How much does he weigh? And what is the strength of epogen did your vet use? I am emailing you the link regarding information on epogen in case you find it helpful.
http://www.felinecrf.org/anaemia.htm#treatments<http://www.felinecrf.org/anaemia.htm#treatments> ----- Original Message ----- From: Gina WN<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 3:44 AM Subject: Re: To Belinda: Re: Anemia Issues Great idea about the binder! Gina Caroline Kaufmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Monkee's HCT was 13% two weeks ago (when we first went to the Vet because I knew something was wrong). That was on a Tuesday. They gave him .3 of Epogen and sent me home with a tiny bottle to give him sub-cu injections of Epogen that Thurs, and Sat. They increased his predisone (which was 5 mg- I think? the little, small pills), every other day, to one every day; his Vet also added the appetite stimulant, 1/2 a pill twice a day. We did the week of Epogen, went back this Tues. and that is when his HCT count was 10% and his Vet told us the options (marrow biopsy, transfusion, etc). We did the blood transfusion on Wed. and they said after it, his count was up to 15%. The instructions were to just continue the pred and the appetite stim. Nothing was said about the Interferon or Epogen and I was too out of it to ask because I was so shocked by the bill from the transfusion (and all I could think was that we can't afford another one). He was, what I call "Super Monkee" (it speaks for itself) on Wed., after the transfusion. But since then, he's gone down a little bit (not with eating though); but he's defintely less Super Monkee, and he's less bright-eyed. But he is still sleeping better- actual sound sleeping, as opposed to the just laying there and staring into space "sleeping." I have printed your emails and I filed them in "Monkee's Care Binder"- that I have organized with ALL his information and it has dividers and everything. I am going to ask questions from the emails when a Vet ever calls me back! But I decided I need to bring some MAJOR organization to caring for Monkee if I want to do this right, hence the binder! I highly suggest this to anyone who isn't already doing something similar. I take The Monkee Binder with me everywhere. -Caroline -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Belinda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: To Belinda: Re: Anemia Issues Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:22:31 -0700 >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 >happiness is being owned by cats ... > >Be-Mi-Kitties >http://bemikitties.com > >Post Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens >http://adopt.bemikitties.com > >FeLV Candlelight Service >http://bemikitties.com/cls > >HostDesign4U.com [affordable hosting & web design] >http://HostDesign4U.com > >------------ > >BMK Designs [non-profit animals websites] >http://bmk.bemikitties.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Picture this - share your photos and you could win big!<http://g.msn.com/8HMBENUS/2740??PS=47575> Visit my Tigger Tales<http://tiggerwiggins.com/> site! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel<http://travel.yahoo.com/hotelsearchpage;_ylc=X3oDMTFtaTIzNXVjBF9TAzk3NDA3NTg5BF9zAzI3MTk0ODEEcG9zAzIEc2VjA21haWx0YWdsaW5lBHNsawNxMS0wNw--> to find your fit.
