Teeth Problems in 4 yr old kitty

[jenwrenfer]

Hello all,

I'm new here and just wanted to post and see if anyone had an experience like I am currently having.

I have a 4 year old kitty with a history of mouth pain, extremely inflamed gums. She has an autoimmune response to any amount of tartar, etc., on her teeth and her mouth goes crazy. They treated her with steroids for a while, but after the way her mouth looked last week we are going in to have most of her teeth removed tomorrow. Has anyone had this done? What was the recovery period like?

My second question is that her blood sugar was really high when they took her blood at the vet. They said stress or the steroids can cause this, but sometimes this will resolve itself on it's own once she can resume eating a normal diet (she only eats baby food right now). Has anyone (hopefully) had this happen?

I can't treat all her problems at once, so I figure I will deal with the teeth, give her a couple of weeks and she how she is doing. It's hard to discern symptoms when so much is going on at one time, but she doesn't have the increased thirst or some of the other signs of diabetes.

Anyway, just fishing and hoping maybe someone has seen this before.

Take care all~! And wish me and Cleo luck for tomorrow~!

[halaroo]

I'm sorry about Cleo. I've never had to deal with anything like this, but I just wanted to wish you luck. Keep us posted on her recovery.

[vene]

and welcome! Hoping everything went well as planned. Sorry, I don't have experience like yours. Monty and Pumpkin had to have a few teeth removed a couple of years ago due to cracked teeth and cavities. Monty recovered in one day and Pumpkin in 2. The amount of teeth made no difference in Pumpkin as she never did chomp her food. She prefers to swallow them whole. I feed her both dry and wet foods. Good luck with everything.

[Chessmind]

Hi. How is your kitty doing?

[jenwrenfer]

Hi all~!

Well, it's going okay so far. Cleo had all of her teeth removed, and we had a rough night last night. She's in a Elizabethan collar for two weeks, and since she was disoriented last night from the anesthesa we had to confine her in the laundry room. She was none too pleased, so my husband and I, needless to say, didn't get much sleep.

Today is better though. I'm able to let her have the run of the apartment with my other kitty when one of us is home to supervise. My other kitty is a little scared of the e-collar, so when we leave they each get two rooms to themselves. This works out since I can leave out the dry food for the other cat when we are gone.

Cleo can eat and drink with the e-collar on. They recommended we not take it off because it will only get harder to put it back on each time. I took it off while she ate once today to get some of the dried bloody salivia (eww!) out of it for her, but I can just wipe it down when she finishes eating from now on.

She is eating like a horse, which I can't believe just a day after surgery and 60+ stitches. But you really wouldn't even know it. It kills me to leave the collar on her all the time but I know if she were to get at those stitches she would really be in trouble.

So needless to say I'm a little tired after my 12 hour day yesterday and sleepless night, but hopefully we are on the road to recovery. We of course have non-refundable tickets out of town for 5 days next week but I think what we'll do is just keep them seperated while we are gone, my mother will be down to feed them and the like. Although they will miss each other for the few days I think it will be easier for her to recover without the other one bugging her all the time.

Thanks for the information and encouragement~!

[Bente]

I'm glad to hear your kitty seems to be doing fine

[Chessmind]

Hi. Thamks for the update. I'm glad she is doing well. She sure has been through a lot.