re: Any veterinarian’s on here that would chat for a minute

I found a kitten. Got him checked out, all good, he’s about 9 - 10 months old now. His back legs started getting weak and clumsy started trips to doctor. Ears ok, spinal x-ray is ok, no broken bone or narrowed disc spaces.

Put him on steroids, 2.5mg every 12 hours for first five days and then 2.5mg once a day for the next 10 days or so. After the first 5 days he’s totally normal. After stopping steroid he makes it about 8 days and it starts over again.

It starts with him walking four or five feet and then he sits down, it eventually gets worse. Put him on prednisone a second time and he get back to 100% normal but 7-8 days off rapids and right back the same way. He doesn’t seem to be in pain.

Can you not just nuke him with prednisone for a few months at higher doses? It’s something to do with soft tissue injury like a disc or either it’s a tumor.

I’m suppose to schedule a consult in Tallahassee with the vet school for an MRInor a CT scan. That’s coming to be a couple of thousand dollars.