Vomiting cat Options

[meglane]

Hi everyone,

Ever since my cat Safffron got desexed, which was about 3 weeks ago, she's been vomiting after every meal. We had so many problems after desexing er which led to her staying a week at the vet getting better.
I've tried giving her different foods. Tuna, tinned food, A.D, raw meat, chicken mince, she even vomits up her dry food! What could possibly be wrong?!?
I have no idea what to do :(
I'm flat broke till next week as I've spent so much in vets bills in the last few weeks. My dog had to get blood work and x ray this week as well.
I'm stressing out big time.

Thanks everyone :(

[Catsfriend]

Oh dear, meglane, this does not sound good.

It is possible that the vet made a mistake during the surgery, and that you are entitled to a refund of your costs.

It happened to me once. I brought a cat to my vet with a bowel obstruction. That extremely precious and very expensive Birman breeding cat had swallowed a rubber toy which got stuck in her guts. Therefore, whenever she would eat anything, her body would force her to vomit it out again. Meglane, is it possible that something similar like that has happened to your cat?
We discovered the object in my cat's intestine by means of X-ray pictures. The task of the vet was to remove that obstruction in her bowels by surgery. I know that this is a different thing than removing a comparably large uterus, but it is also similar in many ways.

The vet left something behind inside her body - in my case it was a piece of the rubber toy which the vet had overlooked, in your case it could be something else, perhaps even something the vet or a nurse has accidentally dropped during the surgery. It happens all the time - even in surgeries on human beings.

Further, my vet did not stitch the wound together properly - which, as I know, is much harder to do on an extremely thin intestinal wall than on the much thicker abdominal wall, but it can still happen. The result was that body fluids were leaking through where they shouldn't and caused an infection in the abdominal space.
I spent more than $1,000 on the surgery and connected services of my first vet, and I spent about $1,500 the night two days after when my cat was screaming from pain so badly that I got on the phone, got another vet out of his bed after midnight and spent 4 hours with him in the clinic during the night, trying to save her life. She finally died, and I was left behind with more than $2,500 vet bills in debt.

My advice: If your cat should die - which I very much hope she will not - definitely have a post-mortem examination done on her body by another vet, in order to identify the cause of her death.

I had it done on my cat and it only cost $100 (one hundred well spent dollars). I asked the examining vet to give me his verdict in writing, which he did, and I sent a copy of it to the office of the first vet who had made the mistake. Some correspondence was exchanged with their insurance company, but finally I got about $2,000 of my expenses back or, respectively, did not have to pay most of the bills.

If an animal dies because of professional failure of your vet their insurance will reimburse you.

I don't know to what degree examinations for surgery mistakes are possible on living animals, but I suggest you approach another vet, who does not have a friendly relationship with your regular vet, and ask this question.

[CeilingCat]

That is horrible, I feel really sorry for you. Are you taking Saffron to the same vet you preformed the surgery?
Maybe you should take Saffron to another vet to get a different opinion? I think it would be very beneficial to get a different perspective especially in a serious situation like this. I know that if your looking for another vet in your area you can find a good one here . I really hope you can find a quick solution for your cat. Crossing my fingers for you that it's just got a stomach virus and nothing more. Thinking of you and Saffron

[CeilingCat]

Any word on your baby how it's doing? Did you get Saffron checked up again?

[fleabag]

She may be eating too fast , so smaller quantities, or try making wet food into something she laps up rather than eats ..
I had a cat do this when she had a massive hairball...I hope you've seen your vet and she's on the mend.

[chacha]

I can empathise with what you are going through. My cat Cha Cha has been throwing up, cant seem to keep food down. The vet took xrays and found now obstructions, did blood work and found nothing wrong, urine sample was good. She gave him fluid injection for dehydration and cerenia for nausea. He was ok for a couple of days. This morning he vomited his breakfast and last night he vomited a small amount of clear spit. I got the care credit to pay for this to help me stretch out the payment. Anyone have something like this happen, what is it!

[catzlife2]

Try feeding them smaller portions. My kitties throw up their dry food when they eat a lot and when they eat it fast.

[kennyc]

So no update ?
I would like to know as my kitty threw up on my bed the other night and then a tiny bit of liquid in the morning.
He sometime now throws up in his mouth and swollows it.

He is still eating and playing like normal so I would like to know how Saffron has been.