I believe in cats stone formation has to do with decreased water intake. Another reason cats should get wet food daily. That's my understanding anyways.I am not sure, however kidney issues are apparently very common in older cats but Syba is only 9. He apparently has small kidney/large kidney syndrome and a stone blocked the large kidney causing him to crash with Creatinine levels in the 1,800's when 400 is considered very high. He was a very sick little man very quickly.
Two days into his 'crash' the local Vet was pushing us to euthanize him but we know our boy and he was still fighting so we drove him 2 hours to a Cat Specialist who performed more tests, booked surgery at the Uni Vet [who had never done the surgery before but was prepared to give it a go] but miraculously Syba passed the stone on his own Day 5, the evening before surgery was booked and 3 days after we would have said our tearful goodbyes if we listened to the first Vet. Syba did not eat for 5 days and was on IV fluids for 8 days but we could see that he had not given up so we did not either. We are booked in for a follow up blood test in a week to check 'stable' levels.
When he came home his Creatinine was still in the 400's which has a prognosis of maybe months but the Specialist was confident that it would drop some more over a few weeks and we would then be talking years, with good management. I am optimistic as he has been home for 2 weeks now and is eating, drinking, playing with his little sister and we have seen marked improvement which is a good sign that the levels have hopefully dropped some more .. fingers crossed!
Now I just have to sell one of my kidneys on the black market to pay for it all!
