Took my cat Figgy to hospital last night - they don't really have a diagnosis yet except thinking idiopathic vestibular .... he had abnormally low potassium also which they are giving him to raise his levels. Have a plan to take him home later today and hopefully will recover in 72 hrs ... if not then go from there.

In all my years of being around cats Ive never heard of this - if its this particular type of ataxia then cats usually make a full recovery with maybe a permanent headtilt.

It was so frightening finding him on the floor - yowling, unable to stand, and he had the rapid eye movements. They were asking about toxins or medications he might have gotten into but for the life of me I just cant figure what those would be - except maybe he might have gotten something on his feet/fur in the basement (no open containers of anything but its kind of grungy - sawdust from green treated lumber that was missed when vacuuming, that sort of thing). Anyone out there have experience with this sort of thing - just wondering if theres anything I'm missing, any possible household toxins I may have overlooked....? They've been giving himfluids to flush out his system in the event there was a toxin but there's been no change since last night.

Miss my guy.