I just wanted to know if anyone else had a cat with asthma and wanted to know how your cat is doing. If they are on any meds currently?

We found Isis outside literally on our door step November of 2006. We took her in, tried to find her owner. No one came forward so we were going to foster her and adopt her out. Then she became very ill and we almost lost her. We took her to the vet who after several tests said she had asthma.
She was put on Terbutaline and Prednisolone. She was doing better but still had trouble when she got stressed (Getting used to the other cats. She was a people cat but not a cat cat for sure).
In July after moving, we starting weaning her off (first attempt was unsuccessful) again and she was doing great. She is now completely off her medication and she is doing wonderful. she is used to all the cats now and is more active and alive than I have ever seen her. The vet said she never thought she would be off medication.
I know that asthma symptoms can be linked to other things. She was tested for heart worms and she was tested for heart problems too. They did blood tests.
When we first brought her in, they thought it was either a heart condition or asthma and they tested and did an Xray and an echo cardiogram and ruled out the heart problem.
They did a wash of her esophagus to look at cells.
I know of some cats that are on pills once a week, once a day, twice a day, some that are on inhalers. I have her medicine in case she has an episode.

Also, there are different triggers to the asthma attack. We moved into a house that was redone (new carpet, new everything) and probably a lot cleaner than our crappy appartment. And she is used to the other cats now.

I didn’t ask the question to have her diagnosis questioned. I know, at first, I had trouble finding others in my situation…

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