Osamenor
Staff member
My cat has vomited several times in the last 36 hours. One round had hairballs in it, but most had no clear cause. She's thrown up in the early morning both today and yesterday, and night before last. When she threw up night before last, she refused to eat anything, which threw off her medication schedule.
She has diabetes and is on insulin, which I can only give her when she has food in her system. She missed the dose night before last because of the vomiting and refusing to eat. She's also, currently, halfway through a three week course of antibiotics for a UTI, and those can only be taken with food, too. She missed an antibiotic dose night before last, again due to not eating.
The next morning, she ate and I medicated her, then she threw up again. Otherwise, though, she was acting normally. I called the vet and they suggested bringing her in for an emergency appointment, but also said that if she recovers and isn't acting lethargic, it's okay to wait and see. I took the wait and see tack because she's not lethargic, she's behaving like herself aside from the vomiting, and if anything, she has a little more energy than usual. For the last two days straight, she's been meowing at me in a very demanding tone, like she wants me to solve whatever's bugging her.
She didn't vomit last night, and she did eat and have her meds, but this morning, around 5 am, she did. That was the hairball round. A couple hours later, she threw up again, no hairballs this time. About an hour after that, she ate a little bit of breakfast, just enough that I was comfortable giving her insulin and antibiotic, but she hasn't been interested in food today otherwise. She's still been giving me those distress meows, though.
I've been through several rounds of vet appointments with her before, because she has multiple health issues and they've always been hard to diagnose. We have an appointment scheduled in a couple of weeks, to follow up on the results of the antibiotic treatment and rerun some tests she recently had. They thought for a while, this past year, that she might have kidney and/or thyroid problems, but the latest tests on that came back normal. At this point, I suspect a horary chart might give me more solid information than veterinary tests.
Interestingly, kitty and I are both represented by Mars in this chart. I take the eleventh house to be her house of health (fifth from sixth). Virgo on the cusp immediately made me think of the digestive system; I seem to remember Virgo being associated with gut microbes. Mercury in Libra... is that suggestive of kidneys, perhaps? Maybe a kidney problem? Maybe the antibiotic has upset her intestinal flora too much?
Mercury is definitely key here, since it rules H11 and it's applying opposition to Mars.
I'm shooting in the dark because I know very little about this. Help!
She has diabetes and is on insulin, which I can only give her when she has food in her system. She missed the dose night before last because of the vomiting and refusing to eat. She's also, currently, halfway through a three week course of antibiotics for a UTI, and those can only be taken with food, too. She missed an antibiotic dose night before last, again due to not eating.
The next morning, she ate and I medicated her, then she threw up again. Otherwise, though, she was acting normally. I called the vet and they suggested bringing her in for an emergency appointment, but also said that if she recovers and isn't acting lethargic, it's okay to wait and see. I took the wait and see tack because she's not lethargic, she's behaving like herself aside from the vomiting, and if anything, she has a little more energy than usual. For the last two days straight, she's been meowing at me in a very demanding tone, like she wants me to solve whatever's bugging her.
She didn't vomit last night, and she did eat and have her meds, but this morning, around 5 am, she did. That was the hairball round. A couple hours later, she threw up again, no hairballs this time. About an hour after that, she ate a little bit of breakfast, just enough that I was comfortable giving her insulin and antibiotic, but she hasn't been interested in food today otherwise. She's still been giving me those distress meows, though.
I've been through several rounds of vet appointments with her before, because she has multiple health issues and they've always been hard to diagnose. We have an appointment scheduled in a couple of weeks, to follow up on the results of the antibiotic treatment and rerun some tests she recently had. They thought for a while, this past year, that she might have kidney and/or thyroid problems, but the latest tests on that came back normal. At this point, I suspect a horary chart might give me more solid information than veterinary tests.
Interestingly, kitty and I are both represented by Mars in this chart. I take the eleventh house to be her house of health (fifth from sixth). Virgo on the cusp immediately made me think of the digestive system; I seem to remember Virgo being associated with gut microbes. Mercury in Libra... is that suggestive of kidneys, perhaps? Maybe a kidney problem? Maybe the antibiotic has upset her intestinal flora too much?
Mercury is definitely key here, since it rules H11 and it's applying opposition to Mars.
I'm shooting in the dark because I know very little about this. Help!