- Jun 25, 2003
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First I will start off by telling you that I am a Vet assistant. I have an 18 year old mongrel tabby that has recently been diagnosed with hypertyroidism, which is a disease in which the thyriod gland enlarges and produces high amounts of T4 a hormone. Some of the symptoms of this disease are sudden weightloss with an increased appitite. Tiger presented these problems and I took her in with me to work, where I was interning at the time and we ran a geriatric panel on her. This turned up a 6.3 T4 level, which is not high but it is too high for a cat. Tiger is now on tapizol once a day for the rest of her life to regulate her T4 levels. I was just wondering if other pet owners here have gone through similar things with their animals. I have also gone through the loss of one of my cats, he was 14 and got a very fast progressing mouth cancer, though he has been gone for a year it still is a very tough thing to think about.