u/aheckinghallway

he actually only has his front teeth up to his canines so this is pretty much the full view

So my cat has had asthma for over a year or so now. The first thing he was prescribed was fluticasone, which has done absolutely nothing in terms of mitigating the side effects (110mcg 2x per day) and he would still get attacks around 3x a day and I go through albuterol like it's nobody's business. I vacuum extremely often, have changed to 4 different litters, and eliminated scents (including using vinegar and alcohol to clean) to no avail. He takes his inhalers genuinely well and I can get a good 6-10 breaths from him every time. He's been receiving as closely as I can to the regimen for about a year as well.

Talked to his vet, tried all of the antihistamines I could find that didn't have extra flavoring (basically Allegra and Benadryl) and it's done nothing

I was given oral prednisolone (2.5mg tapered from 2x a day) and it's the only thing that actually works. Talked to his vet and he stated that if it works we may as well keep him on it and continually increase the space between doses (currently doing every other day for a week or so and moving it to every 3 days, etc).

To be honest I don't exactly want him to be on long term oral steroids because of the very well documented side effects of it and I'm kind of at my wit's end about it.

tldr fluticasone isn't working despite my cat properly receiving it and idk if I should change something about it or if it just doesn't work for my boy