Dr. Becker on Feline Hyperesthesia
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2018
- Dr. Karen Shaw Becker, a proactive and integrative wellness veterinarian, talks about a very strange disorder in cats called hyperesthesia, also known as rippling skin syndrome or twitchy cat syndrome.
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This like 100X more helpful than any vet I have ever seen. Why can't vets be more like this?
BECAUSE THEYRE PAID BY THE PETFOOD INDUSTRY.
@@laurenb916 bingo...shills for the pet food industry and pharma
I guess because compassion isnt usually good business
I was just thinking that.
I have worked for 4 different veterinary hospitals and each and everyone was just as disappointing as the next!!
it was a business to them.. just like human doctors.. no different 😞
And I don't even want to tell you how many mistakes I witnessed due to complete negligence by the staff.
And do they learn from those mistakes?? Nope!
All I can say is please please PLEASE pay attention to EVERYTHING .. take notes (don't feel weird or embarrassed, this is your animal health and life!) ask questions and if you don't understand something, ask again.. do your own research, get second and even third opinions before agreeing to any type of aggressive treatment or any type of treatment at all honestly..
My heart goes out to all those who have a kitty that is sick. ❤️ 🐈
This was the most helpful video I have found on RUclips about this issue.
Thank you
An extraordinarily helpful and calming video - thank you so much for taking the time to put it together and share.
My big boy "Squishie" has been dealing with this (diagnosed by a vet) since he was a kitten and is now 8 years old. He's a sweetheart if you pet his head, but from the ribs down, he can (and will) bite/claw you. We've learned over the years how to pet him, and even my 6 year old granddaughter tells company how to pet him ("don't hurt our Squishie" lol). It can be difficult but it's manageable. We recently started him on cbd's from the company Ellevet and are crossing our fingers he gets some relief. Good luck to all the fur kid parents learning how to help/manage their babies' hyperasthesia symptoms ! 🐾❤️
Any luck? My cat has this problem and I hate it for her
Thank you SO much. This was incredibly helpful.
She’s such an awesome Vet!
I have a client that will find this SO helpful because her cat is being investigated for Hyperesthesia.
I think my cat has a mild version of this. She doesn't rocket around and scratch herself to bits, but she has the skin twitching, she avoids grooming herself and hates back scritches, and when it happens she'll bite at the area for a second.
Does your cat still have it ?
Very helpful, Dr. Becker. Thank you!
Our cat does this since a couple of days. Somehow she has now fear of the outside. We noticed when she approaches our patio door and she hears or smells the garden she gets a seizure every time. When the patio door is closed she is fine. The thing is she is a outdoor cat and very active. Now she stays inside and seems to have no energy for playing/hunting at all. It's like she is a completely other cat now. Breaks out hearts.
Exactly the same with my cat, she used to be outside all the time and play all the time but now she just stays inside and has these attacks. I see youve posted this 1 year ago, do you have any thing that worked for your cat, thanks in advance!
@@conradserrus1443 I'm afraid no. Our cat got somehow used to it. She get's it from time to time (we found out it ist mostly flies that scare her) but it only lasts a minute or less.
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Mine did the same. Gave gabapentine for a few weeks and he finally got back to his normal self. That was 11mos ago. Flash forward to today AND ITS BACK! Immediately gave him a gabapentin and his food, and it definitely helps to chilling out
@@houstonwheeler6854is he good now?
Thank you for the info! Incredibly thorough.
My cat has Hyperesthesia, IBD, and is deaf… it’s rough. This video gave me immense comfort in this newly diagnosed syndrome, thank you.
you are great I Love your videos - extremely helpful clear informative and compassionate xxx
Thinking of taking in a foster with this condition, and this was so helpful. Thank you.
god bless you
Some just doctor need to know about this more. Good job. I emailed this to our clinic.
Great information. Very thorough. Thank you very much!
Wow, thanks for explain this all in great detail Dr. Becker!
