Yes, she is anemic. I'm not sure what her HCT is. She's been on doxy for about a week now. We don't know if it's Hemobart/Mycoplasma since that's an additional test, but I'd rather be safe than sorry since I did lose one to Hemobart last year.
--- On Thu, 4/23/09, Belinda Sauro <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Belinda Sauro <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Charlotte is going back to the vet tommorrow > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 10:52 PM > Hi Laurie, > I'm not familiar with what is going on with > Charlotte, is she anemic and if so what is her HCT? If she > is anemic has she been on doxocycline for at least 4 weeks? > Positive cats commonly get something called hemobartonella, > it is acually recently called something else but it is a > parasite and very hard to get an accurate test for. It > causes anemia and is treated commonly with doxy. Most vets > will put a positive kitty on it if they are anemic just to > be on the safe side. I know one person who had her cat > tested 5 times and come up negative and on the 6th test was > positive. Even if she isn't positive the doxy won't > hurt her but if she is positive may save her life. > > My Bailey was on epogen when he was anemic, his HCT was at > 20% when we ordered the epogen and down to 18% when we > started it. It can take several weeks for it to kick in and > the HCT may continue to go down for as many as 3 or 4 weeks, > Bailey got as low as 15% before his HCT started going up. > In about 6 weeks he as at 40% and on the epogen we > maintained his HCT at 33% to 25%. He was on it for 5 months > before he passed of undiagnosed pancreatic cancer. We found > the cancer upon necropsy. I know many, many CRF kitties who > are on epogen and there is an Anemia list that you many want > to look into. Many vet will poopoo epogen for a positive > cat but when the choice is do nothing and the cat WILL die > or try epogen and the cat may live I'll always take the > chance, if the cat is going to die anyway there is nothing > to loss and everything to gain!!! There are other things > and some people thing they are better, aranesp and procrit > both help with anemia. Procrit and epogen are basically the > same thing, the aranesp is something new and some say it has > less of a chance of causing an antibody reaction (antibody > reaction means basically that the epogen doesn't work > anymore and you are back where you started), it is estimated > between 10 and 30% of cats on epogen can develope antibodies > in 5 or more months. I personally know of several cats on > epogen for much longer with no problems, one cat Jean Luc > was on it for 2 years, he would have been dead long before > without it. He had lymphoma and CRF. > > -- > Belinda > happiness is being owned by cats ... > > http://bemikitties.com > > http://BelindaSauro.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
