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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Molly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I tried Immunoregulin for a long time with my FeLV little boy, but it was completely ineffective. You need to be doing regular (weekly or every other week) blood
testing, to monitor whether the Immunoregulin is helping or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If not, then don’t run through the full 21 weeks. There would be no point and you will waste valuable time while she worsens.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I had good luck using a combination of Doxycycline (1/2 100 mg twice a day) plus Winstrol (1 mg x2 day) plus prednisone/prednisolone (1/2 5 mg tablet x2 a day).
Even on this protocol, I recommend close weekly or bi-weekly monitoring so you can see if you start getting a rise in the red cell indices, etc. Don’t let your vet talk you out of one or another of these medications. You can’t substitute another antibiotic
for the Doxycycline, for example. Doxycycline has anti-RNA properties (which allows it to interfere with the replication of viruses when other antibiotics don’t do this.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Some people in this group have also reported excellent results with “Zander’s Protocol” while others have not. I am hypothesizing that this may be due to the
fact that it appears there may be as many as five different strains of the virus, so perhaps the different strains respond or don’t respond to certain things. The other thing that may affect outcome is timing. The virus shuts down the bone marrow by killing
or taking over the cells in the bone marrow. At some point, there will be little in the bone marrow to turn back on (which it appears the Winstrol can do in some instances).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Amani<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">P.S. – For those of you keeping score, I have corrected my previous description of Zander’s Protocol because I found an old pill bottle and realized I had been
giving him ½ a 100 mg Doxy tablet twice a day, not a ¼ tablet as I had previously reported. Sorry for any confusion.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Felvtalk [mailto:felvtalk-bounces@felineleukemia.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Molly Mou<br>
<b>Sent:</b> February-24-17 9:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> felvtalk@felineleukemia.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Felvtalk] FeLv Positive cat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I am new to the list. Three weeks ago my 5-year old Mia kitty was diagnosed with FeLv. The ELISA test showed slightly + for FeLv. I took her to the vet’s initially because her lymph nodes
were raging – all of them premandibular, prescapular, inguinal all the way to the popliteals were enlarged.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">A needle aspirate of the lymph nodes result was hyperplasia, no lymphosarcoma. White blood cell count was normal, but she was anemic, but not to the point of needing a transfusion.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I was devastated and stunned at this diagnosis because she (the whole litter) was tested as kittens for FIV and FeLv and were negative. My vet said the disease can stay in the bone marrow.
I have her brother who is asymptomatic – confusing. I haven’t had him tested yet for FeLv yet.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">My vet recommended treatment with Immunoregulin. The protocol per Plumb’s is an IV injection twice weekly for two weeks, then 1 injection once weekly for 21 weeks. She is now in her 4</span><sup id="yui_3_16_0_1_1487990418504_3620"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">th</span></sup><span style="color:black">
week of treatment. </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">For the first two weeks, her lymph nodes decreased and became softer. But after the 2</span><sup id="yui_3_16_0_1_1487990418504_3625"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">nd</span></sup><span style="color:black">
week her lymph nodes are raging again despite the treatments. She is eating well, but not very active.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Has anyone had experience with this treatment or any other treatment(s) or advice to help my little girl?</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Thanks in advance,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Pat Peterson</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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