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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / August 2004FIP
Hi, Has anyone ever heard of anybody who ever had a cat survive full blown FIP? I'm in need of a miracle here. Tracy > Hi, > Has anyone ever heard of anybody who ever had a cat survive full blown FIP? > I'm in need of a miracle here. > Tracy I am very sorry, no, they do not survive. You can make their time comfortable but if they are in the full throes of it, with all the symptoms, I've yet to hear of one recovering. And believe me, I *prayed* for a miracle when my dear Burbank came down wiht FIP. But -- miracles do happen. LT >From: "Linda Terrell" >I am very sorry, no, they do not survive. You can make their time >comfortable >but if they are in the full throes of it, with all the symptoms, I've >yet to hear of >one recovering. >And believe me, I *prayed* for a miracle when my dear Burbank came >down wiht >FIP. >But -- miracles do happen. Linda , thank you for your response. I am so sorry about your little Burbank. I didnt get my miracle either. My Louie is gone too. << Linda , thank you for your response. I am so sorry about your little Burbank. I didnt get my miracle either. My Louie is gone too. >> Oh, no. I am terribly sorry, how sad. He will wait for you at the bridge. Candace (take the litter out before replying by e-mail) See my cats: http://photos.yahoo.com/maccandace "One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human." (Loren Eisely) >From: maccandace >Oh, no. I am terribly sorry, how sad. He will wait for you at the bridge. Thank you. I will have a little collection at the bridge. I lost louies brother to the same thing 2 weeks ago, and another of my older cats earlier this year. Not a good year to be one of my cats. BTW, Louie looked alot like your Abbey. >>From: maccandace > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >this year. Not a good year to be one of my cats. BTW, Louie looked alot like >your Abbey. I am so sorry for your loss. >Thank you. I will have a little collection at the bridge. I lost louies >brother to the same thing 2 weeks ago, and another of my older cats earlier >this year. Not a good year to be one of my cats. BTW, Louie looked alot >like >your Abbey. I am sorry for your losses. However, it would be an unusual coincidence for several cats in a household to develop FIP. In most cats, the relatively benign feline coronavirus will never mutate into FIP. I suspect there is something else going on there. FIP is notoriously hard to diagnose and very often misdiagnosed. > >Thank you. I will have a little collection at the bridge. I lost louies > >brother to the same thing 2 weeks ago, and another of my older cats earlier [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > else going on there. FIP is notoriously hard to diagnose and very often > misdiagnosed. i second this. You might want a second opinion. >From: "~*Connie >Yngver" <yngver@aol.comnospam> wrote in message >tdeanne1955@aol.com (Tracy) wrote: >Thank you. I will have a little collection at the bridge. I lost louies >> >brother to the same thing 2 weeks ago, and another of my older cats >earlier >> >this year. Not a good year to be one of my cats. BTW, Louie looked alot >> >likeyour Abbey >I am sorry for your losses. However, it would be an unusual coincidence >for >> several cats in a household to develop FIP. In most cats, the relatively >benign >> feline coronavirus will never mutate into FIP. I suspect there is something >> else going on there. FIP is notoriously hard to diagnose and very often >> misdiagnosed >i second this. You might want a second opinion. The older cat did not die of FIP. The two brothers did, or so I was told by the vets ( 2) that saw them. The kittens came from a shelter, and 3 of them from that group of kittens have been put down so far. The kittens were healthy in appearance but had persistant "colds", and gooky eyes when they were still at the shelter. They finally were released, and one of them got gooky eyes again for a brief period, and they both were sneezy again, so back on antibiotics they went. All seemed well for a little while until one of them seemed to be getting bonier all the time rather than filling out. He got skinnier, all but his belly with got bigger all the while. I was called by the shelter and told it was time to go get them fixed.....and I made an appiontment to get the one kitten looked at first because I was concerned that something wasnt right with him.. By the time I got in with him, he was actually wasted, and his belly was bulged out so badly, and his personality had taken a hike...he was so bad off....I had him put down that day. The other one didnt show signs for another week and then he went in the same direction. I cant really get another opinion because the animals are dead and buried.....does this sound like FIP to you all? I just lost my Clancy to FIP. FIP is the mutated corona virus that the cat's immune system can't handle. My vet said it isn't uncommon for sibling or cats from the same parentage to be susceptible. > >From: "~*Connie > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > I cant really get another opinion because the animals are dead and > buried.....does this sound like FIP to you all? > I cant really get another opinion because the animals are dead and >buried.....does this sound like FIP to you all? Maybe, but it could be a lot of other things too. That's the thing about FIP and why it's so hard to diagnose. The only way you can get a definitive diagnosis is by analysis of tissue/fluid (and often this is done post-mortem) and even in those cases, at least 70 percent of cases in which FIP is strongly suspected and tissue or fluid is sent for analysis, the lab results are negative for FIP. >From: yngver >Maybe, but it could be a lot of other things too. That's the thing about FIP >and why it's so hard to diagnose. The only way you can get a definitive [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >suspected and tissue or fluid is sent for analysis, the lab results are >negative for FIP. Thank you, I am starting to be more than a little ticked off that both of my kittens are dead on the advice of my vets because they had the incurrable FIP. I cant figure out why they made no attempt at all to work with my kittens. > Thank you, I am starting to be more than a little ticked off that both of my > kittens are dead on the advice of my vets because they had the incurrable FIP. > I cant figure out why they made no attempt at all to work with my kittens. My vet diagnosed my Rowan with FIP nearly two years ago (I think it was...). The vet was ready to put her down. I decided to wait and see if she got better on her own (with antibiotics, a sub-q, and lots of TLC) b/c I just didn't believe that was what was wrong with her. She's fine now. She has a recurring URI of some kind (we think herpesvirus) that she kicks on her own after a few days sometimes and other times needs a little antibiotic help with, but for the most part, she's healthy, happy, and quite alive. She gets URI symptoms once or twice a year. A lot like me. *grins* FIP wasn't what was wrong with her, either. I cannot stress enough to people that vets, like doctors and other humans, are sometimes wrong. It happens.  Signature-- ~kaeli~ A man's home is his castle..., in a manor of speaking. http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace >FIP wasn't what was wrong with her, either. >I cannot stress enough to people that vets, like doctors and other humans, >are sometimes wrong. It happens. Personally I would be very reluctant to accept a diagnosis of FIP since most of the time, that isn't what's wrong, and FIP is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Of course I only know this now after having been scared by a vet a few years ago, who suggested that our cat's case of fever resistant to antibiotics might be FIP. I then did quite a bit of research on FIP. Of course our cat did not have FIP and her fever did respond to a specific antibiotic. After that, my own choice would always be to pursue other diagnoses if a vet suggested FIP because it usually is something else. Unfortunately with some vets the tendency is to quit looking for other options once they suspect FIP because there isn't a treatment for FIP (or hasn't been, until recently--just read about some trials in which a percentage of cats were actually successfully treated for FIP). >> FIP wasn't what was wrong with her, either. >> I cannot stress enough to people that vets, like doctors and other humans, [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > until recently--just read about some trials in which a percentage of cats were > actually successfully treated for FIP). One thing to remember though is that with very little kittens,even if it were pneumonia (the only other thing I can think of with fluid build up) it might have been just as devestating. Maybe they could have pursued a more agressive action, but kittens who are sick are difficult to help recover if they reach a certain point.
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