A very helpful video about this syndrome. Thank you!
This was so informative and helpful. Thank you so much. Now I know what’s really bothering my kitty. God bless
Thank you so much, she has got all the symptoms you said.
Your video has helped very much, I will ask my vet about this condition.
Thank you for your though information ❤️🙏
Im not recommending anyone do this, just something I’ve found fascinating: years ago in college I had a roommate who smoked weed out the window. My cat would always run out and get her face seemingly wanting some too. I mean she was aggressive, she would jump on the back of the couch to be as close as possible. My cat appeared to get a second hand effects. Mind you, she is a rescue had frequent and intense hyperesthesia episodes back then. She would be totally calm for the night but still herself. Over time my cat and I built trust and when I see her having a moment I talk calmly to her and pet her shoulders. I have a hunch this is trauma related since she has a bent tail as well. Nowadays she’ll actually run to me for comfort 💗 No cannabis needed lol! (Please dont smoke around pets)
A tremendous wealth of knowledge shared here. Thank you.
My two cats have this. They're mother and daughter. Two others I had from the same family also had it - one fell into the pool during a seizure and drowned almost two weeks ago (witnessed by other people - I was not there)...
My two girls have seizures every day now. My heart is broken and anguished from so much tragedy. I love my cats possibly too much and want to help them but nothing is working yet.
I feel the pain of you other cat parents with afflicted kitties...
Just want to leave an update in case it might help someone: Since giving my mom cat (daughter cat no longer has any symptoms, got better on her own after I moved to new place - no clue why) Zylkene every day in food, she now only has seizures every three days or so. Going to switch to grain-free diet as recommended, hopefully that will help even more... Every three days (or less) is still so stressful, and my poor baby loses bladder control every time...
@@oasisranae wait so I'm confused , seizure causes hypenesia or whatever this condition is, or is it the other way around
@IIIISai sometimes cats with this condition have seizures. The seizures are a symptom.
I should mention also... I read that this hyperesthesia may be caused by crystals in their urine. So I bought some Purina cat food, the one designed for urinary tract health...after a few weeks, the bag was gone and nothing had changed, so I switched the food back...but then suddenly my cat stopped having seizures! Well, had one a month for two months!
Thought back and realized the urinary food probably took a while to work! So I bought some more of that as soon as I could, because she had started having seizures every day again....
On day 2 there were no seizures... It's been a couple weeks now and she's getting better again.
Just wanted to add that update in case it might help anyone!
@@oasisranae thanks so much, I'll like to clarify , so what I should do is try this Purina cat food specially urinary tract? does the video cover this or was this your solution , where do i find this
@IIIISai my comment keeps disappearing...not sure why, and don't know if you saw it. Basically, I read about the crystals on a social media site starting with letter F, at a page called Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome (FHS). Then I immediately searched for urinary cat food since I was desperate. There is at least one other brand that makes it.
So happy to help, if at all possible!
Fantastic video. Thank you.
Thank you so much
very interesting thanks a lot to take in.
Brilliant! Thank you
Wow...fantastic video. We think that this is exactly what is happening with our Sadie. She periodically through the years had some signs that my daughter attributed to her aging (Sadie is now 14 years old). However, apparently as of late its gotten considerably worse. The vet said today that she thinks that she may have a tumor. I'm hoping not. Thanks you for this video. I had sent it to both of my daughters as I was watching it. They are both vet techs, we love our furbabies.
Thank you so much my cat has been doing this for a while so I’m setting up a vet appointment immediately.
Marques Jackson They start acting so crazy and start mutilating themselves
🥺My 6 yr old cat just started doing this and it's worrying me so much. Your video has helped me alot and I'm hoping the vet can help me figure out more on how to help treat and relieve her pain.
Did they ever find any answers for you?
