[Felvtalk] Stanozolol (Winstrol(R))

Tue Oct 20 19:12:41 CDT 2015

Good news; his temperature is down to a "high normal", bad news; he has an
anemia murmur. The vet was not hearing me about Winstrol and he seemed in a
bad mood. I'm hanging on to the decreased fever as a sign of good things.
We will re-do blood work tomorrow and re-asses in the morning.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Lance <linimon at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> My FeLV+ girl Ember got five-on five-off interferon. I can’t remember if
> it was 1ml or .5ml, but it wasn’t a large dose.
>
> I seem to remember a vet at a specialized clinic telling me that we didn’t
> have to stagger it, but my “country vet” had prescribed it that way, and we
> stuck to it.
>
> AZT can cause serious blood abnormalities in cats. I don’t think it’s
> often used in treating FeLV because of that.
>
> Lance
>
> On Oct 20, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Maya D'Alessio <mdelow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You've been plenty helpful, thank you. What I need to figure out how to
> do, is accept the situation and be less emotional about it, no matter which
> way it goes, until the time comes. Right now I'm just so emotional, I keep
> flip-flopping between optimistic and hopeless.
>
> Do you know with the interferon, what dose they are on? When you first
> started did you start immediately with the one week on, one week off, or
> was there a more intense initial period?
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Margo <toomanykitties2 at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>    I remember researching AZT an deciding against it, but I don't recall
>> why.  My two boys have been on interferon for years (low dose one week on,
>> one week off) and I've never seen any adverse effects, but when they're
>> sick, they seem to perk up during the "on" weeks. The anti-nausea was
>> likely Cerenia, which is being recognized for it's anti-inflammatory
>> properties, as well.
>>
>> He's improving. No need for any major decisions. That's really not a lot
>> of drugs, all things considered :) It was two weeks until Gribs was eating
>> normally, and seemed as if he might live. There really is no formula for
>> mosr people. I always read "you'll know", but I'm not sure that's true.
>> Sorry I can't be more help with that.
>>
>> Margo
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maya D'Alessio
>> Sent: Oct 20, 2015 1:56 PM
>> To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
>> Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Stanozolol (Winstrol(R))
>>
>> Oh wow, yes I am in Waterloo. Can you send me your vet's information and
>> I will pass it along to my vet immediately.
>>
>> He is mentioning AZT and interferon, but Merlot has a persistent fever
>> and won't eat, I am assuming his body is not up to those drugs yet. He's
>> currently on doxy, prednisolone and mirtazipine (appetite stimulant), and
>> they gave him an antinauseant shot last night (cevinia I think).
>>
>> Question to the larger group; my cat is uncomfortable (although better
>> than yesterday), I have to force feed him and he's on a ton of drugs. How
>> long is this feasible? How long should I let it go if we don't see
>> improvement? How do you make that call. With my last cat, she deteriorated
>> so rapidly and it was so dire that it was a pretty straight forward call.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Amani Oakley <aoakley at oakleylegal.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Maya,
>>>
>>> Seriously, I have to wonder about some vets. What is he offering you
>>> that will help your cat??
>>>
>>> Anyhow, all I can say is I am happy I have a supportive vet. I will send
>>> you some links to stuff about Winstrol, but it is hard to find since the
>>> mind-set you have encountered already, is all too common, even when our
>>> cats are dying and there are few realistic alternatives.
>>>
>>> Most of the links I will send to you will not speak to the use of
>>> Winstrol specifically for FeLV, but speak to things like building up
>>> strength and improving appetite.
>>>
>>> Here is the first - very generic.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.petplace.com/article/drug-library/library/prescription/stanozolol-winstrol
>>>
>>> Amani
>>>
>>> P.S. - I also noticed you are not far from me. My vet is in Etobicoke,
>>> in the outskirts of Toronto. Perhaps your vet should call my vet?
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> University of Waterloo
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