Re: Lucy again

[Pam Norman]

Michelle,   My Paddy who was  20 at the time (he is now 21 1/2!) was on 10 mg of prednisolone for about 6 months . When I tapered him, it was very very gradually. Several months on 7.5 mg per day, then 5 mg, & now he is on a permanent daily dose of 2.5.    Does Lucy have any of the usual symptoms?:  Vomiting, diarrhea?  Loss of weight?   Pam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have prayers to spare in this terrible week with so many sick cats, please say a little one for Lucy.  This time she relapsed at 7.5 mg/day of pred.  I am more worried that her ibd could be morphing into lymphoma, as that is a pretty high dose. But maybe I just tapered her too quickly. I am back up to 10 a day and will taper more slowly, but am worried my vet will not refill as he thinks that is too much pred and that she should get a scope if she needs that much. Though I don't see the point, since even if she has lymphoma they would put her on that much pred anyway, and if the pred stops working they use leukeran with both lymphoma and severe ibd, so what is the point of the 3 hours of driving and invasive probes.  But I will have to see, because if my local vet will not keep prescribing the pred when she needs it, I may have no choice. Michelle