Thanks for the info
I was just sleeping and all of the suddenly awoken by my cat throwing herself on the floor over and over again uncontrollably! I started FREAKING OUT thinking she was dying. Then she ran under the bed. She has never done this. Sometimes I do notice twitching around the base of her tail
My cat shows the same symptoms. Has anything helped?
Thank you
Finally, conversation on how bad commercial kibble is for pets!!
Not all kibble indeed but certainly best known brands are really unhealthy.
I look at kibbles as a MacDonalds for cats , yummy and addictive but certainly very bad in a long run. Some cats get health issues early (especially males, due to salt and preservatives in their kibbles ) some are later .
Even more there is no same standard for pet food as for the human food . Meat that goes to humans (“human grade”) is not the same that goes to pet kibbles .
I’m prepping my own food for my cats , with real meat . It’s not that hard at all . Ones a week mixing different types of meat and freeze it in one serving containers. Adding l-lysine and taurine- vitamins that are very cheap to buy in powder form .
Plz, for the sake of your kitties ( and dogs as well) do your research on your pets’ food.
This describe my cat to a tee. He actually had to have a piece of this tail amputated because he chewed it raw. He is now on Prednisone. He was first diagnosed with hyper active thyroid and put on medication which didn’t seem to help. Scratched his self raw under his neck and had to be prescribed antibiotics. Has lost a considerable amount of weight. All of these treatments in this video sound super expensive. I don’t know who could afford something like that ,but very very informative.
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So thankful to have found this video as my dad’s cat suffers with hyperthesia, and it’s very distressing to his cat. We’re working on figuring out how to help him more, we got a feliway diffuser and it seems to alleviate the discomfort but we are still searching for more remedies .❤️
Thank you so much. My cat does this and I have been so worried. The vet has tried so many things.
I have a rescue that has this. He developed it after we tried to adopt a cat for him to play with and this cat attacked him multi times and we had to take the cat back. Now, our cat is on cannabis which our vet suggested. This has helped greatly and we can tell when he hasn't gotten the correct amount as he's scared of ceiling fans or anything that's over this head (afraid of being pounced on). I recorded his episodes on my cell phone and took them to the vet. We changed his diet to Applaws wet cat food and Natural Balance dry and he got Purina Hairball Formula for a treat. This seems to work for us now. I didn't know anything about this condition until I had seen this video. My rescue cat was just a normal cat until this other cat that we tried to rescue from the shelter came into our house and started to attack our cat.
The people at the shelter had told us that this cat would be a good fit for us (after we explained what we were looking for and our current cat). After I cried taking the second cat back, they told us that they didn't know much about the second cat as he was one they had picked up from the street and now, they would tell others that he needed to be adopted into a house that had no other cats. So now, we deal with it.
This video answered a majority of my questions thanks to my brilliant son finding this for me
Do you have a product name of the food without carbo?
Valerion mentioned winds my kitty up, like catnip. This sounds counter-intuitive unless it helps exert energy in a healthy way then allows him to be more calm later on during an epsiode/flare up?
Thank you so much for this video. May I share my story and also have some questions? I adopted my cat Bibi since he was a kitten and when he was young seemed that he got itches (and even some skin drying) whenever he ate any cat food which consisted of mackerels.
He's 5yo old now and has been eating Royal Canin Renal (Dry Food) for the last 1 year due to his special kidney condition. Just yesterday morning, we ran out of that food so I bought dept. store wet food from nearby supermarket due to emergency (which I just realized that it has mackerels in its ingredients after I fed him that). Few hours later, he ran around, twitched, meowed so loud, shivered, scratched his head and chest, panted a lot like a dog. I tried to comfort him but he ran away and hid from me. After he did those unusual behaviors, he slept for 2 hours, woke up, and started doing it again for few minutes, then got back to sleep.
