Cat Yowling, Vomiting, & Other Issues - Shifting to Holistic Treatments

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Hello all,

This is my first post as I joined a few weeks ago. Long story short (TL;DR) - I have an older cat (Kiki) who was living on the edge of demise and suffering horribly, but has improved in the severe areas, yet currently has three symptoms of concern: Yowling early mornings, vomiting, and an abscess over her eye. I'm trying to find out why she yowls and why she vomits so much. (I'm not concerned about the growth now.)

Kiki's Current Health Concerns

1. Yowling - Raspy, wild yowling repeatedly in the early morning at me when I'm sleeping - We previously had multiple extreme incidents of this in the middle of the night for which I had to take her to the ER, for thousands of dollars, as she was clearly in immense pain and had UTI and constipation issues. But since I have shifted her nutrition to frozen meats and freeze-dried (away from a thyroid medicine kibble), there have been no severe episodes like this for a couple of months. But similar and to a lesser degree, she will scream at me multiple times like 4 or 5 AM from my bedroom doorway until I connect with her or convince her to jump up on the bed and settle in and relax, or go to her litter box and take care of business. I tend to think that her UTI issues and constipation are under control now as I don't see her straining to do #1 anymore, and she does #2 daily and enough. Any ideas why she is doing this morning yowling?
2. Vomiting - she vomits once or twice a day, projectile vomit. 85% of the time there's a hairball in it, and 10% of the time a piece of grass, and 5% neither. Should I be concerned about hairball vomiting? Or grass vomiting? She goes outside a little every day in a yard with basically no grass but she finds little pieces through the fence. Are these normal? It just seems too frequent to be entirely healthy.
3. Abscess over eye - This was growing steadily for months, but I eventually realized it was caused by wifi next to her bed, now the house has no wifi. It's improved a little, losing coloration.

Some more detail and history on Kiki:

• Urinary tract infection (UTI) - She last had this in June 2025 - causing the extreme night screaming/ER visits/peeing all over the house - and was given antibiotics (I would avoid this now), completed late June 2025
• Hyperthyroidism - She was taking a medical Y/D kibble food until just over a month ago and the thyroid supposedly dropped from 14mm to 8 (normal is 4)
• Constipation - She had been to the vet numerous times screaming in the night with constipation and UTI, but these have not come back for a few months
• Choking - She used to have have chronic severe choking, but now it's just vomiting.
• A little heart murmur - probably caused by fast thyroid

Kiki's current primary foods

• Solutions organic Cat Chicken Recipe - Cat Chicken Recipe
• Feline Natural freeze dried chicken
• Running water from a dispenser

My health philosophy
In recent months, I have shifted my own health philosophy to terrain health/medicine and terrain nutrition - under a form of holistic health care. I don't subscribe to homeopathy, however. Prior, I was managing her health via alternative/holistic health means as much as I could, but without a holistic local vet and a very allopathic ER locally so she suffered treatments that I believe were very harmful. I will hopefully never give her another pharma "remedy" to toxify her.

Maybe this was too much information! But I'd be grateful for any insights.

Thank you in advance, Michael

 

[Dr. Christina]

Never too much information, Michael, though we may answer some at a time. good for you to rescue her and to realize the WiFi was contributing to the lump.

1. Where do you live?
2. Read the article on finding holistic veterinarians and go to all the websites. You may be surprised at who is near you. How is Kiki in the car - is it very stressful for her? That is one benefit of homeopathy as it can be prescribed virtually. If available, chinese medicine or homeopathy help the body naturally resolve all the problems (vomiting, yowling, constipation and hyperthyroid even, and maybe the lump).
3. You can purchase urine test strips and glass litter beads so you can see if there is still some UTI.
4. vomiting. Healthy cats do not have hair ball vomiting. Cats do often eat grass when they are nauseous, then vomit, so that is not super abnormal. Both are early warning signs that there is an energetic imbalance (which we know because she is ill in other ways). Vomiting 1-2 times a days is too frequent and does need to be addressed by rebalancing the energy flow. Is the vomiting happening at a regular time of day, or after eating, before eating, etc? That information can help with suggestions to soothe it while you are seeking deeper healing care.
5. The morning yowling can be from many things, and our cat expert Dr. Hofve may chime in on that. Cats often are active at dawn, so it may be just she is looking for food, play, or companionship. Checking in with an animal communicator may give you some guidance here.

Dr. Christina

 

[Dr. Jean Hofve]

Yowling and vomiting are cardinal symptoms of hyperthyroidism, which you are no longer treating having taken her off the y/d. Not that I'm a fan of y/d, but it *was* helping, although her T4 was still extremely high. That needs to be addressed.

Holistic therapies are wonderful but they take time to work, especially in an older kitty. Western medicine is really good at some things--trauma, acute conditions... and this is one that it's pretty adept at treating.

You may wish to consider using a bridge medication like methimazole to manage the disease as you work on getting her stronger overall. Untreated hyperthyroidism can lead to severe heart problems and an painful, sudden death. Here's my paper about it: https://littlebigcat.com/hyperthyroidism/

If she has a lot of hair in her system, you can give something like Vaseline to help it pass through the system and out via the stool, as designed. It sounds like she may benefit from having some cat grass indoors. This is an excellent product, I have worked with the company for decades: https://www.petgreens.com/ Of course, regular deep combing (not brushing) will help minimize the amount of fur she swallows that her system needs to deal with. Hair is extremely irritating to the stomach lining, and it's quite amazing how much they can accumulate that can just sit there for days or even weeks.