Message below, from Clara, claims seroconversion from weekly sub-q shots of Immuno-Regulin. Have any of you heard of this? I am assuming not, since there has been no discussion of it on the list. She emailed me an article, page by page (4 emails) which I will forward as well.
Michelle
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Hello Michelle,
Sent you a message last week but it was returned to me yesterday for ?
reason so will send again. I spoke to my vet at length today as to m-reg
therapyindeed the drug Ihave beengiving my cat is
Immuno-Regulin Propionibacterium Acnes, Immunostimulant by Immunovet in Tampa,
Fl. He said that in his practice he'd had quite a few cases of complete
remission with sub-Q injections. Evidentally the recommended dose is
0.4cc for a 10 lb cat.Lulu was started at 0.4cc bi-weekly for the
first two weeks then we went to 0.4cc once weekly and have continued this until
now (she is still testing positive after having been on treatment for about 4-5
months). I asked specifically as to whether it was better to give it IV,
IMor subQ, he pooh-poohed IV and said thatit mainlyblew veins
and gave vets a reason to charge a lot for the procedure, IM was painful and
destructive to tissues,and thatwith subQ, the medicine
wasgetting to the same tissues with less traumaand an additional
benefit was thatthe same amountof medicine was absorbed slowly by
the tissues and over a longer period of time. He again mentioned the study
that had shown a 77% remission rate over a period of 6 yrs and confirmed to me
that long term therapy would be possible with this drug without risk of side
effects, in fact he said that there were no harmfull reactions over the long
term. He mentioned a vet thatused m-Reg with horses in controlling
wartsthis vetinjected0.25cc subQ directly underneath each
wart.he guarantees results with this treatment and says that he's
never had to administer a 2nd dose.
We'd taken Lulu to the vet initially because of sudden itchy, running,
crusted, eyes with open sores which simply would not resolve with anything that
I'd tried. She'd hadpersistent moist lungs from time to time and
this had given me the nagging feeling that she was leukemia positive; in
combination with the eyes, there was no longer any doubt that she was
infected. She had been a feral cat when we took her in, but by now had
become a loved member of our family so we couldn't just put her down or let her
die on the vine. Under the vet's direction we initially treated the eye
condition with an opthalmic ointment and the chest with an oral suspension
ALBON, (sulfadimethoxine, a sulfonamide, am sure you know).I also gave the
cat 500mg of crushed up lysine/H20 daily by mouthas I was worried that we
were dealing with herpes eventhough it didn't look like it. Lulu improved
dramaticallyover the next few weeks. I continued to give her the
Lysine even after discontinuing the opthalmic ointment figuring that if it was
working I didn't want to rock the boat and athat it probably would't hurt
her...the vet agreed...finally it just became too much of a battle giving her
this most hated liquid---at medicine time she'd be nowhere to be found and it
was altering our friendship, so I let it go and Luluhas beennone the
worse for discontinuing those meds.
As I indicated to you previously she is still positive test-wise but looks
and apparently feels so much better that we are not really worrying about the
the continued positive test.As long as she is feeling better we are
happy. The vet indicated that because Lulu was a young, healthy cat with
minimal symptoms and no wasting and little or no signs of other serious organ
systems involvement that she stood a very good chance of sero-converting at some
point.
So that's my story. At any rate, the vet is charging me $12.50 for
0.4cc, so at $31.25 per cc I figure he is making about $4687.50 per each 150cc
bottle that I see listed tor $159.00 at Revival. We just don't have that
kind of money so have I begun checking into the prospect of buying the drug
myself over the internet. The next hurdle will be to acquire syringes
without a prescription, but I'll tackle that when I have to. I
haven't had a chance to check withRevival yet as to ordering, but I sure
am hoping that it is available without prescription...I think that this
might be a natural or herbal remedy so am hopeful that an Rx is not
required.
The vet gave an article from a vetrinary magazine round table discussion
about m-Reg and it is quite interestingwould be glad to scan it and forward
it along to you page by page if you like. He also told me that Immunovet
had sent him literature about the drug but he didn't have copies of that
anymore, probably could get hold of that by contacting the manufacturer
directly.
Hope this information has been of help to you.
Your friend,
Carol van Maarth
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