Re: Belinda

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Belinda,       Dexamethasone and Depomedrol are much more powerful than prednisolone.  Buddy, Josephine, and Simon were all on pred initially (Jo and Buddy at 20 mg/day for a while), but it did not make anywhere near the kind of difference as the dex/depo shots did.  I believe the same was true for Jen's Ewok. I would try them.  I seriously would also ask to try the first of the chemo drugs, again can not remember the name but starts with E, because it can not hurt, I do not think, and if it helps you will know it is probably lymphoma and can treat as such.       No, Simon did not waste away much. He started to, but when he rebounded from the steroids and chemo he actually started gaining weight. But he had multicentric lymphoma in his bone marrow and liver, and it did not really affect his appetite accept when he was jaundiced, and did not cause much muscle wasting either. Jo and Buddy both had terrible weight loss and muscle wasting. Jo had lymphoma in her kidneys and intestines. Buddy was never definitively diagnosed-- he had no masses anywhere, and at the time I did not know how to humanely go about finding if there was cancer in any of his organs, so we just treated him with steroids. In the beginning Buddy was actually eating normally but still losing weight.   Michelle     In a message dated 2/3/2006 1:54:55 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:   Hi Michelle,   No it isn't time for considering letting him go, I just don't know what else we can try, the prdnisolone is the thing that is suppose to help with this anemia and from what I can tell so far it isn't.  he did just get over the diarrhea yesterday so he had that for a long, long time and I'm sure that has really drained him.  It's the shape his body seems to be in that really has me worried.  Every cat I have ever had get cancer looked exactly like this, bony even when getting enough food and acting fairly normal, Buddie was like this when she had cancer and she was having a very good quality of life, just bony. He has no energy although he is out in the room, instead of laying in the carrier all the time.  He has been out in the open since yesterday and coincidentally also when the diarrhea was for the most part gone (he had one bowel movement that was mostly solid but had some runny at the end of it yesterday or this morning, I can't even remember).  HIs bottom is still alittle red and inflamed but so much better than it was.  He gets his epogen tonight which will make 4 complete weeks. Was Simon wasting away, in the photos he looked pretty good?