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I'll try and keep this short and succinct, but I'm happy to provide more info if required.
Our 19 year old, Tiggles, had a seizure 2 months ago. We've discovered a bleed on the brain and a mass on her liver. As bad as that sounds, she's not in any pain. Seriously, we wouldn't force her to live without good quality of life.
After some tests and bloodwork, the current prevailing theory is secondary hyperaldosteronism. While we cannot test for this specifically within Australia (I think we can test for hyperaldosteronism, but not whether it's primary or secondary?) Her specialist says its rare, but that's what we're treating for.
We have to give her 4 physical pills (1x thyroid, 3/4 a blood pressure tablet, and half a potassium tablet) and we're failing miserably.
Because she's not consistently taking the thyroid one, she's become increasingly more aggressive and resistant, and every method we try seems to work once or twice and then works no more.
So far we’ve tried hiding it in every possible combination of food, which works once and then she refuses to go near that food ever again. We’ve tried whole, dissolved, pill pockets, the pill popper, putting the pill in by hand, two people, one person, etc., all of which do not work anymore as she fights back and/or flat out refuses to swallow the pills until everything starts to dissolve in her mouth, she “chokes” and we have to let her go. While not flawless, I’m sure our technique is adequate, particularly as it seems to work for a few days without issue until Tiggles cottons on to what is happening.
We have only had her for 4 years so we don't have a huge history with her. We're really at our wits' end. We've watched every tutorial but we just can't get her to do swallow her pills.
Do you have any suggestions? We've discussed with our vet the potential to administer her meds transdermally (creating a paste and then rubbing it on her ears to be absorbed) but there's a) no data saying this is actually effective, b) not an option to do this for one of her pills and c) it's twice the price.
We're starting to lose hope - the medication is doing wonders, but it’s virtually impossible to get into Tiggles now, and she’s beginning to become more stressed and generally wary of being around us - and we definitely don't like stressing out a 19 year old cat with high BP :(
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