Re: Hypertension and Kerry-OT

[catatonya]

LOL!  When I started reading your post I realize I told my doctor that I had been on methamizole for my hyp0thyroid previously. ha. She asked about it and I said yes, 'something like that'! lol.  If I hadn't already told her I was crazy that might have given it away.

 

Who can remember all these medicines for cats AND people???

 

t

Kerry MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Wendy
My oldest, Katyis, recently---about a month ago--was diagnosed hyperthyroid.
He's been prescribed a quarter of what appears to be a 5mg methimazole pill
daily. (He was supposed to be getting it twice daily but I have to go away
today for 2 weeks and the petsitter will be coming only once daily--the vet
said 1/4 once a day was fine).
I tried to research diet--or at least find out more about the success of
Anitra Frazier's dietary recommendation in her book The New Natural Cat--but
so far have come up with nothing. I would be very interested to know if it
can be reversed with diet.
Sorry i can't be of help re your Qs Wendy---sounds like we've run into this
at the same time!
Kerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "wendy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: Hypertension and Julie, our geriatric kitty


> Hi guys,
>
> I took Julie to the vet this past Friday because she
> was having pain going to the bathroom the Sunday
> before and had a little blood around her genitals. I
> couldn't get her to the vet until Friday so I gave her
> Baytril I had left over from Cricket starting on
> Sunday, which wiped out whatever bacterial infection
> she might have had, and all her renal functions seemed
> to be back to normal by Friday. But I took her in
> anyway just to be sure, and they ran a urinalysis and
> total blood/labwork on her. Saturday the vet called
> me and said her results showed hypertension (she got a
> 17 on her T4 results, normal is between .4 and 5.2)
> and he prescribed 10 mg of Tapazole/Methimazole daily.
> I have to bring her in in two weeks for further blood
> work to see how the drugs are helping her thyroid.
> Does anyone here have any experience with
> hyperthyroidism in their kitty, and what did you do
> about it? What does T4 measure? Did your kitty pass
> away from the hyperthyroidism? Did the drugs reverse
> the heart murmur? What diet would be good for a kitty
> with hyperthyroidism? Any advice is greatly
> appreciated!
>
> :)
> Wendy
>
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