Re: [Felvtalk] Where to buy Interferon Alpha

2013-06-13 Thread I-Chun C. C. Chang
I got mine from the Roadrunner. I did also asked around local pharmacies, and in fact most human compounding pharmacies can dilute interferon alpha 2b for you as long as you tell them the strength you want. For the interferon alpha 2a (the Referon-A) it has been discontinued in the States, but

[Felvtalk] Meowko passed, and interferon alpha 2b available

2013-05-27 Thread I-Chun C. C. Chang
Dear friends, Thank you very much for the great support over the last several weeks. Meowko is now an angel. She crossed the rainbow bridge on May 26th, around 8:45pm US eastern daylight saving time. Her passing was peaceful, but for whole my family, our life would never be the same without her.

Re: [Felvtalk] Ember

2013-05-14 Thread I-Chun C. C. Chang
I have been using petflow for small brand and prescription food, including tiki cat: http://www.petflow.com/ Petflow ships quickly and has pretty good deals. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:22 PM, kellymach...@comcast.net wrote: -pet Original Message - From: Margo

[Felvtalk] inconsistent results from the snap and IFA tests

2013-05-11 Thread I-Chun C. C. Chang
Dear friends, We earlier did a snap ELISA test for my 16 yrs old indoor late stage CKD girl, Meowko, which was positive. But We just got her confirmatory IFA test back on Thursday, which is negative. In order to confirm whether the first snap test was false positive, we did the snap test again.

Re: [Felvtalk] New member from Nebraska

2013-05-10 Thread I-Chun C. C. Chang
Dear Marta, While searching for possible treatments, you may want to at least consider stopping using Metacam: http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm231254.htm I personally know several cats died because of Metacam before other diseases take them. There are some alternative

Re: [Felvtalk] What to feed a finicky, sick kitten?

2013-05-02 Thread I-Chun C. C. Chang
Dear Amanda, Here is a list of food I have been trying with my very picky Felv+, CRF stage 4, 16 yrs old cat: Can food: Soulistic glee fish based cans (Petco store brand, the crf group finds that it generally works works well to make cats to eat again) AvoDerm TunaCrab Fancy Feast, Classic

[Felvtalk] seeking advice for treating FeLV positive old CKD cats with the new drugs

2013-04-24 Thread I-Chun C. C. Chang
Dear Felvalk friends, I am very new to this group and was hoping to get some advice for the treatment about my currently very sick cat. My cat is 16 years old, who came to the States with me 6 years ago. I got her when she was 7 (she was abandoned by the previous house owner...) After I got