Chronic Constipation
Hi All
For the last 5 years my kitty has been struggling with chronic constipation. She's 10 years old and fully blind for some context. I took her to the vet when it first started and had full panel blood work and x-rays done. Initially, I was told it was probably a behavioral problem as all of the lab work came back as normal. I knew it wasn't because her behavior was so unlike her. She was in pain from trying to poo, yowling, and running around the house. She frequently strained and had blood in her stool. I took her back to the vet multiple times to have them give her enemas. But by this point it had gotten expensive and I couldn't afford to continue to take her nor get a second opinion.
I've since put her on a full high fiber wet food diet, I give her 1/4 teaspoon Miralax 2/3 times a day mixed in with her food (breakfast, snack, dinner). I recently took her back to the vet because she was vomiting often, sometimes just retching bile up and often wasn't interested in her food. They did blood work and x-rays again. Her kidney levels were slightly elevated and she was of course constipated. They gave her sub q fluids there. They said that the vomiting is likely due to her being constipated and in pain from it. They gave me laxalone and gabapentin.
The last time I had them do a full blood panel and a urine analysis. There were some elevated levels in some categories but the vet at the time said that everything looks good and there's nothing to indicate any underlying diseases. But there's obviously something wrong because of everything I said above
I'm just at a lost because she's been struggling like this for 5 years with no answer as to what's the cause and I'm just managing symptoms as they come up. I've recently been agonizing over the decision to have her put to sleep as her symptoms have continued to get worse over the years.
Does anyone have any insight on the vet visits and feedback I've been given? Is there anything I can do for her? I'm taking her back in June to have another urine analysis ran and maybe other tests depending on cost/vet recommendations.