Hi Michelle My prayers are with you for your sweet Lucy. I had a cat many years ago die supposedly of FIP in the early seventies. He was a wonderful tabby and white cat named Bud. He died while I was away at school. My parents were waiting for me to come home that weekend so I could see him. He went off that same week. Although the diagnosis was a guess based on symptomolgy. I do know antibiotics did not help him. It is a shame after all these years there is still not much they can do.
Prayer can work miracles and I am an example of that. I am fully recovered from an autoimmune disease I had in the mid 70's called dermatomyositis. I find out 22 years after I was first diagnosed that most people with this disease stay on medication all their lives. I was able to wean myself off the prednisone in 4 years. I honestly though my result was normal. I find out that maybe 5% recover to the extent that I did.This disease almost killed me. The treatment for the disease today is basically the same as 30 years ago. I am in remission according to the doctors at NIH. I will pray for you to have strength as well. Love Sally On 1/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, the internist thinks Lucy has FIP. Despite the abdominal effusion, she thinks it is dry FIP because the fluid does not look like FIP fluid, and that the fluid is resulting from the effects of FIP on other organs. She thinks it's FIP because of something that was found in the biopsy of the lymph node, I can't remember what it is called but something like granular something, or granulitis, or granuloma, which goes with FIP and not with most other kinds of inflammation. Other possibilities are infection somewhere, the effects of her IBD inflammation, or pancreatitis, but she said that the lymph node being the way it is normally goes only with FIP so she really thinks it is that. I am of course very distressed by this. She said she could do exploratory surgery to diagnose better, but I do not see the point since FIP is not treatable. I want instead to try to treat for the other things it could be. So a broad spectrum antibiotic with anearobic properties (she said clavamox or clindamycin-- any ideas which i should do, I have both?). And up her steroids for IBD/pancreatitis. And perhaps switch her diet to a novel protein diet if there is one that would also be ok for pancreatitis. And she is on feline interferon and I would like to get acemannan, and then monitor her HCT and if it goes too low try epogen. any thoughts? Has anyone actually had an internist, rather than a primary care vet, say FIP when it was not? distressed, michelle
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