[Felvtalk] Michael's last hope

[Amani Oakley]

I hate to sound like a broken record, but my suggestion would be to put him on 1 mg of Stanazolol (Winstrol) 2x a day, along with ¼ tablet of 100 mg Doxycycline 2x a day (or less if you get the Doxy in a liquid form which can be more easily calibrated to weight) plus ½ a tablet of 5 mg prednisolone 2x a day, plus apo-metoclopromine 2x a day if needed (if he is having trouble eating or keeping the food down).

The blood transfusion you gave him will hold him for a while, though you haven’t indicated what his red cells, haematocrit, haemoglobin, etc., levels are. The transfusion will allow for proper oxygenation, etc., while you hopefully work to up the numbers of red cells being produced by his bone marrow (something I have had excellent success with, by using the Winstrol).

If you haven’t already followed the discussion about Winstrol, I will forewarn you that it can be very difficult to convince some vets to prescribe it. They will quote the risk of liver damage which is overhyped, but in any event, rather irrelevant when faced with a critical situation like the one your little boy faces now. Vets may also be reluctant to prescribe it because it is associated with doping scandals in professional sports, but unless your cat is planning to run in the Olympics or play professional baseball, I never could understand this illogical response. Your vet will need to obtain Winstrol from a compounding pharmacy, and my suggestion would be to ask for it (if possible) in fast-dissolve pill form, which I have found very easy to use intact in pilling my cats, and others in this group have reported is easy to dissolve into food if that is preferred.

Amani

From: Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces at felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Terri
Sent: January-10-17 6:52 PM
To: felvtalk at felineleukemia.org
Subject: [Felvtalk] Michael's last hope

Hi everyone.

My little boy Michael is 3 and was diagnosed just over a week ago. I noticed he had lost weight and wasn’t quite himself but nothing major, or so I thought. I got him as a stray kitten, had him tested – he was negative for felv, and vaccinated him every year.

On Fri 30 Dec I took him to the vet, she did blood tests to check what could be wrong with him and told me that when he came up positive she didn’t do any further tests. She said he was anemic and prescribed cortisone every day and vitamin B shots every week for 4 weeks. I asked what his lifespan would be and she told me not very long and that there was nothing else we could do except a blood transfusion at some stage.

After coming home from a new years eve party I found him limping and he would not stop moaning, I gave him an anti inflammatory that he had been given for a previous leg injury hoping it would help until morning when a vet opened. It helped his leg but he started moaning again 2 hours later. I finally found a vet that could help on new years day. I told the vet about his history and what had happened earlier that morning, by this time his leg was fine so the vet gave him a strong pain killer thinking he was moaning in pain and told me to bring him back later if it didn’t help. I took him back where a different vet saw him, he did blood tests and the results were terrible, he also felt that he had some sort of neurological issue so he had to be admitted to hospital. His platelet and red blood cell count was extremely low and he was not responding to treatment, I made the decision for him to have a blood transfusion which he received on 3 Jan Tuesday evening. I fetched him on Wednesday and had him tested again on the Friday, his results were still better but there was no sign of his body regenerating. On the weekend he just seemed to improve so much, is appetite was back and he had interest in playing like his old self again, but Monday’s results did not reflect his behavior. His body was not regenerating and his counts had dropped slightly.

My next step is blood tests and decisions on Friday. I am devastated and don’t know if there is anything else that we can do. If anyone can give any advice or suggestions I would really appreciate it. At the moment he is on Baytril and a nutritional tonic.

Kind regards,
Terri Knight

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