Michelle - I have to disagree with you internist - I know that she is trying to figure out what's possible - my gut feeling is that it's not FIP - you could send out Lucy's blood work to University of Glasgow for profile of FIP if you want to be more certain - dr. Addie says, about 75 to 85% of the samples comes to the lab turns out to be not FIP - and they are usually all form the cats who have been diagnosed as possibly FIP by either their regular vet or internist -
As for my cats, I really do know when my cats have FIP or are going to have FIP if I don't do anything about it - or don't have FIP when my vet may suggest that they may have FIP - I have been 100% right about it - I just think, whatever causing Lucy is related to felk virus and not corona virus - as I know from the fact that felk virus does somehow cause anemia and high temperature and fluid as well. I am not a medical doctor, obviously - so I may not be credible -but I have surprised my vet how always right I have been about this - Michelle,, 100% of the time, when my cats had FIP (6 of them) - in addition to hypergloubumia and hypoalbumia (sp) - their total and direct and indirect bilirubin are higher than normal range - and 65% of the cases, they were mild anemia (and become severe anemia in time) corona titer are not necessarily high - and 100% of the times, their amylase are higher (but don't worry about it if all other categories are not higher along with it - as often by itself, it does not mean anything by itself -I really really don't think what Lucy has is FIP - I can't stress it enough - Michelle - you don't want to wait too low to start on epogen as it takes for a while to work,, when HCT/PCV goes down to 18 - that's the time to start - my Ayumi as you may or may not know who has unknown cause of nonregenerative anemia (she is not FIP or CRF kitties) - she has been on epogen since her PCV went to 18 - in three weeks, finally she started to respond and PCV is going up slowly - you need to start epogen right away if it is non regenerative anemia as it may help Lucy as well, but you don't want to run out of time,,, which happened to my felk kitty, tsubomi. _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:15 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: internist thinks Lucy has FIP 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
