I'm not familiar with the shots, only the pills. I did have  a lady
freak out on me when she heard Kira was getting prednisone. She told me
it would give diabetes. I figured I was okay with that since I had
already done research on anemia and the success rate was 50/50 which is
really not good. And I had seen her her down on the first treatment and
improve on the prednisone. I did go back and do more research on a link
with diabetes. I found several sites that said it was a possibility,
but it seemed to be more of an unknown that still needed actual data to
confirm or reject.

Not for sure, but it looks like Kidney failure. Looking back, there was
more urine in the litterbox. Unfortunately, we have multiple boxes, and
they all seem to pee in the same corner of each box, so I though the
one box (the only one Kira was using at the time) was getting more
business from the other cats. I didn't think to ask if the other boxes
were declining in business, and I don't scoop all the boxes myself.

She was also hanging around the water bowl more, but I thought she was
just conserving engery as she was between the water bowl and litterbox.
Looking back, it makes sense and fits with kidney failure.

But at the same time, the bloodwork gave normal numbers for creatine
and bun, so there were no warning flags there. And when I looked up
kidney failure and anemia, it only referred to non-regenerative anemia.
Kira had regenerative, and was nowhere near the cutoff mark for the two
types. So, the behavioral symptoms and dehydration point to kidney
failure, but the bloodwork does not.

It just wasn't an obvious diagnosis, and there wasn't enough time to
catch it. I do wish that we had kept her on the prednisone at the lower
dosage or maybe retested her after a couple weeks instead of waiting a
month. But I can only file that away for future situations or advice
for somebody else when they need it.

We did have another scare yesterday, but it turned out okay. We got
back from errands, and my mom discovered that her cat was breathing
very loudly. Sounded bad. It was 4:45, and our vet is 20-30 minutes
away. My mom called, and they normally stop taking walk-ins at 5, but
said they would take her if she could get there at 5:15. She witnessed
an accident on the way and left her name and number and rushed to get
to the vet in time. Turns out she is having a allergies. We are
remodeling the house, and the new room had the ceiling and walls mudded
and sanded. So, there is a lot of dust all over. So, she has some meds
to help her, and my mom started wiping the walls down and mopping the
floors to get rid of the dust. It's a solid coat of white on the floor
in the new section.

So, the prognosis is good, though we will be watching carefully. The
vet couldn't hear any problems with her lungs, so it appears to be just
in her nose. But Kira started with a respiratory infection that looked
like allergies back in June.  I know it really scared my mom. The loss
of Kira is so fresh right now, that even something small is potentially
very bad in our eyes.

Wow, our problem started with suspected allergies too. That cleared up,
but I much rather would have continued with allergies than the problems
he got next.

Rhonda