[Felvtalk] Stanozolol (Winstrol(R))
dlgegg at windstream.net
dlgegg at windstream.net
Tue Oct 27 21:11:02 CDT 2015
Just because it is new, does not make it effective or safe. Look at all the Human drugs that now have lawyers saying "did you take this? I can get you lots of money."
One of the doctors my other worked for would not use a drug until it was on the market for 10 years because it usually takes that long for all the side effects to show up.
---- Marsha <martia at lynxe.com> wrote:
> My vet said that darbepoetin is a newer drug that he felt is safer. But
> I'm not sure how much he has used it. I haven't even started
> researching it. The cyclophosphamide suppresses Peaches' immune system,
> so it may have a protective effect from the immune system. Still
> looking for a source for Winstrol. Two local vets are looking it up for
> me. Neither has used it for 20-25 years. One said she used to use it a
> lot for CRF cats that were anemic and cachexic. She didn't have any
> issues with it (adverse or side effects), but doesn't remember it as
> anything spectacular either. She cautioned that since Peaches is slowly
> improving anyway (appetite - I won't know about blood values until next
> week), that I might mistakenly attribute improvement to Winstrol (if I
> got some for her), when she was going to improve anyway. Peaches'
> primary vet chuckled when I said her oncologist hadn't heard of it -
> "She must be young!" he said. So anybody who's looking for Winstrol or
> a vet experienced with it, check out the local vets that are in their
> late 50's at least.
>
> Marsha
>
> On 10/27/2015 6:54 PM, Maya D'Alessio wrote:
> > I would be careful about using erythropoeitin or darbepoeitin, both
> > have been shown to eventually (but not in every case) cause the cat's
> > own immune system to recognize the drug and destroy it, which would be
> > less of a problem if that was it, but unfortunately it also starts to
> > recognize the cats own natural erythropoeitin and destroy it as well.
> > This ends catastrophically badly, as without erythropoeitin, very
> > little blood cell production is able to happen in the body. It seems
> > to take some time for this reaction to happen, but I was just reading
> > up on it for my guy (Merlot), and from what I read I would be very
> > hesitant to use it. I would try Winstrol or something else first,
> > before I tried the erythropoeitin.
> >
>
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