I know the only time I ever took steroids they made me absolutely crazy! I couldn't take them. I guess they don't have the same effect on cats though, because I've used them with several cats and there was no difference I could tell besides them seeming to feel better.tchandra simms [EMAIL
True. I know how hard it is. I've never had a negative cat live 18 years. That is a long life. I think the sick ones tend to find me (which I don't mind.I will take care of them). I have lost one to fatty liver disease, one to kidney failure, one to cancer, and one to the other kind of liver
My vet did say that he would SEEM to feel much better
for a few days right after the steroid injection. She
actually described it as a false feeling of well
being. She said he would feel much better than he
really was and that the feeling would wear off
eventually. She was right Buddha felt
What kind of shot did she give him?
What she said is right in that steroids do increase feelings of well-being
but do not cure cancer. But they do shrink the cancer quite a bit
sometimes, and this actually causes them to feel physically better.
Withmy cat Simon, the steroids even made his
This may be true. But someone on the lymphoma list-serve (which you
might want to join, though some of the people on it can be kind of mean if you
are not doing chemo, though there are some people on there who don't do chemo)
had a cat who was 17, I think, when diagnosed, and I think lived
In a message dated 12/16/05 5:16:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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While
that does not temper the pain of seeing him ill now, please remember that it
is a testament to your having made some pretty damn good decisions in the
past.
VERY WELL
STATED!!!
I think it is really different in cats. They actually have a way, way
higher tolerance for steroids than humans or dogs do. The amount of
steroids I gave my cats with lymphoma would not be possible, proportionally, to
give a human or a dog. Cats just have a phenomenally high tolerance for
Agreed,I have heard it IS different in
cats. And for cats, I'm very glad. I would hate to wake up in the
middle of the night to find my kitty glaring down at me from the nightstand with
a tiny knife. (boo, hiss~I'll be here all week!)
Eh-hem, anyways, I did not realize that dogs
also get
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