Just because it is new, does not make it effective or safe. Look at all the Human drugs that now have lawyers saying "did you take this? I can get you lots of money." One of the doctors my other worked for would not use a drug until it was on the market for 10 years because it usually takes that long for all the side effects to show up.
---- Marsha <[email protected]> wrote: > My vet said that darbepoetin is a newer drug that he felt is safer. But > I'm not sure how much he has used it. I haven't even started > researching it. The cyclophosphamide suppresses Peaches' immune system, > so it may have a protective effect from the immune system. Still > looking for a source for Winstrol. Two local vets are looking it up for > me. Neither has used it for 20-25 years. One said she used to use it a > lot for CRF cats that were anemic and cachexic. She didn't have any > issues with it (adverse or side effects), but doesn't remember it as > anything spectacular either. She cautioned that since Peaches is slowly > improving anyway (appetite - I won't know about blood values until next > week), that I might mistakenly attribute improvement to Winstrol (if I > got some for her), when she was going to improve anyway. Peaches' > primary vet chuckled when I said her oncologist hadn't heard of it - > "She must be young!" he said. So anybody who's looking for Winstrol or > a vet experienced with it, check out the local vets that are in their > late 50's at least. > > Marsha > > On 10/27/2015 6:54 PM, Maya D'Alessio wrote: > > I would be careful about using erythropoeitin or darbepoeitin, both > > have been shown to eventually (but not in every case) cause the cat's > > own immune system to recognize the drug and destroy it, which would be > > less of a problem if that was it, but unfortunately it also starts to > > recognize the cats own natural erythropoeitin and destroy it as well. > > This ends catastrophically badly, as without erythropoeitin, very > > little blood cell production is able to happen in the body. It seems > > to take some time for this reaction to happen, but I was just reading > > up on it for my guy (Merlot), and from what I read I would be very > > hesitant to use it. I would try Winstrol or something else first, > > before I tried the erythropoeitin. > > > _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
