PS. If it were me I would either find a vet who knows how to work with
epogen or ask your vet to research it, or take research you've done to
him and ask him to work with you. Along with the epogen a cat should be
getting blood builders, nutrived is a good source for this. It has the
iron, vitamin b needed to build blood. Fred's HCT got as low as 24% and
the nutrived got him back up to 30%. Nutrived wouldn't be enough for a
cat with an HCT of 18% or less. I can't remember what is Monkee's HCT?
PS. Bailey had the bone marrow aspirate and that is why we very
strongly suspected cancer somewhere. He had Myloid Dysplastic
(basically there were pre-cancerous cells there). We did every test we
could think of and couldn't find the cancer, even after we got his HCT
to normal, he had no energy and wouldn't eat. He succumbed to
pancreatic cancer which we found after he passed with a necropsy. I
suspected his pancreas was involved because he always was uncomfortable
when I fed him through his feeding tube. He was on high doses of
prednisolone and was getting doxy just incase his hemobartonella test
was a false negative. The pred and the epo are what got his HCT back to
normal and stopped the bone marrow surpression by the virus.
--
Belinda
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