Aging cat massive weight loss and constantly eating and crying for food

pimento

Let us know how you get on.

puddy

no i didnt mean does his poo smell like sewage, i meant the actual cat. my cat has diabetes. she started losing a lot of weight but being ravenously hungry. she is on insulin injections (very easy to do and the cat doesnt mind at all, so dont worry if this is the diagnosis), but at times when she stopped reacting to the insulin and we had to change it, she got ill again and i noticed that she was eating loads, losing weight and having the runs a lot. plus she was a smelly cat. obviously there is the obesession with water, because they're so thirsty, jumping in the bath, sink, seeking out other water which might be dirty hence upset stomachs all the time.

it might not be that, your vet will be able to test for lots of things but its not the end of the world if it is

madget_2

Good luck at the vet's. Like others on this thread, my last cat ended up with hyperthyroidism, which was pretty easily kept under control for several years with tablets. She actually died because of an entirely different medical condition at over 18 years old.

If it is hyperthyroidism, he should feel an awful lot more comfortable and happier once they get his medication at the correct dosage (it can take a little period of adjusting the amount to find out exactly how many pills he needs to keep it under control).

Waterfalls

def sounds like hyperthyroidisim, a trip the vets for a T4 blood test as asap. ( the first blood test is always a little more difficuut to take as they're not on treatment yet)
its very common in older cats, and they tend to do very well on tablets

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Stick the tablet in a dollop of pate and by the second day, the mog will be sitting by the fridge waiting for their medicine every morning and night!

It takes a couple of months for the appetite to reduce, but the rate of weight gain in response to the medication is phenomenal - one week and you'll be wondering how you ever picked the lump up!

no1catman

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is Chronic Renal Failure (CRF), which will be diagnosed with a blood test. But another clue is the smell of the cats breath.
With the problem with the kidney, the cat feels uncomfortable with the 'taste' of urine in the stomach (the kidney can't process it as well as normal), so it needs to drink much more to wash it through as much as possible.
Muscle wastage is also a symptom.

Good luck, keep us posted.

cyberbob

No one on here is a vet or has seen your cat. There is little point in speculating as all you'll end up being is Paranoid. See what the vets say

jaymac_2

Mine had similar symptoms, had blood tests but they didn't indicate a problem. Eventually the vet suggested the cat might have a sensitive stomach and prescribed special food which was fine for a few days but then the cat stopped eating. we never worked out what the problem was.

calmspirit

any news yet?

spike7451

no1catman wrote: »

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is Chronic Renal Failure (CRF), which will be diagnosed with a blood test. But another clue is the smell of the cats breath.
With the problem with the kidney, the cat feels uncomfortable with the 'taste' of urine in the stomach (the kidney can't process it as well as normal), so it needs to drink much more to wash it through as much as possible.
Muscle wastage is also a symptom.

Good luck, keep us posted.

With Orbit he started to gain weight massivly & the vet said it was his poor body retaining fluids so he was put on a couple of tablets to remove the fluids.
He was drinking massive amounts of fluids & I ended up with three litter trays at one point for his to use.
RIP Buddy.