Molly Harrison
Edit after owner’s comment: You’ll notice I never said that it was impossible for a cat to have hyperthyroidism and ckd. I specifically said that the vet at McClelland’s said it was impossible for HER to have ckd. And specifically, it was her urine specific gravity being NORMAL that showed the new vet she did not have ckd. Urine specific gravity shows how the kidneys are functioning. Simply checking creatinine and BUN levels is not enough as those are not the full indicator of kidney functioning. They never tested her urine at City Creatures, so Dr. Pera’s diagnosis was never fully verified. Not only that, but Methimazole, the medication Clara is on for her hyperthyroidism, is known to be hard on the kidneys, which can raise the creatinine and BUN levels, which is the case for Clara. After a month of halving her Methimazole per the new vet’s recommendation, her creatinine and bun levels went back to normal. No, she does not have kidney disease. Also, a 1.0 for T4 levels is very low, and now it’s back to normal again as well. Thanks for trying to kill my cat. I hope you guys go out of business. P.S. it’s cheaper at McClelland’s too, so if you go there, you’ll save money and not have the vets try to kill your pets 😊 Original review: My one cat was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism in the fall, which we’ve been treating under Dr. Pera’s care. She then got her thyroid levels and kidney levels rechecked in January. After which, Dr. Pera told me she now has stage 1 kidney disease as well. The issue is that her T4 (thyroid) levels were now at 1.0 where the reference interval was 0.8 - 4.7. This means her T4 levels were very low and indicated too strong of a dose of her medicine. We went and got a second opinion from McClelland’s Small Animal Hospital and it turns out the thyroid medicine is very tough on kidneys and that doing a lower dose of the thyroid medicine would help. Apparently, also her urine was not tested and a urine test is necessary for testing for kidney disease. They ran that at McClelland’s and they found that it was actually impossible for her to have kidney disease. Not only did Dr. Pera fail to mention that her T4 levels were very low, she failed to mention that the medicine could be impacting her kidneys causing the high creatinine levels. She also failed to do adequate testing to confirm her diagnosis and leaving my cat on the high dosage of thyroid medicine would’ve likely caused actual kidney disease in the future.
