I'm not sure about the other, but pneumonia can really make a cat feel bad. Amoxicillan may not be strong enough. I'd call the vet back and ask if a different antiobiotic might help more. I know Baytril is a stonger antibiotic but I don't know if that's the best or not I just know that Amoxi isn't that strong. LIke Marta said it's a lot of his age, etc. as far as FeLV goes and how his body reacts to it, but you can't play with pneumonia and that may be all it is that's making him feel bad. Did he have a chest x-ray to confirm pneumonia? If he's been on Amoxi two weeks I'd definitely have him re-checked and another x-ray or just switch antibiotics at the very least. I'm very paranoid about pneumonia because I had a kitten that had it and the stupid vet didn't diagnose it (in this case the vet was stupid because I suggested chest x-rays and she said no) and the kitten turned septic and died. Septic meaning the infection spread into her bloodstream. Doesn't happen that often and it was just a kitten but l learned not to play with pneumonia. Course she had an URI and then pneumonia for 3 months so it took a long time to kill her so I'm not saying that could happen to your cat. I'm just saying to make sure it's taken care of because that is treatable. But with FeLV on top of pneumonia you need to fight the infection as hard as you can in my untrained opinion. There's several other stronger antibiotics but Baytril and Doxycycline (part of the tetracycline family) are the two stronger ones that come to mind.
“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t….the pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.” – Mark Twain Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:47:34 -0800 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] how long does it take for an infected cat to regain its strength? So sorry..he could be undergoing the first stage(sickly for a couple of weeks or so then recovers and if asymptomatic can live years) or not, be in the last stages, if he is in the last stages depending on age, what organs were infected etc, might live weeks to a year..hard to tell without a test that can tell you where virus is..just from what described sounds like months but this is just a quess, what test did he have? The in-house? Or an IFA? IFA is definitive though pricey. And how old is your kitty? Marta http://homelessnomore.webs.com/ --- On Tue, 11/22/11, Dana Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dana Jarvis <[email protected]> Subject: [Felvtalk] how long does it take for an infected cat to regain its strength? To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 1:12 PM My cat was diagnosed on Nov.10th but had been sick probably a couple of weeks prior to diagnosis. He was laying around the house alot and not really acting his playful self. I thought he had worms so when I took him to the vet I was shocked because I never heard of this virus. He also had pneumonia. He is still weak and has no appetite which I syringe feed him food 4 times a day with nutri-cal and hills. He's been on amoxacillin for 2 weeks and just started on AZT on Sunday. Does anyone know how long it will take or just on average when he will start showing any signs of his immune system taking care of this virus. I know it's specific to the cat but I would like to know what I am looking at as far as him getting better or if he will be able to tackle this. He sure is a fighter and I am willing to do anything it takes to get him better. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ 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
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