Please use the search engine or one of the indexes to see if the information you need is already online. Please see Subscriber info for details. The first time, she was treated for inflammatory bowel disease. The second time, an ultrasound revealed that her pancreas was inflamed, so they were better able to diagnose the problem. I think the vet said that even the scent of food at the time would cause the pancreas to react.
Pancreatitis is hard to definitively diagnose in cats.
Therefore, it is not as well described as pancreatitis in dogs. Acute pancreatitis seems to be rare in cats but pancreatitis does seem to occur chronically in cats, probably much more often than we realize. Pancreatitis in cats is signaled by a reluctance to eat, vomiting, jaundice and weight loss. During the acute illness it can be beneficial to use pain relieving medications. Pancreatitis is pretty painful in dogs and they seem to do much better with pain relief.