This morning I took him to a vet and she said he's in healthy condition (no fleas, ticks, fungi, normal temperature) but he got allergy from the substitute food, and prescribed him chlorpeniramine for a week. After I gave him that pill, seems that he's now very drowsy and very quiet.. not as usual (he's a very active kitty). I am very worried about this situation and would like to ask second opinions from you:
1. Is it normal if he has healthy condition after such crazy and unusual behaviors?
2. Is it also normal for him to stay quiet after he takes his medicine?
3. If the unusual behaviors happen again, should I let him hide away from me? I felt so sad as I wanted to hug him but he looked very irritated.
4. Would this allergy gives a really bad effects to his kidney?
Once again, thank you very much..
To everyone that think this is Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome (FHS) it might just be from a food allergy. If your cat does this after changing their food to a different brand it might be a food allergy problem. Food allergies make your cat very itchy to the point they are very stressed out and tail chasing is a symptom of a very stressed out cat. Hope this helps some people not stress out like I did...
I took my 8 month cat to the vet because of strange symptoms. Sudden licking, running around as if he's freaked out, head shaking and ears flicking, tail twitching, hiding, rolling skin on the back. The vet immediately suspected Hyperesthesia.
I'm a bit scared, because it seems to get worse. First episode that we saw was when he was around 3 months and throughout those 6 months we only witnessed couple episodes.
But 5 days ago he had a massive episode and now these attacks would repeat around 7-12 times a day.
hi am having the exact same problem with my eight month old kitten
My kitten calmed down after castration. He still has episodes, but they're not severe anymore and now it happens every couple days
My cats ears are kind of .. shaking and not moving in even motions..is that what you had to? :/ theive allways been like that though, at least on and off. But now he has many of those other symptoms too, and they seam to get worse fast. Lasting for days at a time actually.. it doesnt really seem to stop for very long, just some varying intensity. :/
@@LinnChanett no, not really, my cat would run around like crazy tho. Although his symptoms got waaayyyy better after he was castrated.
@@lkovalinait hmm okey :/ im glad your cat got better, it looks so terrible to have it like that
What about chewing lice? Where does it come from and how can you naturally get rid of it lemon grass oil and lavender?
My girl Ruby has feline hyperesthesia. She has had it since I adopted her when she was 4 1/2 months old. Funnily enough, brushing her back in quite a "rough" way stops an attack, and she actually loves being stroked on her back. Distraction also stops an attack, like playing with her or giving her a bit of my organic, home grown catnip. However, for all this, I need to be there and witness an attack, so when I'm at work or at night, I cannot always be there to do any of the above. I certainly noticed a decrease in attacks when she was on purely raw food, but because she is an extremely fussy eater, she is now on Royal Canin's Exigent (kibble) plus a bit of raw and some tinned food (Gourmet, but she only likes two varieties from the whole range!). I am thinking of putting her back on raw, but she *only* likes chicken breast! She will not touch turkey or lamb or fish or any other meat! This is one reason why I stopped feeding raw, because for her it was not a varied diet, what with eating only chicken....
Anyway, I just want to thank you for this wonderful informative video, and you are right about heavy meds like gabapentin should be the last resort (but most people are too lazy to try all the other things you mention first!).
My cat also seems to calm down sometimes if I brushe her back. Do you think it is something else than feline hyperesthesia?
Hi. I have no idea. The best thing would be to see your vet and find out exactly what it is (like fleas, for example)...
My cat liked being brushed too. In fact, before I started brushing her, we couldn't even stroke her...
For my cat this started just out of the blue. Very normal one second, totally disoriented the next. Semi wagging the tail, excessive grooming and somewhat uncontrollable muscle spasms across the spin and hind area. We did all the blood tests and everything is normal in that respect. We feed him Power of Nature dry food and Catz Fine Food wet food.
I need help because this is really an issue for our little guy. Just literally from one second to the next. No other signs of tension - ever. Very friendly little hunter looks like he is in his own world and Im distressed as a result. Please offer me some guidance. Anyone. Anything. Thank you. We live in Greece and many vets dont even know about this.
