Re: Anemia - My Cat Arlo has severe anemia - PLEASE HELP

2005-12-27 Thread catatonya
Hi Chris,It sounds like you are doing everything you can. The report from the doctor sounds like he/she knows what they are doing.I hope others have some ideas for you. I only know to tell you to hope that this IS hemobartonella. If it is it can be cured.I don't know that I would

Re: Anemia - My Cat Arlo has severe anemia - PLEASE HELP

2005-12-27 Thread Lernermichelle
Your vet seems good. However, knowing the FeLV status will not help you treat this. FeLV itself is not a diagnosis regarding the anemia. It might be the reason your boy got whatever he has that is causing the anemia, but that is not so relevant now. What is relevant is whether the anemia is

RE: Anemia - My Cat Arlo has severe anemia - PLEASE HELP

2005-10-15 Thread Tracy Weese
Did they do that test that checks to see if there are all stages of the RBC development? It's some kind of stain test, something Blue. I wish I could remember it--when one of my cats got several anemic, he was determined to have Hemobart (he was FeLV+) and so I said we would treat that since I

Re: Anemia - My Cat Arlo has severe anemia - PLEASE HELP

2005-10-15 Thread felv
What grade is his heart murmur? The roman numeral you posted makes NO sense. That would be my first major concern. there are so many drugs that vets use that are not safe to use on cats with severe heart murmurs. Starting treatments for hemobart is the right thing to do, hopefully that is

Re: Anemia - My Cat Arlo has severe anemia - PLEASE HELP

2005-10-15 Thread Lernermichelle
When they are not producing RBC's, Epogen or Procrit sometimes helps. This is because failure to produce RBC's sometimes comes from the kidneys not sending a hormone they are supposed to send out that tells the bone marrow to produce RBC's. Procrit and Epogen are synthetic copies of that