Thanks for trying to help Rafiki. I hope to get to town in the next couple days to look for more probiotics... probably a bit too much would just harmlessly get pooped out.
The Panacur he was given for 3 days has not seemed to help, so I guess the whip worm theory was a dud. If anything he is continuing to decline. He is now loosing his balance and coordination and has fallen several times if I don't help him get down from the window sill he likes to sleep which is only 12 inches from a chair with a spot he can use as a step in between. I have called and emailed the vet asking about our options, what might be going on and how this would be treated, and whether the radiograph and a blood panel might find a treatable condition. Or conversely a painful terminal one, but so far no one has gotten back to me or suggested I make an appointment to discuss this.
I am starting to feel many vets are so busy they don't remember all the pieces of the puzzle, and if the main vet I was referred to really does think my cat may have a partial GI obstruction, it seems that is urgent enough they would have wanted to do a radiograph when I first saw them almost 3 weeks ago, or at least get back to me quickly now. The clinics in this area now seem to have several vets working out of them and they all share patients which also seems to make it easier for miscommunication. Anyways, with no vomiting, no bad breath, slow onset over the past 5 or more weeks, an inflamed colon with no palpable lumps or constipation, the persistent fever, the fact Moggie is still on rare occasions eating almost normally and pooping a bit, and he still seems to enjoy a tummy rub, and a few days ago was well enough to jump 4 feet up onto my bed and 3 or more feet in tall grass, (on his harness) makes me wonder how likely this is a partial GI obstruction? I can tell he feels really crappy like he has the flu. But have no sense of anything specifically pressure or movement sensitive in his smaller or larger intestines
Turns out he no longer likes yogurt, though I did get a bit into some food he ate. Yesterday I did some research and decided it would be OK to include some mushy cooked rice with his chicken. With his carb fetish he loves that if he can bring himself to eat at all, and this morning I used my hand as a bowl and with a lot of encouragement probably got him to eat 1/2 a cup of chicken and mushy rice cooked with the chicken. But this afternoon he does this thing where he looks interested in eating, approaches the food, and then pulls back like it smells horrible. And he spends a totally insane amount of time wanting to cover up his food while he nibbles it. It is almost like it hurts him to eat. I just opened a can of salmon and he woke up, got excited meowed for some so I put a piece in his bowl and he ran up to it like he was going to eat and then pulled back like it suddenly smelled really bad. And now he is seeming to prefer food without the fortiflora. I wonder if he starts associating whatever he was eating with when he felt sick afterwards, so he decides to avoid everything after he eats it for a bit?
Sorry to go on and on about my kitten. I find the information I have gathered here tends to be more trustworthy than a lot of other places. And I want to help him if this is practically possible.