@@Stephanako Hi! Just want to ask if you find any solution for this problem,? My cat looks like she has the same problem :( and I can't do anything because we don't have vets who can diagnose it
Thankyou Dr Becker for making this video ♥️ I am interested in the cat chiropractic, i was also wondering, you mention DMG. What would be the recommended dosage? Thankyou
My 15 week old cat (Nico) this is the first time I've see her this today I went to touch her and she did a really high jump and made a weird noise also twitching round her back and tail I think this might be I dunno
what is a reasonable starting dose of Hpericum?
Yes best video for all of this. All this things you mention my kiddos has. Not the agression thou. 😻 I am crying at the helpful information and how sad it make me that he has this. It’s so sad to see him relaxed and then the twitching up to end of his tail. He grooms himself so much and I know that it feels like something attacking him. I got the homeopathic you mentioned last year but stop giving it because it was less. It got worse when we go on vacation for few days. I don’t want him to live drugged up.
Thank you. Very help video. Finally diagnosed what is wrong with my cat. My vet gave her a depomedrol injection.
Did the injection help her?
Thank you very much for such a good video. I have a kitty who has this issue at the moment. I will investigate the chiropractic solution.
Can anyone here help me figure out what to feed my cat? I have so much trouble figuring out what exactly she needs.
Can this hyperesthesia come and go, or vary in symptoms? My cat does sometimes get jumpy/bites herself really suddenly, or goes from zero to 60 in 2 seconds. She'll stare at things that I can't see on the floor, and then jump up and run away after a few seconds. But, she loooovves being touched/pet and back-scratched almost SO much that's it's alarming on the other side of things - she's never not liked it. I can scratch her back with my nails - pretty hard - for a good 10 minutes and she appears to love it. She'll crawl around purring, with her butt in the air and try to rub her cheeks on the floor...sometimes she'll tip over, or fall off the back of the couch this way. And she rarely bites or runs away, or appears overstimulated...if I stop doing it, then she'll look at me and start meowing until I continue again, like "why did you stop???" I've never had her seem to become overwhelmed by it. So somtimes it sounds like she's FH but in other ways she is the exact opposite. She's pretty vocal in general, but more-so when you're not petting her than when she is being pet/engaged. Is she just needy and a super happy kitty, or nerve/neurological issues?
Can someone explain my cat doesn’t twitch at all or do any of these things but as soon as I lay my finger gently on his fur his body starts twitching and even though I’m just touching his fur he has a reaction to it what is this
There's this stray kitty boy. Very friendly. He liked being petted on the head soooo much. I knew better than to pet a stray's back. One day I think he moved, and I touched his back, he just suddenly bit me, almost punched a hole in my hand.
The other day I saw him again, the skin on his back was "moving like waves/rolling"? Now I know that's exactly what rippling is.
My cat has this and allergy shots really help her. It’s so hard to watch your pet suffer with one of these attacks. 😢
This is really helpful, excellent information too, thank you!
Do you mind sharing what allergy shot worked for your cat? Thanks!
@@chelseasmiles247 it’s a steroid allergy shot, but my husband who has taken her for it, unfortunately can’t remember the name. I’m sorry. I think it would be a standard shot they would use in both Canada and the USA. We’re in Canada.
My cat has been twitching. I noticed it today, she was on my bed and I stood up to grab something that was hanging. When I went to sit down, I looked at her to make sure I didn’t hit her, and then I watched her side twitch in 3 different places. I reached down to touch her and she kept batting and meowing at me like it hurt. Then seconds later she was fine and wasn’t in pain. Thoughts? I’ve never seen her act like this. But something seems off with her lately, she seems thinner, less energetic..
Thank you, this is very helpful! How long would one keep a cat on a new diet, before confirming it is not an allergy? I have excluded seafood for months now, and have excluded chicken for approximately one month. I haven't noticed a difference, but I was feeding her turkey (I did double check - I know many foods that say turkey also have chicken ingredients), so I am trying lamb next.
