise her health in the later years.

I guess I'll just wait till I hear from the vets to see what the lab work shows.

Thanks for the prays,
Melissa

[Catty1]

If she is happy in the bedroom by herself, maybe keep it that way. Is her peeing problem less when she has her own space to herself?

Prayers this is fixed soon!

[Anikaca77]

If she is happy in the bedroom by herself, maybe keep it that way. Is her peeing problem less when she has her own space to herself?

Prayers this is fixed soon!

We've had Ashley in the bedroom for over a month now I think and she has improved I think by seeming happier. She gets a little grumpy if we let the kitten in the room with her so we end up usually putting the kitten out in the living room.

In a way I hope the lab work shows something but not something serious. That way it's not behavorial but if it is I just don't know.

We have her in the bedroom with 2 of the other female cats that she likes and they don't bug her and she even plays with them so I feel she can't be getting ticked off by them.

I guess we'll see what happens with the bloodwork first and go from there.

Thanks for asking,
Melissa

[Medusa]

Valium worked only briefly on my pee cats. Clomicalm did the trick.

[Anikaca77]

Valium worked only briefly on my pee cats. Clomicalm did the trick.

I'll check with the vet if it turns out the lab has nothing to say about it.

Thanks,
Melissa

[Anikaca77]

The vet called last Friday afternoon and spoke with my husband about Hermes with his scratching and Ashley with her peeing problem. The vet said the lab said everything was normal in Ashley's pee and they want to start her on amitriptyline. I did alot of research on it and I think she might benefit from it. It's funny though since I had her at the vets from 8:30 am -3:15 pm she hasn't gone outside the box and has seemed pretty content. Now watch since I'm typing this out she will do it sometime today or tonight.

I'm going to contact the vet to see how much the amitriptyline is, she said there are 2 forms of it, one a pill form and the other they can rub onto her ear and it gets into their system and avoids stressing them out more.

I hoping something will help her, I don't want her to be stressed. The vet said we should continue feeding her the C/D food but we went back to feeding her the California Natural food because she never had crystals before and I kinda wonder if the vet was even right about the crystals but I'm sure they were.

I'm going to also ask the vet if they will check Ashley's blood before putting her on amitriptyline because she was on valium for a few months earlier this year and I just want to make sure her overall health is ok.

Melissa