Best of luck to you, Belinda - I've used Georges Aloe Vera for
stomatitis, and also Antirode (Clindamycin), all seemed to help.
I've wondered about essential fatty acids to counter wasting. Was
reading about CLA (Linoleic Acid?). Lots of good vibes for sweet
Bailey.
Gloria
On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:58 AM, Belinda Sauro wrote:
Hi All,
My little Bailey is now anemic, he started losing weight over the
last 2 months and his count was 22 or 23 about 2 weeks ago and
yesterday was down to 18.
We are not positive this is exactly accurate because getting blood
from him is extremely difficult and yesterday we were only able to get
about 1/2 a vial. His gums are getting pale though and he is sleeping
alot and not eating very good. My vet is ordering epogen and we are
going to be starting him on that. One thing I forgot to ask her is if
it is non-regenerative, will do that today. His bloodwork other than
that was pretty good, although there was one other thing that was off
and I will get copies faxed to me so I can see what that was. He had
xrays a week ago Monday and everything there looked OK.
Bailey is 10 years old and has been positive since 5 months of age.
Last year he developed pretty bad stomastisis and after trying
everything under the sun (antibiotics, acupunture, chinese herbs) we
finally pulled all but his canines and tiny teeth in between them.
This seemed to take care of the problem until within the lat couple of
months. I noticed he wasn't eating as good and that's when we did
this last blood work and found the anemia and that his mouth was
inflamed again. He has been on doxy and busperone and I added
antirobe the last couple of days with the vets OK, and his mouth
looks nice and healed but his gums are pretty pale. I syringe fed
him for a few days and he is eating a bit on his own. If he
doesn't pick up his eating today it will be back to syringing again
which he really hates.
He is on raw which he loves and got up to 11 pounds, but his weight
now is at 8lbs 10oz, so in the last 2 monts he has lost over 2 pounds
and a pound of that was in the last 2 weeks.
Any suggestions I can bring to my vet?? She is very good about trying
things I suggest. I seem to remember someone from this list said
they were having luck with immunoregalan (was that you Kerry?).
Has anyone used epogen and immunoregalan together?? I asked my vet
about immunoregalan and she said she thought the epogen would be
better to try, anyone have any comments about that???
Thanks for any ideas or suggestions I can pass on to my vet, and hope
everyones furkids are doing well!! :)