The best results I've seen is with a structured play time, and meals at almost the exact same time everyday. But I understand how hard that is with work - I live alone, and can't be home from work until 10 PM somedays. Other days, I'm out the door at 5 AM.
Where are you located I think my cat has this condition
Does this develop gradually or all of a sudden? My 5 year old kitty began to have ripples down his back yesterday whenever I pat him. He was still purring and nuzzling, but his skin was looking crazy. He didn’t attack or anything, and I haven’t noticed anything else... is it just something to look out for at this point? He’s still doing it in the morning but seems to put up with it
I have a cat, he's a Chausie mix (Chausie's are part Abyssinian part jungle cat, he was an adoption I had no idea he was a Chausie at the time) who does this. Recently my neighbor had to go into the hospital and I took on his dog, who Cal is friends with. Already there is so much improvement. I have his back ripping on video and he does everything except obsessive grooming. Yowling, acting like hallucinating, tail chasing, running around when he was calm, hates his back touched. If anyone has a cat-like this and they don't have another pet, get one. Catnip if your cat has the gene is another huge help. Routine is important, I am actually starting to consider returning him to raw food after this, I just have no idea how I'm going to afford it unless I buy my own meat and do it that way. He's a 15 lb cat and I think he did do better on the raw. He's a great boy, very sweet but sometimes he gets wild. The next step is the vet, but with everything I've seen and listening to this explaination, I'm pretty sure I'm on the right track, but the vet will tell the tale. Thank you, Dr. Becker, for this awesome video since I'd already suspected it just hearing your description definitely makes me feel like it's time for a vet.
all i know is my cat hates when i touch above his tail on his back.he used to love it, he is about 8 years old, hes pretty healthy no injuries. he is an inside cat.
Great video, you cover a lot of issues. My cat started about 3 years ago chewing her legs, chewed the fur right off. Tried meds from vet and that didn't help. Then she started randomly jumping up and chasing her tail and licking her back. Tried changing her food, more vet checks, but what seems to be working is chiropractic. Her back was out in 3 places, caused her to feel numb and tingly in the legs and then the tail area. This feeling made her chew there the chiropractor thinks. Will be going for more treatments, hope it fixes it! Feel so sorry for her.
Did u ever get more visits from the chiropractor if so is it working? How expensive is it? I wonder if massaging would help. My Himalayan cat has it bad, I can’t even touch her☹️she keeps to herself and has many episodes. I used to think my cat was just weird and didn’t know this was actually a thing.
@@YugoslavGirl I have taken her for several appointments and each time the chiropractor loosens her up a bit more. It is $60 a session but is about the same price as the meds which I dont give her now. Still a bit of a problem but better for sure. Hope that helps! Take her once a month.
Thanks for the wonder details
My cat reacts exactly as described for Hyperesthesia . I put her in a small harness (hoping to be able to take her on walks with me) and she became instantly more relaxed. She wasn't sleeping very well so popped the harness on her for a night, such a chilled out kitty. When she wears her harness I see no skin rippling, shaking or twitching or tail biting etc. She loves to go outside so I don't let her wear the harness then as I am afraid she might get hung up. I hope this may be of some help for others to try. :) :)
What kind of harness?
Interesting!
@Nikki
That's fascinating! What kind of harness is it? Would you have a link?
My cat has never worn a collar since she came home one day with her paw through it!
If you take your cat our for a walk on a harness, you can't tug your cat to go any direction like a dog or else they'll go bezerk. If they go under a parked car you have to let go of the leash.
Interesting 🤔 but I tried to put a collar on her once and she hated it!!!
