[Dailydrool] Heart Murmur

[Courtney Willard]

My impression with heart murmur's is that if you wait to start medication once there are symptoms, it may be too late to do any good.  My cat has a serious heart murmur and when we had him checked out with x-ray/ultrasound it turned out he had congestive heart failure.  He takes the same meds that humans would take - 4 in total, and has made a major improvement.  I know that cat's are not dogs, but our vet made it clear that if we saw symptoms with our cat (panting, coughing) we would probably not have a lot of time.  The good thing is that the meds are generic and very inexpensive.  I'm not trying to scare anyone - even my vet admitted that my cat could die of his heart murmur tomorrow, or live to be 19 - but if you can do something to help them out, it may not hurt.  Good luck!

Courtney
Momslave to Gilbert, Maggie and Franny

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