Re: [Felvtalk] Interferon And Other Medicine Questions

2009-11-29 Thread Hotmail Junk
I had my cat on Interferon, LTCI, and Pred. He was given the death sentence by a University Vet, sent home to die. That was over a year ago. He is now FeLV negative, which we were told it was in his bone marrow. We are working on research and trials of different meds for anemia. The high

Re: [Felvtalk] Interferon And Other Medicine Questions

2009-11-29 Thread Gary
Do you have a website or something detailing your research, testing data, etc.? What trials for anemia are you involved with? Is your cat on any medications now? Was your cat on Interferon alpha or FOI? If on alpha, was he at the usual 30 unit dosage? How many LTCI shots did he have before

Re: [Felvtalk] Interferon And Other Medicine Questions

2009-11-29 Thread Ashley Vanover
I would be grateful for any more information you could provide as your cat's situation sounds so much like my little Kong's. Bless you for being willing to spend so much money on searching for treatment. It is people like you who are going to make a difference and help us all find new and

[Felvtalk] Emergency in Albuquerque--please cross-post

2009-11-29 Thread Kerry MacKenzie
Hideyo Yamamoto, a former longstanding and incredibly hard-working member of the list, has today sent word of an emergency situation in Albuquerque, NM: a close friend of Hideyo's, and fellow cat rescuer, has passed away suddenly and tragically at age 50, leaving behind 150 cats she took care

Re: [Felvtalk] WBC/RBC/platelet count decreasing

2009-11-29 Thread dlgegg
to Amy - i took Neupogen myself (had perpherial T Cell Lymphoma)when took first chemo. it brought my white count back up. i was on 4 chemicals including prednisone and my white count dipped way low. then when my red count dropped to 3.4, they put me on Procrit. it brought my count up, but

Re: [Felvtalk] Nibbler Has Gone On - Please Add To CLS

2009-11-29 Thread dlgegg
I feel so fortunate, I have not lost any of my babies since last February. Even my 2 positives are doing so well. I feel God has truly blessed me and hope for the rest of this year and the next, He blesses all of you also. It would be great to read only good posts on the site. dorlis

Re: [Felvtalk] Scratchy meow

2009-11-29 Thread dlgegg
Hello Anna, you are so right, pay attention . that is most important. half of the world's problems could be averted if only people paid attention to others and listened to what they are trying to communicate to us. Anna Waltman anna.walt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tracy, My vocal 1 1/2

Re: [Felvtalk] Interferon And Other Medicine Questions

2009-11-29 Thread Hotmail Junk
There has been no rhyme or reason as to why Gray Kitty has been through so much. He is such a fighter! We hope to use any succesful treatment we find, to share and educate. We work on the anemia right now and am going to try a new drug that has less side effects than the current high

Re: [Felvtalk] Interferon And Other Medicine Questions

2009-11-29 Thread Hotmail Junk
Gary, At the moment all our data and graphing is on excel spreadsheets that we email weekly to the specialist I Michigan. Between he and our family vet, we adjust the pred dosage. We are currently reviewing some new meds with less side effects, for his anemia. He was on the interferon,