I have a 1 year old, male DSH, that has most of the symtpoms of hypersesthesia. He does get a small amount of dry food, but it's grain-free and natural, high-protein, low fat. He also gets canned food twice a day. I've found that his symptoms have decreased the more he goes outside and the more we play (play time is 3 times/day, for about 10 min each time) We go for walks (but not now because he just got fixed) so, it's helped by keeping him active. He's not at the excessive gnawing stage because when he does lick/nibble, I start to play with him. I also tether him to my [covered] deck so he can see all of the animals, try and chase the bugs, and watch as humans walk their dogs. He's been doing a lot better but, I started doing this before I even found out he may/may not have hyperesthesia, which in my research, seems more like he does. I'm going to try using the CBD oil I have as well by rubbing it along his spine (it is an ingestible kind).
How has the CBD oil worked?
Michelle Manatan interested in how the cdb worked
get OFF DRY FOOD. ITS NOT NATURAL
Michelle Manatan Can you share a picture or the brand name of the CBD oil?
Hi, Did CBD OIL work?
I was looking for this, my cat was a stray, we let her out since we live in apartments so its not dangerous, other cats live around the apartments too.
My cat will meow for MINUTES to go outside and if we ignore her she’ll start twitching and jumping, she’ll run into my older brothers room and go under the bed for an hour, mostly for sleeping.
I’m not sure if I need to take her to a vet, she hasnt had a bath for months, she doesnt smell bad but yknow...
she only licks herself, maybe nibbling here and there but nothing to harm her
So is distilled water ok?
My vet has been treating my cat for a few years because she said it's a flea allergy (she displays symptoms as said in the video, I was attending every month as they were giving her steroid injection and anti-biotics if she had an infection. They said I could manage it if I gave her the steroid in tablet form which I have been doing it works to some degree combined with her monthly spot on flea treatment but she can't stay on steroids for more than 5 months.
I'm wondering what is in the steroid that stops the itching and is there a natural form of it. I've recently caught my cat a few times having jumps up onto the worktop, looking for fat or oil in the pan after I've been cooking. They know what they need I guess! So I'll get some Omega 3 oil. She has both wet and dry food but she has always been fussy and doesn't like the 'meat' in any wet food. I do try to buy it with no colours, preservatives etc. I use the gravy to give her the steroid tablets. She does eat more dry food. (I'm sorry I ever started her on it).
Thank you, such amazing information. When give your cat supplements (such as omega 3) what should the dose be? And I'm glad you talked about CBS oils 🇨🇦❤
How do you treat it?
My roommate brought his cats to live with us recently, and the youngest has this. She has spouts of hissing and growling. Scared me for a bit but she's fine.
my handicapped cat who cant stand on her back feet is extremely sensitive to the tail base. Even a small rub will make her tense up in body and vibrate her hind legs at unnatural extreme speed for couple of seconds. I always thought its a weird seizure but this hyperesthesia seems to also closely match to her issue
My cat started this about six months ago. We have a stray cat that started coming to the front door and I think this be a trigger. She gets really agitated when the stray is out there and it seems to trigger an episode.
Hi mam I rilly need your help well i thank i broke my cat nerve in its tail help pls help
Hi this is very helpfull, could you write down the things you do to help the cats? I couldnt understand e.g. the Homeopathic remedies you are giving. Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much! I have a cat that does not have the use of her back legs, she has episodes where she starts locking herself and the the surface she is on, if a blanket she will lick and bite the blanket violently, if on the ground she will lick the pavement violently...does hyperesthesia bring these symptoms?🙏❤️🙏
Out of interest, does anyones cat have this and use silica gel type litter?
My kitty bit 3 inches of her tail off in one go. Luckily she was already hospitalized at the vets for pneumonia.
We diagnosed her with FHS, and then 4 days later she developed pneumonia so they hospitalized her and then she bit it off...
Shes on 100mg of gabapentin 3x a day..as well as 5mg prozac once a day for the tail biting and OCD
Thank you for taking the time to post this....I believe one of my cats has this, and his brother a much milder version (doesn't like to be pet on back) case. I will take your suggestion of putting some CBD oil in their food. They get wet food every day, as I agree, about the kibble fillers.
What kind of wet food do you give them?
