Lorrie I should add that when I got the original tablets, I got them from a vet for a cat who was diagnosed by the vet as having FIP. When I asked the vet what could be done, he basically told me nothing could be done for the cat. He prescribed the Winstrol and told me that it would help with appetite and keeping the cat's strength up. I had never heard of Winstrol and had no idea what it was. That was probably in the mid to late 90's. The poor cat didn't make it more than a few more days and I had just filled the prescription but didn't have time to give him any of it. The vial full of pills sat in my drawer where I keep all the animal medications (and no, I never throw any away - if faced with a very sick cat found on the side of the road on a Saturday evening of a long weekend, my perspective has always been something is better than nothing - too many bad experiences where I had to wait to take in a sick animal). So, all I knew about Winstrol was that it was something that might help with appetite and overall wellbeing. When we had tried everything to reverse the persistent non-regenerative anemia and other FeLV effects for my darling little Zander, and blood transfusions were no longer a possibility because he had had a transfusion reaction, I literally opened up my drawer and went through everything I had and the only thing was this Winstrol and I figured, "what the hell!" - my baby was dying and nothing was working.
You could have knocked me over with a feather when I started seeing some pinkening in his ivory white gums and inner ears, in a few days. I figured I was desperate and hallucinating, but my husband thought he saw it too. And the weekly blood results I was running, showed a small increase in his haematocrit from 10 to 12 and still we were obviously skeptical. I mean, how likely is it that something rolling around in my drawer for a decade could do what none of the vets said was possible - to turn back on his bone marrow to get red cells produced again? Only after my weekly blood work and Zander recovering fully from a state that every vet said was the end of the road - the virus having infiltrated his bone marrow and the bone marrow now being filled with infected cells that cannot produce red cells or other blood cells - did I allow myself to believe that this might well be a treatment option. Winstrol seems to be able to allow the body to begin producing good cells again. As far as I can see, having looked at this from many many different angles as I tried to understand it scientifically and medically, there is no other explanation that fits other than that the Winstrol can possibly turn back on the bone marrow and allow the bone marrow to start producing normal haematopoetic cells again, which are the progenitor cells that make red cells, white cells and platelets. I feel substantiated in my conclusion, by the fact that Winstrol is used in humans to treat difficult to treat anemias. In the entry on WikiHow, it also states that it is "commonly used by veterinarians on debilitated animals (especially dogs and horses) to improve muscle growth, trigger red cell production, increase bone density and enhance appetite". I don't agree that it is "commonly used", but clearly the vet who originally gave it to me was providing it precisely because my cat was "debilitated" and for no other reason. Obviously, its propensity to increase red cell production, increase bone density, bulk up a debilitated animal and increase appetite, are all characteristics we desperately need in our fight against FeLV, and I would guess that it is quite compatible with other forms of treatment if someone were to add to other things they were trying. Because of its ability to make a sick cat feel better, increase appetite, bulk up a thin, fragile cat, etc., this is the reason I have used in so many other situations other than just FeLV, and as I have posted many times, I have gotten very good results in most situations. Generally speaking, it helps heal damaged tissue (like a spinal lesion in one cat, and a torn knee ligament in Zander) and that's obviously one of the reasons that athletes use it too. Amani -----Original Message----- From: Felvtalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Amani Oakley Sent: May-18-16 3:05 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Winstrol No it doesn't Lorrie. It is a different kind of steroid, not a corticosteroid. It is an anabolic steroid which literally means building up - it causes an increase in chemical reactions that synthesize molecules into the complex structures of tissue - ie - it builds up muscle, tissue, etc. Amani -----Original Message----- From: Felvtalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lorrie Sent: May-18-16 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Winstrol Does anyone know (Amani probably will) if an anabolic steroid also compromises the cat's immune system as steroid like Prednisolone does? Lorrie _______________________________________________ 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
