Swollen paw
My cat is almost 12 years old, a neutered male, and has had a swollen paw for about a month now. At first I thought it was just his outermost toe bean which looks bigger than normal, but the top of that side of his paw feels bigger too. He’s still walking on it normally, climbing, and scratching his scratch post, and acting normal in general. I took him to see a vet who said it might be an infection, broken bone, some other random benign bone changes, or very unlikely something like bone cancer. She said he is not in any pain which is why it’s unlikely to be “something dangerous” like bone cancer, because those things are usually very painful. He got the antibiotic synolux and loxicom anti inflammatory for 10 days which didn’t reduce the swelling so I think that rules out an infection. The next thing we can do is get an X-ray but I’m a little bit hesitant due to his age and that they’d have to put him under to perform the X-ray, or alternatively just leave it alone since it’s not bothering him, but I also don’t really want to do that incase it IS something worse. So I’d just like some second opinions on what it may be and if there’s any other alternative tests etc that we could do first that would be less invasive. I have attached photos of his paw