[Felvtalk] Little Girl Coco

[Amani Oakley]

I would go ahead with the Winstrol. The diarrhea shouldn’t interfere with it and it won’t worsen the diarrhea. My experience is that when they start to pick up, eat better, keep the weight on, etc., that the diarrhea gets better on its own. In any event, the diarrhea isn’t so concerning when everything else is okay.

Amani

From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Kelley S
Sent: September-29-15 7:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Little Girl Coco

I spoke to him about the Winstrol and he agreed it would be a good idea.  We did not go further than that.  I have a diarrhea problem we are trying to deal with and I think a specialist may end up getting involved. It is nothing that shows up in a regular vet office type fecal and antibiotics and steroids have not helped it.  Neither have fortiflora, yogurt, pumpkin, some volcanic ash stuff recommended by my old vet, crying, or praying.   Not all the cats have it but those that do it is intractable.  Their senior bloodwork shows mostly the same thing, all the major stuff normal, mildly elevated white blood cells.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Amani Oakley <aoakley at oakleylegal.com<mailto:aoakley at oakleylegal.com>> wrote:
I agree Kelley. Do what you think is best. Unfortunately, only you get to live with the consequences of your decision. I learned that the hard way and always keep that in mind when deciding what to do. When I close my eyes at night, I don't want to be tortured but what I should have done but failed to do.

However, what you have described with Coco (underweight and anemic) are both things that the Winstrol is excellent at helping with. I don't know if you spoke with your vet about that. That may be something you want to try with her. If you do, I hope you have as good a result as I had.

In the meantime, take a while to cope with Merlin's loss and don't make any significant changes unless you are comfortable with them right now. Perhaps when you are a little less stressed, things may look different to you, but for now, you have a lot to cope with.

Amani

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Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Little Girl Coco
By the way, various vets have told me regarding mixing vaccinated negatives and positives everything from "FELV is so contagious that if a positive cat licks a blade of grass and your negative cat comes along and licks the same blade of grass they will be infected" to "it's no big deal."  So at this point I have to wonder how much good "a vet told me" is.

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> On Sep 29, 2015, at 4:40 PM, <dlgegg at windstream.net<mailto:dlgegg at windstream.net>> <dlgegg at windstream.net<mailto:dlgegg at windstream.net>> wrote:
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> Kelly, be brave.  My vet told me that as long as the others are vaccinated, you are safe.  The idea is to reduce stress for them, keeping her seperae adds a lot of stress.  My positives and negative have been eating from he same bowls, drinking from the same fountains, sleeping on my bed, chair, etc now for over 4 years.  No one has gotten sick.  Just watch them, make sure to act at the first sign of anything wrong you go to the vet.  Annie is positive and her onlyh problem is she is having a problem adjusting to not being the only one in the house, getting all the attention.  I did start giving the lowest possible dose of medication to relax her and now, she allows others to sleep on my lap with her.
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