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My kitten is extremely sick and I'm running out of time and options. I apologize that this isn't a foster situation, but this seems to be the only group I get genuine replies and help from. I adopted a seemingly healthy 12 week old kitten 5 days ago with all vaccines / shots/ etc. fully updated. She has been a super sweet perfect angel. The first day, she was non stop purring and making biscuits.

Over these past 5 days, we've had non stop vet visits. She's been refusing to eat, and now refusing to drink as well as having severe diarrhea and vomit. The third night is when I noticed worms in her stool which I collected and brought to the vet the next day for testing. She was dewormed again, given fluids, b12, anti nausea, etc. and we were then sent home. This was a huge red flag to me, seeing as the vets kept sending home a kitten who hadn't eaten for multiple days.

After giving her some time for the treatments to work, she vomited again and has continued refusing to eat, as well as strange behavior in the litter box such as vocalizing and switching positions. Thanks to another commenter on here who helped tremendously, we began syringe feeding her which was previously impossible.

This morning I took her to the vet again, but the bills kept piling up and I couldnt afford them. I'm a 22 year old recent graduate, and I also felt like these vets just weren't listening to my concerns or treating the most dire issue which is that she hasn't eaten for several days and needs nutritional support. They sent me to another vet recommended by the rescue organization we got her from for more affordability.

I brought my mom with me because she's kind of a Karen and I thought her skills could be useful in getting someone to hear me out. This vet showed the genuine concern for my kitten that I'd been hoping for, and decided not to keep giving her more fluids and meds and just hope they work and send me on my way. I expressed all of my concerns, including that I cannot keep syringe feeding her forever. It's extremely difficult because of how feisty she is, it's keeping me up at all hours of the night, and I haven't been able to get a single thing done for nearly a week because of the care I must give this kitten. I'm so stressed out and incredibly emotional over this. I can't even imagine how stressed out this poor kitten is between all the vet visits and forced feedings.

Like I said, my mom is a Karen, and requested that my kitten stay over night and receive nutritional support. This vet doesn't do over night hospitalization, but decided that they will for my kitten due to her condition. The rescue organization and my mom are helping me cover these costs luckily, so she was worked up today with a blood test, another fecal test, and an X ray. Essentially nothing but the worms that are almost done being treated had come up in these tests and I'm becoming extremely concerned. It feels like there's no explanation for this, and I'm at such a loss. My poor kitten has become so sleepy and skinny despite 4 vet visits full of treatments and tests. She was originally 2.4 pounds, and is now 1 pound 15 ounces.

My heart is broken for this little kitten who seemingly just has worms but has not been receptive of any of the insane amount of treatments and deworming she's been through. She's at the vet for tonight being carefully treated and worked up, but I'm so scared to receive a call that she won't make it through this. Part of me thinks she can't heal until I've named her, which sounds insane but I am literally going insane. Her name is currently Betty which I adore, but I'm also leaning towards Sabrina or Daphne. Please help me name this sweet baby and give me any reassurance/ tips/ information that you can offer. I appreciate you all <3

It's me again. Still desperate. After several days and vet visits of my new 12 week old kitten not eating, I found long, pink ish white worms in her stool and she was dewormed for a second time by the vet today and a fecal test was sent off. I'm still extremely concerned with her eating habits, but I'm also concerned about the exposure to my 4 year old resident cat.

While I've kept them separated for 95% of the time after the adoption, I thought my kitten was having trouble being by herself and that I needed to speed up the introduction process. They haven't come in direct contact with each other, but my resident cats litter box is where I discovered the worms. I'm unsure whether or not my cat had been anywhere near the scene of the crime at all, and I'm pretty sure she never was, but it is important to note.

Seeing as my kitten won't eat and has worms, she's been experiencing very loose stool which, in the most pleasant way possible, naturally gives her a crusty butt. I'm concerned about her fecal matter being anywhere she may have laid down or sat. Is there any peace of mind in this??

Thanks to a commenter from another post I made on here, I have been able to syringe feed her, but she is still refusing to willingly eat. As you can probably tell, I'm extremely stressed out between this and my resident cats exposure. It's been 8 hours since the deworming, and I'm trying to give the meds a chance but I can't see the light at all you guys. Like at all. I'm going on day 4 of vet visits. She just threw up the fluids and food all over the place and I feel like a psychopath trying to balance that and changing in and out of my clothes and chaotically cleaning everything to prevent exposure to my resident cat. I think my washing machine is about to explode. This series of events literally has me crying through my lexapro.

I urgently need help. I adopted a 12 week old kitten 4 days ago and she has refused to eat (for the most part) ever since. Day 1 she threw up a bit and had diarrhea but I figured she was just stressed out so I let her relax that day. Day 2 I took her to the vet where she was given anti nausea meds, fluids, and meds to help harden her stool.

Day 3 is where things took a change. I saw no improvement so I took her to a different vet (original vet is closed on Sundays) and they gave her more fluids, prescription food, meds to help ease her stomach and intestines, and more meds for diarrhea as well as some deworming medication for Giardia and Coccidia. That night, I still saw no improvement although I did finally manage to syringe feed her a bit.

Due to the syringe feeding, she finally used the litter box where I saw long, pink ish white worms in her stool. Most likely roundworms. This morning I took her to the vet again along with the stool in a bag and they sent that off to get tested, gave her more dewormer, more fluids, and a b12 shot. We've been back from the vet for about 5 hours now, and I managed to syringe feed her about 20Ml which is more than I've ever gotten her to eat. She just vomited all of the fluids and food back up.

I'm at a loss. I've spent well over $1000 trying to fix this and none of it is working. I understand she needs time to heal, but she's a little kitten who hasn't eaten hardly anything for 4 days and has worms and I'm really freaking out. I can't afford another vet bill, I'm 22 and I just graduated college. Please please help me so I can heal her in the most cost effective way!! I've tried EVERYTHING. And I mean everything. Please please please help.

For context and background history:
She is up to date on vaccines
She was spayed 6 days ago
She is drinking water normally and otherwise bright and responsive
She was dewormed with Dronal before the adoption
She was treated for ear mites before I got her
She was originally 2.4 pounds, now 2.08 pounds
I have a resident cat in the house, but am keeping them separated due to the worms