Originally Posted by
Vintagegal
My cat went through this. Not that I know exactly what is going on with your cat, but here is what our vet told us...
They took an x-ray of our cat's stomach and intenstines. Our cat's intestines were enlarged, meaning that he could possibly have intestinal cancer; and this is why he was throwing up food all the time. Plus, our cat was eating non-stop. The reason for this was because he wasn't feeling "full." His intestines were preventing him fully-digesting, so his food was coming back up.
Ask your vet to do an x-ray. They're not cheap, though. It cost us $250 for the x-ray (human x-rays cost less than this. Geeesh!)
Anyway, the vet told us that we could opt to have a biopsy done on our cat for $1,000; or we could just treat the pain with antibiotics and steroids. He gave our cat five years to live. Our cat is currently eight years old. We didn't think it was worth putting our cat through the trauma of a biopsy (they would have to cut his stomach open and remove a portion of his intenstines). So, we're just going to treat the symptoms and keep our cat as pain-free as possible.