[Felvtalk] Grieving, and need to understand about felv

[Amani Oakley]

Perhaps but that wasn't my experience, and if you go on line, you find others who find it extremely helpful for chronic kidney disease cases, just like you mentioned. But Marsha, if the concern is that the results were "lackluster", then what could possibly be the explanation for the pure REFUSAL to prescribe it? Obviously, it that was all there was to it, the vet could just say, "Well, I don't think you're going to get too far with this stuff, but it's up to you if you want to give it a try". Given that the option people often get with FeLV cats is zilch, then why not mention that it is a possibility, though not a great one. When I am sitting, balling my eyes out and the vet is telling me, "so sorry, there is nothing at all that can help" and "put him down for his own sake - you wouldn't want him to suffer", then I certainly expect that I should have been told about Winstrol. It's not like we have a lot of options with FeLV. None of the options are particularly great or can be relied on regularly, and most of the options are way way more expensive than the Winstrol.

Moreover, I find it hard to believe they got lackluster results. I have used this stuff now in more hard luck situations than you would believe, and I would say that in about 80% of the circumstances, I have had a good to an excellent result. Sometimes, I get no result.

I find it hard to believe that I just happened to be lucky.

Amani

From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Marsha
Sent: November-27-15 3:04 PM
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Grieving, and need to understand about felv

Maybe part of it is because of lackluster results for the conditions they *were* using it for.  I found 2 "old school" vets in my area that had used it a couple of decades ago, then kind of forgot it existed after it got harder to find.  One said she forgot about it because it didn't make that big of an impression on her.  She had used it for anemia in CKD cats, I think.

Marsha

On 11/27/2015 1:21 PM, Amani Oakley wrote:

I feel for your loss. The blame doesn't lie with you but again, my frustration is that the vets should be at least offering Winstrol in a situation where there is profound anemia since it did wonders to stimulate red cell production with Zander, and I have seen it with other cats now. I remain unable to comprehend why the vet community would rather not tell us about this option, and allow us to have to accept death or euthanasia instead.

Amani


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