Helene, I'm sorry to hear that Delilah has to have meds for hyper-T, but I think you are wonderful for sticking it out with her. It's so hard to give meds, so the transdermal has been a Godsend for our little Julie. I can't tell you exactly what her T4 is right now. Everytime we go to the vet, it's 35$ for the office visit, plus another I don't know how much for what else. Everytime it's about $100, and we just shelled out several thousands for a new a/c unit and my husband's back. BUT, I do know that Julie is doing fine on the meds. She's not meowing in the middle of the night hardly at all or showing the other symptoms she does without the meds. I don't think the absorption rate is as consistent with the transdermal, but I think this can somewhat be controlled by using the same pharmacy everytime (assuming the pharmacy doesn't change the distributor of the compound). I am glad Delilah did well on the 5 mg. 2x a day. My vet asked me to do the same dosage, even though I asked him to try half that, which is what everyone on the hyper-T board recommends, and she had a lot of side effects, even with the transdermal. So she's still on half that and doing well. MUCH better than trying to pill her. LOL!
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