1. Your pet's name: Selene
2. Approximate age: 9 months
3. Sex: F
4. Neutering status: intact
5. Breed: DS tux/tabby
6. Approximate weight: 5.6 lbs
7. What's their BEAM (behavior, energy, appetite, mood) restless, pacing, caterwauling often, will also play normally, sleep and cuddle, sweet to me but increasingly aggressive with anyone other than myself and my two children. Overgrooming significantly on legs, tail, etc. Unkempt fur on other areas that aren’t being over groomed. Eats about two cans per day, but has continued losing weight. (From 7 lbs, down to 5.6 since November.)
8. Diet: she has scratched her ears/face/chin area since the day she found us in a parking lot when she was approx 8 weeks old. No fleas, no mites per vet exams, so I suspected food allergies. She has always been on grain free food, but I am now doing a diet for her of only canned 97% rabbit or a combo of canned rabbit/mice. She has been on this for approx 4 weeks. Tried a mouse only diet for around 2 weeks, she could eat up to 10 small ones per day, but the fur from them coupled with her over grooming was causing too many large hairballs so I stopped.
9. Vaccination history / exposure to toxins, other medication: no vaxxes, I was put on NP thyroid myself for an under active thyroid shortly before her hyperactive symptoms started. She was very interested in my armpits and was always trying to lick/nuzzle/etc and I know I excrete some of this thyroid med there as the scent has changed significantly. I can’t help but feel like this exposure was some kind of catalyst and the timing lines up perfectly.
10. Primary problem, when it began and if there was anything else happening around that time:
She started with heat cycles around 11/8. She started seeming more restless, but I thought it was a result of the hormones. She has continued to seem restless often, caterwauling, over grooming to the point of bare spots on her legs and progressively thinner fur on underside of tail, losing weight, becoming less tolerant of other people and not tolerating the vet whatsoever, etc. Again, looking back this all started after I had been on my NP thyroid for a month or so and she had become very preoccupied with my armpits vs not anyone else’s at all.
11. Is the condition better or worse from exercise, heat, cold, time of day, certain foods, emotional upset, being touched, excitement, etc? Consistent, but again, with anyone other than the 3 of us who live in her household, she immediately hisses and has gotten far more aggressive.
12. Has any diagnostic work been done? Diagnosis if available (you can attach your diagnostic tests to the post if you have them.)
We went to the vet yesterday to attempt bloodwork to test her thyroid levels as her holistic vet feels as I do that it is thyroid.
I am still pretty unsettled from the visit and questioning returning there as they took her, knowing I’m the only person she is calm with and she isn’t feeling well, and they fought her for almost 40 minutes without letting me come in. What i heard was wild. The vet and tech were not able to ever get blood, and their only answer is to sedate her to do so. It was extremely traumatic for her, her heart was racing for an hour after, I am still pretty livid to be honest.
I’d like to try Holistic/homeopathic options for thyroid first to see if that settles her enough to do the bloodwork without sedating her tiny body.
13. Current and previous treatment.
14. Other health concerns.
I went to book a phone consult but they were all at least a week out. I’m just not sure how dire this is?
@Dr. Jeff
@Dr. Christina
2. Approximate age: 9 months
3. Sex: F
4. Neutering status: intact
5. Breed: DS tux/tabby
6. Approximate weight: 5.6 lbs
7. What's their BEAM (behavior, energy, appetite, mood) restless, pacing, caterwauling often, will also play normally, sleep and cuddle, sweet to me but increasingly aggressive with anyone other than myself and my two children. Overgrooming significantly on legs, tail, etc. Unkempt fur on other areas that aren’t being over groomed. Eats about two cans per day, but has continued losing weight. (From 7 lbs, down to 5.6 since November.)
8. Diet: she has scratched her ears/face/chin area since the day she found us in a parking lot when she was approx 8 weeks old. No fleas, no mites per vet exams, so I suspected food allergies. She has always been on grain free food, but I am now doing a diet for her of only canned 97% rabbit or a combo of canned rabbit/mice. She has been on this for approx 4 weeks. Tried a mouse only diet for around 2 weeks, she could eat up to 10 small ones per day, but the fur from them coupled with her over grooming was causing too many large hairballs so I stopped.
9. Vaccination history / exposure to toxins, other medication: no vaxxes, I was put on NP thyroid myself for an under active thyroid shortly before her hyperactive symptoms started. She was very interested in my armpits and was always trying to lick/nuzzle/etc and I know I excrete some of this thyroid med there as the scent has changed significantly. I can’t help but feel like this exposure was some kind of catalyst and the timing lines up perfectly.
10. Primary problem, when it began and if there was anything else happening around that time:
She started with heat cycles around 11/8. She started seeming more restless, but I thought it was a result of the hormones. She has continued to seem restless often, caterwauling, over grooming to the point of bare spots on her legs and progressively thinner fur on underside of tail, losing weight, becoming less tolerant of other people and not tolerating the vet whatsoever, etc. Again, looking back this all started after I had been on my NP thyroid for a month or so and she had become very preoccupied with my armpits vs not anyone else’s at all.
11. Is the condition better or worse from exercise, heat, cold, time of day, certain foods, emotional upset, being touched, excitement, etc? Consistent, but again, with anyone other than the 3 of us who live in her household, she immediately hisses and has gotten far more aggressive.
12. Has any diagnostic work been done? Diagnosis if available (you can attach your diagnostic tests to the post if you have them.)
We went to the vet yesterday to attempt bloodwork to test her thyroid levels as her holistic vet feels as I do that it is thyroid.
I am still pretty unsettled from the visit and questioning returning there as they took her, knowing I’m the only person she is calm with and she isn’t feeling well, and they fought her for almost 40 minutes without letting me come in. What i heard was wild. The vet and tech were not able to ever get blood, and their only answer is to sedate her to do so. It was extremely traumatic for her, her heart was racing for an hour after, I am still pretty livid to be honest.
I’d like to try Holistic/homeopathic options for thyroid first to see if that settles her enough to do the bloodwork without sedating her tiny body.
13. Current and previous treatment.
14. Other health concerns.
I went to book a phone consult but they were all at least a week out. I’m just not sure how dire this is?
@Dr. Jeff
@Dr. Christina
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