[Felvtalk] LTCI

[Susan Loesch]

I appreciate all the input on LTCI. We were all set to take DeeDee,our little felv girl, to one of the few vets in Arkansas using it. Our vet had contacted their office to set it up and planned to purchase a supply if the first 3 shot series seemed to be helping. Unfortunately DeeDee went downhill in 24 hours and we lost her. 

She was apparently born positive and 
was about 18mo old...about the normal life expectancy for her situation. So the treatment may not have helped her. She had only been with us for 3 months and was not in great shape from day one. At that point we didn't know a lot about LTCI Can't help but wonder what the outcome would have been had we started it at day 1. At the time tho her blood values were improving a lot and when our vet retested her she was the lightest positive I've ever seen on a snap test...and we thought we were making headway without it.


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On Sat, May 10, 2014 12:38 PM CDT Katherine Kershaw wrote:

>My 12 yr old has been on it for a year with good results. It brought him out of a bad state when he was first diagnosed. Now he gets it once a month. There used to be a great discussion forum on 910pets.com about it but it's disappeared with their new format. 
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>Lance <linimon at fastmail.fm> wrote:
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>>Have not tried it with my FeLV+. Have heard from my vet that another vet in town used it on a sneezing FIV+, and the owner was pleased with the results. Presumably, the sneezing stopped. That’s all I know.
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>>On May 9, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Marsha <martia at lynxe.com> wrote:
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>> Re:  LTCI (Lymphocyte T-Cell Immunomodulator)
>> 
>> I have called 2 vet offices today that the manufacturer's website say are using this drug.  One office used it only once in 2010, for a series of 10 shots on a cat.  The person who answered the phone thought the cat might still be alive, but wasn't really sure.  The other office said they had tried it a few years ago, but had none on hand, didn't sound like they planned on it unless someone specifically requested it.  I tried the Pearl website (a spinoff of JustAnswer), and for $28, got a very generic "I haven't had much success with it, but heard that others have", from a veterinarian on there.
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>> Anybody else using it, or know of anyone having success with it?  Or the opposite?
>> 
>> Marsha
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