Forgive me, but I'm not sure of Wolfie's history. With respect to hypercalcemia there are multiple causes. If you want to treat it you need to identify the underlying cause. This is often challenging and the treatment (at least the immediate way to decrease the Ca levels) is with diet, fluids and diuretics. You can try doing this, but if you don't identify the underlyling cause it may return to elevated levels. The question concerning his medical condition and whether or not to proceed is a tough one.
Why does he have hind leg weakness. This can sometimes be a vascular issue (basically a blood clot in one of the large vessels) or felv involving the central nervous system, or an autoimmune process, etc. Are his kidneys okay (tested for with BUN and Creat.) and liver (AST, ALT, albumin, Bilirubin) and bone marrow (anemic? high or low WBC, presence of lymphoma?). Is his appetitie okay? These things would influence my personal decision of proceeding or not. It seems likely that the elevated Calcium is secondary to some other process, if that process cannot be treated, I would probably not proceed with trying to find out why the calcium is elevated and simply provide IV fluids and a change of diet to keep him comfortable while he is here. If the underlying problem can be treated, I would treat that first and change diet and possibly give IV fluids, then watch the calcium and see if it drops. This is a tough decision at times. Iwish you the best of luck and may God bless. Jenny On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Amy <[email protected]> wrote: > I have not used Revolution on Wolfie. > > Wolfie is still acting himself, is eating fine but he is definitely getting > weaker in the back legs. It's really hard to see because I don't think > things are going to get better. He has food and litter on the main floor > but is still choosing to do stairs (making me a nervous wreck). He's > starting to have a tough time with the kitchen floor (linoleum) so I'm > putting carpets down to help. Wish I could do something more for him but I > always feel that way when my leuk positives start going downhill. I hate > this disease. > > Looking for opinions here. Wolfie's calcium was 11.6 when the blood work > was done. Normal is 8.2-11.5. The vet at Cornell wants me to draw another > sample to check his active or ionized calcium to see if his Calcium is > actually high. Would you put your cat through this if your gut is that he > doesn't have long? I asked what we would do if it's high. She said we'd > look at all causes and rule them out and if none of those applied, we'd > alter his diet to try bringing it down. He's anemic and having trouble with > his legs. Would you pursue something like this or let him be in peace? > > Amy > > --- On Sun, 6/27/10, Laurieskatz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Laurieskatz <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Felvtalk] rear leg weakness- Revolution used? > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: "'Carmen Conklin'" <[email protected]> > > Date: Sunday, June 27, 2010, 2:06 PM > > > > > > From: Carmen Conklin [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 12:57 PM > > To: Laurieskatz > > Subject: felvgroup > > > > > > > > Hi, I can't seem to be able to email into the felv group > > today-could you ask > > them a question regarding the Re: weakness in hind legs > > thing?? > > > > I want to know if they had used Revolution on any of the > > cats that had that > > weakness in hind legs problem... Thanks, Carmen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