My cat started doing this with her ears twitching eyes squinting and licking her lips and then running hauling ass it can last from 30 seconds to three minutes. This is located all in her head area. She has been to the vet but I didn’t have a video at the time they checked her ears and her teeth in her eyes she got a clean bill of health. But I think I will take her back for some bloodwork. I would love for you to see this it’s very unusual it’s all surrounded around her head. I’m wondering if she has a B 12 insufficiency so I started giving her a little B12 made for cats fingers crossed it’ll work it seem to of started when I started feeding her Stella & Chewy frozen raw
Do distractions help? He doesn't seem to do it when I let him outside but I'm worried that the damage he has on his tail already will get infected. Please help!
What do you suggest for a cat that REFUSES to eat anything but kibble? This is the one I am currently feeding her www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KNF5SPY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have a Cat that has these symptoms. I have recently switched them over to Science diet perfect weight dry cat food. Is this cat food a good food. What should I do.
My boy has this. Sometimes it's terrible. He's also only has 1 eye and the other cornea is damaged. Sometimes his episodes have him screaming at his tail. To sleep at night we have a routine where he lies next to me and puts his tail in my hand to hold it still so he can sleep. It's like it has a mind of its own. As long as I hold it still he's just fine.
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My cat has this issue. He is an adopted barn cat who for seven years has ONLY eaten a really cheap cat food, Kit & Kaboodle, which is what he was fed on the farm in Nebraska. We have tried switching him to better foods several times, and he refuses it, i.e., will swipe it right out of his bowl. Do we need to starve him into switching? He is an indoor-outdoor cat with what seems to be a very satisfying "lifestyle," great territory, places to climb, hide, etc.
Hi, is there any way we can have some contact details of Dr.Becker?
I noticed these symptoms happen more during playing… always when I play wand with him he starts licking around.. does it make him stimulated? Shall I stop playing with him?
Does skin rolling alway mean they have fhs? My cat doesn't seem to have any other symptoms.
the vet said my cat has hyperesthesia. xray showed nothing. she wanted to put her on steroids and/or antidepressants. i decided to try CBD. it helps a lot with the rippling. but she has inflamed matted areas on both hips. they've recently gotten very bad, it hurts her to touch them. there doesn't seem to be fur missing, just raised up matted patches. i have never seen her biting herself there, she must do it at night. i'm looking for something topical for them. anyone have any suggestions?
My cat just began going through this. It was BAD. I gave her a long bath (which she hated) but was problem free for a few days. It just started up again.
did it ever get better? what was the outcome?
My cat has this! She does all these symptoms, the fur rolls and she goes crazy at the top of her tail, her tails is constantly going. She gets very frightened and wide eyed! The vet said she has epilepsy and has given her phenobarbital? The tablets are not stopping her Twitching really but she does seem more chilled but very lethargic . Should I stick with these tablets? I’m not really sure what to do.
Kim Craven-wilkinson I know it’s very frustrating because you don’t want to have your animals on medication and possibly the wrong medication
Is cbd ok? Is soft food ok?
my cat likes gentle pets on his stomach area, but around the spine neck tail or head he bites trying to hurt me
What about connection between this syndrome and bladder/kidney issues?
She developed this after having structure crystals in her urine
My cats back ripples when I scratch the base of her tail but she doesn’t dislike it if anything it looks like she enjoys it and she would turn around for more but she doesn’t bite herself she only bites me when we play
Awesome video so helpful as one of our kitties ( we have 4) just had an episode, very scrary we didn't know what is wrong with her. So she has not yet been diagnosed by a vet but all the symptoms match to a tee.Recently we switched to a new food, Hills, with salmon ( our kitties are from a small desert town in the middle east, not much fish there I guess). We are switching to rabbit or something else ASAP tomorrow morning. We'll also try some CBD oil later on this week. For now we will work on the diet eliminating fish and all the other bad stuff as suggested. Thank You, so helpful.
That really is the cutest grump I’ve ever seen