My senior cat has seizures, blindness, weakness. Is it a brain tumor?

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Cat having 30-90 min seizures. Shes 12-16 years old. Has the start of kidney disease and is a little anemic. Fri. Am 30 min seizure. Sat. 30-60. Sun. 90 min. Rx of phenobarb. Friday 16.2 mg. Bloodwork & urine normal, no diabetes, no high bp. Dr at er said today must be brain tumor. Week or so left. Im going to put her down today or tomorrow or next seizure. Her symptoms are weight loss, back leg weakness, torn retinas blindness just happened, sneezing with a little blood. Is it a tumor or else? Pet's info: Cat | Domestic Longhair | Female | spayed | 12 years and 9 months old | 6.5 lbs

Jeffrey Milner · Accepted Answer

Sorry to hear about Babygirl. Unfortunately, without advanced diagnostic imaging it will not be possible to tell you with certainly the cause of her seizure activity. An MRI would be the only way to accomplish this positively. Based on her age and no previous history of seizure activity, a brain tumor or tumor elsewhere in the central nervous system would be the most likely diagnosis. Much lower down on my list would be some sort of infectious or inflammatory process. Even lower would be extremely late onset epilepsy. Based on what you are telling me, it sounds like humane euthanasia is probably the best decision you can make for her. I know it's hard but I hope it gives you some solace knowing that you are bringing her to peace.

My senior cat has seizures, blindness, weakness. Is it a brain tumor?

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