I'm just curious. What condition was your vet treating with Prednisone?
Was it just due to being FeLV+, or were there symptoms the vet was treating?
I've been giving prednisone for anemia, but I am trying to wean my kitty off
of it. I've been suppressing his immune system for 2 months now, and I
don't think that is the best thing for him.
Cassandra
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From: "Elizabeth Paz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 6:41 PM
Subject: Prednisone and doing great......
Hi Teresa,
My cat was diagnosed with felv when he was 2 yrs old, he is now 7 1/2.
It was such a shock at the time as I have had so many cats and this was
the first time I had ever heard of felv.
He was put on 5 mg of Prednisone a day and is still going strong and I do
mean strong. The vet began lowering the dose after the first year and
slowly continued. We now give him 2.5 every other day and have been doing
so for about 2 yrs now. We did try to take him off of it completely, but
after about 3 months we noticed he was a bit hangy so we started it back
up again and if you could see him he is a chunk and so healthy.
It's so hard to know we share this world with people that dump or throw
little beating hearts away like garbage. God Bless people like you
Teresa.
From: Teresa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Prednisone?
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 10:35:48 -0500
I recently have acquired several felv+ cats, the one who is sick at the
moment is a pathetic case who was dropped off on the highway "near" a
farm, a very popular dumping spot I've been monitoring for the past few
years. Many or most of them end up at home with me if they seem not to be
faring well at the farm. Anyway, turns out this poor thing is totally
blind as well as felv+. I mean he sees NOTHING. I've had many cats who
were "legally blind" but this one doesn't even react to bright light. He
was dumped, in winter no less, along a highway roaring with 18 wheelers
night and day. How this critter ever lived this long, he's probably 4-5
years old, is totally beyond me.
Well I did not mean to get harping that, I'll never get off it. It just
makes me sick to my stomach. Timmy is the most loving, slobbering,
kissable, hugable, sweet thing to come along for a long time. But I have
to guide him to his food dish and this is inside his cage. I mean, how has
he LIVED? I suspect whoever dropped him didn't realize he was blind. Cats
can sure fool you. But then again, seems it would be hard for him to fool
anyone when he has to be shown his food dish. My understanding is that
this farm only "feeds" cats that are dumped off "dog food and cow milk",
so the daughter told me a couple years ago. And the night I picked him up,
Timmy's stomach was making very loud growling noises for several hours,
and seemed distended. That all went away in a day or so and I attributed
it to drinking milk
Ok, what I was checking the list for was, some time ago I thought I saw
some info on prednisone use in felv+ cats but I don't find it now. (Also
several of the links from the felv site do not work at the moment,
including the Cornell info one.) I haven't been giving Timmy pred, or
anything solely for his felv, but he's gotten this upper respiratory that
is going through my flock and got real sick with it and is now improving
with baytril spiked with some dexamethasone just to allow him to breathe
better etc. But I understood that pred can be beneficial in felv. Actually
I think I snatched him from the jaws of death this time, my fingers are
still crossed. Another felv+, Inky, that I picked up at the same time,
just died last night from this virus, in spite of the most intensive
treatments we could give him.
I do have a wonderful vet. But of course I still like to double check up
to put into context, what he might be saying about this subject or others.
But he has won my confidence over the past 5 years but again, YOU GUYS are
the real experts.
So can anyone tell me where the pred info is or any thoughts on building
Timmy up for future battles? I've been sort of subconsciously switching
him over to people food, first as a means of enticing him to eat but the
more I've been thinking about this pet food adulteration situation, the
more it seems to answer my questions for such a long time now, about why
kidney failure seems to be such a big issue with cats these days. What
have we been feeding our cats lately? I guess we have no way of really
knowing. At least people food is usually more recognizable, you can SEE a
piece of meat or a carrot. With cat food, who knows? And now they say even
fish meal is contaminated, and that seems to be used in almost all cat
foods. He loved chicken noodle soup (low salt kind) and went nuts for some
chicken ala king awhile ago, also a little tuna. Oh yes, he is very very
hard to pill! He will crouch in the far part of his big cage where I can't
reach him and hold it against me for a few days if I even try it. I try to
stick to injectible baytril. So it would seem giving a lot of vitamins and
supplements would be out.
Thanks for listening.
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