Since you have been to the vet 3 times in a week, what did the vet tell you about the constipation, as well as what you are feeding the cat?

Here's another direction to go--the post below is 2 years old, but the cat had much of the same as your cat and it turned out the cat had an infection of the anal glands--not every vet picks this up. Read it to see what it was and it might help you.

http://www.justanswer.com/cat-health/5lulk-recommend-high-fiber-canned-food-cat.html

Also, I have a cat with cystitis and I read an internet post years ago by a woman whose cat had problems with cystitis until she started the cat on drinking distilled water only. It turns out that water supplies, be it in the city or country may contained added chemicals for bacteria or in the country wells they may have various minerals and that can upset a pet's digestive system.

I changed to distilled water and my cystitis cat did just great and I get the gallons and it goes in the refrigerator. Mind you, not bottled DRINKING WATER, because some of that has chemicals in it.

As to water in the cat's canned food, I put a lot of DISTILLED water in the food in a bowl and then I microwave it to make it nice and warm and it helps the flavor come out of the canned food, plus it does enhance the smell. My cystitis cat can't resist it.

Here is a site that discusses Lactulose and it is a sugar that is used for something else but also for Megacolon in cats. Read the site about Megacolon and your cat may have this. Also keep in mind that is your case has diabetes or is close to diabetes, Lactulose may negatively impact your cat--you're feeding sugar. Again, see the site below.

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-do-i-use-lactulose-for-cats.htm

I also read online about using hairball remedies pretty regularly because they have the ability to get in and coat the feces (the stool). If the feces aren't coated and get dry, they get hard and are much tougher to pass and you don't want that for your cat. Some hairball remedies are flavored to make it a little easier.

Good luck and I wish you and Peaches well. This is a tough situation.

Thanks, the vet has been giving her fluids and she had an enema 2 different times while at the vet. She does have anal gland problems and has to have them expressed every 3 to 4 weeks for over a year now. They took x-rays and don't really see that she has mega colon at this time. She gets lactulose and the hairball remedy every day. The only help we have gotten from the vet is fluids and cleaning her out but then she is constipated all over again, she has only gone twice in 7 days. Yesterday she only peed twice and today she has not went at all. She just sleeps most of the time and will not play. I just don't know what to do anymore.

I do have a call into the vet office but she won't be in until Tuesday. I will give the distilled water a try.

My cats have to have their anal glands expressed every 6 months and the vet said that in cats its not really normal that they have to be expressed. So that makes me think there is something going on that my cats have to have it done every 6 months and your cat every 3 to 4 weeks. But I don't know what "IT" is. With anal gland problems some cats can hold their feces to the point of constipation because it is painful to have a bowel movement.

We've talked about anal glands, and megacolon and lactulose and the hairball remedies. Let me keep digging and see if I find anything else that could be mentioned.

I'm thinking out loud and wondering if your cat is fearing the litter box due to maybe painful bowel movements and maybe you might switch for a short while to a disposable litter box or even a puppy training pad.

P.S. I have two cats. One refuses to use the litter box and uses the puppy training pads. She was urinating on the towels in front of the clothes washing machine and crying when she did it. I took her to the vet thinking she had a bladder infection and she didn't. So I thought about it and got a small pack of puppy training pads and she went to them right away feeling good and not crying, almost like it was destined. She refuses to share litter boxes with her brother. I understand. My other cats uses the litter boxes without a problem. To start her, I took a towel with her urine and dabbed just a little of her urine on the puppy training pad and she took to it immediately. And she had bowel movements immediately on them too.

I'm going to keep looking. Keep posting on anything new that you discover or hopefully recovery. Many hugs.

In trying to find anything, I found there is a prescription med that is used for cats that have chronic constipation or megacolon. It helps the food go through the intestional track. it is below and just take a look at it. You can't use it when the cat is constipated. You use it after the vet removes the constipation.

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=0+1459&aid=1389

It also says here that cats with chronic constipation or megacolon should not have high fiber diets and instead have diets with meat. GO TO HOW CONSTIPATION AND MEGACOLON ARE TREATED? AND THEN GO TO LAST SENTENCE.

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=1+2122&aid=3471

I wanted to mention that below is a last ditch effort for megacolon, but is also used when everything else doesn't work. I wanted you to have the info and be aware of it in case it reaches the point where your cat can't go without the vet, anesthesia and all that.

http://www.twincitiesveterinarysurgery.com/docs/subtotal%20colectomy.pdf

Thank you for taking the time to gather all this information. I have been in a lot pain today so not able to sit at the computer. I will look in to all this well I'm feeling better. Thanks again for everything.

She did go a little bit during the night so that is good news.

I have a call into the vet and I will let her know I want to try the Cisapride that is the prescription medication and we had discussed maybe going that route if the other stuff did not work. I will just leave her on the Wellness since it is a much better food then the Friskies. I was just concerned that she was really packing on the pounds and she is only fed a little twice a day.

It's hard to tell if she is sick or just very depressed from our dog Abby being gone. This all started back up right after we lost Abby. Peaches just lays around looking sad, she won't play but for a few minutes when we try to get her moving around. She was very close to my dog, they slept together, played together and Peaches was born here so she has always had Abby around. Peaches used to curl up on top of Abby when she was a kitten. Peaches was doing so well and we haven't had any constipation problems since January.

Thanks again for your help. I was wondering what kind of food your kitties eat?

My one female cat that is 12 1/2 and runs around like a Cheetah eats Fancy Feast Mornings Turkey Soufflé and she eats some of her brother's kibbles and drinks the distilled water. She has great energy and her brother used to chase her around until a few months ago when he was vomiting.

Her brother (and he is her brother with same mom and dad but different litter) who is 14 1/2 and has cystitis, drinks distilled water and eats a tablespoon or more (small amount) of Prescription c/d canned food and then eats Royal Canin dry Hypoallergenic Hydrolyzed Protein Adult HP kibbles (he had vomiting months back and during tests and blood work and said he some inflammation in his stomach/intestines--wasn't cycstisis as that's bladder). So they put him on the kibbles and it resolved immediately. As they age, they can get more sensitive to food and reactive to it. We already know he is a cystitis kitty, plus the regular vet can't clean his teeth because he dies under anesthesia and I have to take him to a special vet with an anesthesiologist and they have carefully prepared an anesthesia mix that works best for him and the team monitors him because his blood pressure drops completely when administered anesthesia and the team has to administer counter measures. So he's a sensitive boy.

The kibbles supposedly have no taste, but my two are crazy for them. My female cat didn't need them, but was carrying on to get them, so I feed her them too and she's very happy. the vet told me it is great if they both want to eat them and it doesn't harm her to have them.

Both of my cats are "grazers", eating throughout the day, but not overeating.

Both of them have bowel movements every day, sometimes twice a day, and finish a full big bowl of water a day. They really like the distilled water. That's why I get it in gallons, because they drink so much. They also urinate more frequently and the vet said that's okay because they drink so much and with the dry kibbles the water is helping to really moisten up those kibbles they've eaten throughout the day.