My oldest cat just got diagnosed with hyperthyroidism too, we've been giving him pills twice daily ((groan)) and he has surgery scheduled next thursday...
They told us about the radioactive iodine treatment and we pretty much came to the same issues: too much $$ and we couldn't visit during quarantine (he's had to stay at the vet for several days in a row and he *totally freaks out* - pulled out his own catheter and tried to make a run for it) so we went with the normal surgery... :(
of course, there's always the fear with radioactivity that he'd develop superpowers... and frankly this cat is wantonly destructive enough with just his normal feline wiles ;)
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Date: 2008-05-24 07:04 am (UTC)They told us about the radioactive iodine treatment and we pretty much came to the same issues: too much $$ and we couldn't visit during quarantine (he's had to stay at the vet for several days in a row and he *totally freaks out* - pulled out his own catheter and tried to make a run for it) so we went with the normal surgery... :(
of course, there's always the fear with radioactivity that he'd develop superpowers... and frankly this cat is wantonly destructive enough with just his normal feline wiles ;)