I introduced myself and my little FeLV girl Eden the other day. She'd had a
couple of episodes of fever and anorexia last week. She was treated at my vet's
office and was able to come home on Saturday. She's been doing pretty well but
last night we noticed a big improvement in her. She was relaxing and cleaning
herself rather then being curled up sleeping all the time. She looked so good
and I was so happy to see her being pretty normal. I'm doing assisted feeding
with her although she will eat small amounts of food on her own. And she is
drinking pretty well too. The vet that treated Eden was not my regular vet as
he was off last week but I had a chance to talk to him about Eden yesterday. He
doesn't have much confidence in the current treatments for FeLV and said there
are no studies that show that any of them offer any benefit. He said he's only
had one person interested in doing interferon and it didn't do anything for
their FeLV cat. He said he's willing to try it if I want to but I'm not sure if
I should pursue it since Eden is now doing so well on her own. She is still on
antibiotics. Her blood work showed low WBC and neutrophils but her red blood
cells and hematocrit were normal so we know she's not anemic. We had an
incident last night with one of our other cats that completely stressed Eden
out and caused a bit of a set back. One of our other cats, who is completely
crazy, just came out of nowhere and jumped Eden, knocking her over. Eden is a
small cat, only 7 lbs, so it doesn't take much to knock her over. But she was
not happy the rest of the evening and this morning seemed to wake up with a
fever. But her attitude is still great, she ate for me this morning and as I
left for work she was sitting in my husband's recliner just happily cleaning
herself. She seems to have brief episodes of fever that seem to resolve on
their own so I don't think I need to worry too much about those as long as
she's still eating and drinking but I was curious if others see this in their
FeLV cats too. It also seems that at least a few people have just automatically
started treatment for their FeLV cats. Eden is young so we feel that she
deserves every chance we can give her but I'm still on the fence about starting
any treatment on her. Is there any general thoughts on when to start treatment
or even if anyone should start treatments?
Brenda
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