Frustrated - 5 y/o F w/pyelonephritis & CKD
Hi everyone! First time actually taking the time to post on Reddit, but I’m very frustrated with the situation with our 5 year old female cat. Also sorry for the long post!
We took her to the ER vet on 2/27 where they diagnosed her with a UTI & sent us home with Clavamox to treat her. She seemed to be getting better over the couple weeks she was on it.
3/19 she started acting lethargic again. Got her into our normal vet they did in-house urinalysis, blood work, & x-rays. Those results showed swelling in her kidneys & they told us to take her to a speciality vet for hospitalization.
3/20 we take her to the ER specialty vet. Her CREA level was 8 something (don’t have paperwork handy for exact #s) and BUN was in the hundreds. They put her back in clavamox & gave her IV fluids. She was hospitalized for 48 hours & then they sent her home.
Once home she started crashing within 24 hours & she was re/hospitalized on 3/23. This time they do a full urine culture & find out the bacteria is resistant to clavamox & they start her on Cefpodoxime. She was hospitalized from 3/23-4/1. Her CREA came down to the 3s. They sent us home with antibiotics, phos binder & subQ fluids. She HATES all oral meds, but we are managing.
She was receiving 100ml twice a day, which we were able to reduce to once a day. She was on the mend. We were going in for rechecks and her CREA was holding in the low 4s, was found she didn’t need the phos binder and we finished her course of antibiotics.
Cut to this weekend 4/11 & she starts not eating again. I take her back to the vet. CREA is climbing back to 5.7 and the full urine culture they did right after finishing the antibiotics shows she still has bacteria & now it is resistant to the Cefpodoxime.
They are now recommending we re-hospitalize her, which we can’t do cause we’re basically out of money at this point for that. They are having us up her SubQ fluids again to 100ml twice a day, starting her on Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole & want to perform a serum test that will tell us how the antibiotic is working.
I’m honestly just so frustrated with the vet and the whole situation at this point. I’m exhausted and just looking for support/advice/recommedations. Curious is anyone has been through similar and had good outcomes?
Happy to answer any questions.
Thank for reading all that if you made it this far!