KC
Kayleigh Conroy
Aug 29, 2025
If you feel like you are not being listened to about your pet's illness here, I highly recommend seeking out a different opinion. This vet will continue to run the same tests over and over again and drain your wallet, and never give any other suggestions or look deeper into the issue. Also, bedside manner is terrible here. It always felt like we were being rushed out of the room, like they didn’t have enough time to talk to us about the problems we were having or the questions we had. Medical jargon was spewed at us with no explanation of what it meant, and I felt stupid for even trying to talk about the research I had done on my own (mostly because I didn’t feel like we were addressing the full scope of what we could do)
Our cat was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism at the start of this year. He was throwing up, not finishing his food, and losing weight. When he received his diagnosis, we were told that often hyperthyroidism masks kidney disease, so we began treating him for both. We came back many times for testing to be done, his numbers would stabilize or improve, but he continued to lose weight. Several months went by, we get the full diagnosis for kidney disease. We were basically told to just wait around for him to die, since there is no cure for CKD. No suggestion for appetite stimulant (I had to suggest this on my own after doing research, and was met with "oh sure, we could give him that"), no suggestion for higher calorie supplements, fluids, phosphorous binders, NONE of that was recommended to us. The only thing they kept telling us was "well he just has to eat, get him to eat". We expressed that we were willing to go to great lengths to maintain a high quality of life and I felt that we were dismissed. He told us it "may be a gastrointestinal problem" which would be "thousands to assess" (no suggesting on a specialist to visit). On our last visit to this vet, we were told that his kidney ranges were in the normal, but he still was losing weight (even though he was eating) at thing point he has lost basically half of his body weight within 6 months. He was also supposed to be rechecked for a UTI which the vet FORGOT to do and had to be reminded, which prompted him to lie and say "oh, the results must have been messed up, we need to take him back again".
At this point we're so tired of these people, so we take him to a different vet. Looking at him and his records, they immediately suggest that we get imaging and x-rays done. Lo and behold, he has a tumor in his thyroid. Never ONCE did broad street suggest this, to the point where I was convinced it couldn't possibly be cancer because in the 6 months and countless visits we had gone to that had NEVER been recommended.
Ultimately, it is too little too late. I will spend the rest of my life wondering if we gone somewhere different, if we had caught the tumor sooner, when he was still stronger, when his numbers were better, when he wasn't so thin, maybe we could have gotten it removed and he could have recovered, and we could have continued to manage the kidney disease the best we could. Our cat is young, only 7, and we WANT to fight and continue to give him the best life possible, and it just feels like we were being worked against the whole time while we were at Broad street.
If you have an animal with a chronic condition and you feel like you've been written off, you very well may have been. I would not recommend this practice.