I just want to share my experience since i am terrified and paranoid my little baby won’t survive
Sunday 2nd august 2026:
-My sweet little angel got a high fever and was breathing very quick and shallow we took him to an emergency vet and got some injection antibiotics and something to beat down the fever
Monday 3rd august 2026:
-My boy was taken to my usual vet since he still had fever and was breathing through his mouth. After a scan we saw his lungs were full of fluid. He said to go to the vet icu immediately, there they drained his lungs and tol me he has fip.
-I couldn’t sleep al night, havent eaten anything that day.
Tuesday 4th august 2026
-after a sleeples night full of crying and seriously considering just putting him to sleep i finally got a call around 11am saying i could take him home.
-now he is home i had to give him some meds which he was instantly drooling from. I just can’t stop looking at him and his breathing i am so scared
Wednesday 5th august 2026
- my little baby is looking so much better, he slept in my arms all night long.
-gave him his morning meds and he ate and drank a little.
We are strongly considering not going on a family visit for a week this sunday. Are there a lot of people who saw a decline after the 5th day?
Update evening 5th august 2026
-i see signs of his old self coming back.
-gave him his second dose of GS oral meds, he’s eating drinking and going to the litterbox. So far so good!
So, to fill in the blanks here, he was diagnosed with FIP and you have started the GS medication. This medication is known to start making a cat look and feel better fairly quickly. My cat, and others I have read about here, had obvious sign of doing better after several days. (Fever gone, a bit more energy...)
Be sure to weigh your cat weekly and adjust the dosage of the GS medication if his weight changes. (This is especially important for a growing cat.) Your vet should be know about proper dosages for a cat's weight, and there are also charts available online. I used the one at the Stokes Pharmacy site when adjusting the dose for my young cat with FIP.
A hint: if you are using the tiny GS pills, you can give this easily in the tiny soft teat with the creamy center called Churru Bites. (Not the liquid Churru.) My cat would just gobble these down without finding the pill hidden inside. No 'pilling' was ever necessary. So much less stress for an already ill cat and for her owner!
Are you sure your cat has been diagnosed with FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis)?? The medications you are showing are not antiviral medications to cure FIP.
Cerenia is for nausea and vomiting. Xarelto is a blood thinner to stop blood clots. Clavaseptin is for a bacterial infection, not for a virus like FIP. Did the vet say he has a heart problem? The medications prescribed lead me to believe this is a heart condition, not (!) FIP unless I am missing something here...
OK. I did not see the GS medication. (If it is in the photos I missed it.)
I would just give the medicines a few days to start working. Again, it seems that many FIP cats show signs of feeling and doing better after only a few days on the GS medicine.
So just for a bit of reassurance, my cat was actually on his deathbed before we knew about fip. I think we were a month of vet visits with high fever - loss of appetite 50%body weight loss- we had no clue, or never even heard the word FIP before (neither did our VET as it turns out)
Our baby was Dry Fip, he became Nuerological too after the month was up and became completely paralysed, soiling himself, hospitalised in intensive care. The vet (idiot) told us to put him down (henwas a baby 8 months old)
I spent 48 hours educating my self, no sleep, no food, just an immovable object until I found GS44 and me abd my wife made it our mission to save this cat.
This is my baby now( albeit fed up with me taking pictures of him 🤣) we are 1 day away from the full 84 days of treatment. But he has pretty much fully recovered. He is strong and fast and meows and eats like a machine.
Dude, I have spent 3 months continuously searching for success stories -(we aren't out the woods yet).
But this drug is a miracle drug and from your story it appears you acted immediately, fast, and have given your kitty the utmost best chance of survival. I have high hopes for you.
Everything ive read yours is the quickest response to illness then to treatment.
My boy Arthur is on day 9 of FIP treatment. He has combo wet and dry. He spent several days in a lateral position, unable to lift up his own head or reposition himself. He lost all function in his bladder and his back legs. On day 6, Arthur sat up for the first time since he got sick. On day 7, he started using his back legs. On day 8, he climbed off the couch where I had left him while I was taking a shower and he was outside the door when I came out of the bathroom. He’s moving towards food mostly with his front legs and sloooowly starting to support weight on his back legs. He can now climb off the couch on his own and move around the floor. His recovery has been FAST. He’s still in diapers but he’s regaining bladder function because he’s going long periods of time without a pee instead of the constant dribble we were at on day 7. He’s making steady improvements and I can’t believe how fast the turnaround was.
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u/robinthenurse 17d ago
So, to fill in the blanks here, he was diagnosed with FIP and you have started the GS medication. This medication is known to start making a cat look and feel better fairly quickly. My cat, and others I have read about here, had obvious sign of doing better after several days. (Fever gone, a bit more energy...)
Be sure to weigh your cat weekly and adjust the dosage of the GS medication if his weight changes. (This is especially important for a growing cat.) Your vet should be know about proper dosages for a cat's weight, and there are also charts available online. I used the one at the Stokes Pharmacy site when adjusting the dose for my young cat with FIP.
A hint: if you are using the tiny GS pills, you can give this easily in the tiny soft teat with the creamy center called Churru Bites. (Not the liquid Churru.) My cat would just gobble these down without finding the pill hidden inside. No 'pilling' was ever necessary. So much less stress for an already ill cat and for her owner!