I have a 4 year old male cat who has had one previous bout of feline cystitis. He has been fine for about two years. However, tonight, in the past hour he has shown signs of it again. Straining to urinate, crying, urinating only a very small amount, and he also seems warm etc. I was petting him about two hours ago for quite awhile and he seemed fine then, this is sudden. I know prompt vet care is critical but I can not get him to the vet until the morning. Does anyone have any advice to keep him comfortable until the morning?

for now i would make him comfortable and keep an eye on him.. give him lots of attention. i hope he feels better..have his favorite things around him.. goodluck at the vet!

I have been tired — I mean really tired for a year now. I’m a 29 yr old female. Last April I had a miscarriage. I also had Mono, CMV, and H1N1 early last year. Ok? So I was a mess, basically. Since then I have been so tired I could just cry. My doctor has done and redone my bloodwork: CBC, thyroid, iron, metabolic panel, vitamin levels. One time my results showed hypothyroidism but when the test was repeated it did not show up. I am not depressed. I was depressed a long time ago, but now I am on Zoloft and it is helping a lot. I use NuvaRing for birth control. I was on both of these medications and doing well before the tiredness started. I have chronic asthma and interstitial cystitis, both of which are fairly well controlled. Over Christmas I started vomiting blood and having bloody diarrhea (sorry TMI) and spent 4 days in the hospital. They aren’t really sure what’s up. They got me to stop bleeding and rehydrated and I went home. I’ve been having light bleeding like my period since then, even though I am using birth control. I have started taking kelp (for the iodine), vitamin D, niacin, and a B-complex vitamin daily. I can not take a multivitamin anymore because it really hurts my stomach even if I take it with a meal. I can easily sleep 11 hours a night plus a nap if I can get away with it. I do moderate exercise daily. I eat very healthily and drink plenty of water. Any help, insight, advice, tips, suggestions, or potential remedies are greatly appreciated!!!

Did this start after the miscarriage? If so, you may want to look into celiac disease or a wheat/gluten intolerance. Sometimes it takes something dramatic (like a miscarriage) for the disease to kick in. It can affect everything that you have mentioned and the tiredness and a HUGE one. I also had problems with the thyroid showing problems and then it was fine, I ended having a hysterectomy because they didn’t find the celiac fast enough. If you are going back to your doctor soon, you can ask him to send you to get the blood tests for it or go to an allergist and get tested for food allergies…but I will tell you that the tests for celiac disease give many false negatives (even the biopsies)…so the best and quickest way to figure it out is to take ALL the gluten our of your system and see how you feel and do. It takes months to get totally better, but you will feel a difference very quickly, sometimes within 24 hours. I like to tell my clients to give it a full 3 weeks to see how you do.
Good luck!!

also, how long would you advise me until i have sex again? (cos of the cystitis)

thanks! x

Use condoms the entire time you are taking antibiotics and for a week after you stop taking them. Continue to take your birth control every day, even when you are on the antibiotics. Ask your doctor about returning to sexual activity, since he/she is the only one that can give you an answer specific to your condition.

At the start of the new year, I contracted a Urinary Tract Infection because I started having sex with a new partner. We both got the infection at the same time, it was honeymoon cystitis.

I went to my doctor and he put me on a course of amoxcyllin, but this didnt clear it up. He then put me on a stronger medication, and it still didnt clear up.

Since then, my problems have become a lot worse. I started to get an unbearable pain in my left testicle and up my right side. My stomach also became very tender, and I never had the urge to go for a wee.

I’ve had to have scans to see if anything was wrong, and the radiographer said that after I had been for a wee, my bladder hadnt actually emptied itself at all.

This was all a couple of weeks ago. Now, my urinary problems have cleared, but I am still left with an unbearable pain in my groin. This has now spread to the shaft of my penis, and I’m in complete dispair. I have a consultation with a urologist in two weeks, but I dont think I can wait that long!

Has anybody been through this themselves?? and if so, what hapens from here?

i have not heard of anything like that before. But i would say that you should try and hold on until that urologist appointment. And if you cant, then i guess going to the ER would be the only option. Sorry to not have any real info.

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