[Felvtalk] FW: Greetings & Bogey's Doc Visit

[Sherri Godschalk]

Hi Amani. Thanks for writing. Bogey actually was taking 2mg of the
Stanazolol once a day. (one capsule) Is that what your Zander was taking?
Doc said I could try every other day, or try 1mg twice a day if she starts
to become ill again. I think it is going to be a real balancing act here. In
that 22 days since she was hospitalized, she only had 7 dozes of Stanazolol
and 8 of Doxy. I am going to try to space them out some on a daily basis.
Not give her any medication within 3 hours of taking another. Did you give
your baby meds all in one sitting (both the steroids)? She is to be on the
Doxy for 10 days and recheck around that time. I am watching her food intake
more carefully. If she starts to slow down eating like she did when her
liver problems started last month, maybe I can catch it before it is a
crisis and give her a break from them briefly.

I wouldn’t have guessed that her numbers were so bad. I was actually taken
aback when he showed them to me. She is eating so well. Has gained almost a
pound in the last month. Active.  I thought she was doing a lot better than
she was as far as test results go. I was glad to see her platelets were not
bottomed out like they were in the past.

Amani, did you ever get to the point with Zander that he wasn’t on constant
medicine? Was he able to sustain pretty good numbers for any period of time
without the medication?

I had to look up the word “icteric” that she had written on the results.
Bogey’s  stool and urine have no issues at this moment as far as color. Nor
does her skin. That surprised me too. In all honesty, after I left there I
thought “did they get my results mixed up with someone else's?”

Thanks,
Sherri

From:  Felvtalk <felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org> on behalf of Amani
Oakley <aoakley at oakleylegal.com>
Reply-To:  <felvtalk at felineleukemia.org>
Date:  Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 7:27 PM
To:  "felvtalk at felineleukemia.org" <felvtalk at felineleukemia.org>
Subject:  [Felvtalk] FW: Greetings & Bogey's Doc Visit

Hi Sherri
 
As you’ve said, the good news is that the liver enzymes are dropping down.
The bad news is the anemia is back. I think if it were me, I would probably
go back to the 1mg a day dose of Stanazolol, along with the ¼ tablet of doxy
twice a day and the 5 mg of Prednisolone. I agree you could try halving the
prednisolone and giving ½ tablet, twice a day, but I am not sure that is
very significant.
 
My other concern is that the lymphocytes have jumped up quite a bit as well,
which is not a good thing since that is usually the result of the FeLV virus
load. I also see a significant drop in the platelets. With my cat, I found
that each time I took him off the Stanazolol, I would get a nose-dive of the
red cells/haematocrit/hemoglobin as is apparent in Bogey’s most recent blood
results. That is why I ended up deciding to ignore the high liver enzymes.
However, I did not have a situation as you described, with Bogey feeling
very unwell with the high liver enzymes. Zander really didn’t exhibit much
in the way of changes when his liver enzymes increased, but I sure saw a
difference when he wasn’t on the Winstrol, so I opted to keep him on the
Winstrol and ignore the liver enzymes. Obviously for you, you will have to
see how Bogey does both on and off the medication and play it by ear.
 
(By the way, I don’t think the tech was right about the icteric blood. The
total bilirubin was only 1.4 so I don’t see how it is possible for the serum
to be icteric.) 
 
Amani

 
 
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AGAIN, the message bounced.)
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