<p dir="ltr">Mo was already on Prednisone so I've just continued that daily while adding on the Doxy and now the generic Winstrol. My vet gave me an rx for 60 days of the Winstrol. I hope to run bloodwork again after 30 days. I don't want to check too soon and unfortunately I think we will find out all too soon if it's not helping. She did mention his reticulocyte count was nonexistent last week.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm currently only able to get him to eat Temptations treats and I put the high calorie gel on his feet when he hasn't eaten at least 100 calories a day. I was syringe feeding him for awhile but I don't want to do that unless he won't eat at all.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm trying as hard as I can to turn this around for him. I work in healthcare and am very science minded so the theory behind all of this makes sense. I just hope he's got enough gas left in the tank for his body to recover. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Sheri</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 5, 2017, 1:56 PM Amani Oakley <<a href="mailto:aoakley@oakleylegal.com">aoakley@oakleylegal.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Hi Sheri<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">As you have seen and referenced, some people have had good results with the Winstrol/Doxy combination, while others have not. In my opinion, it is at least worth
a shot given the very limited alternatives out there. Good that you have a baseline reading on the blood results – this will allow you to know if he is moving the right direction on the meds.
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">10 is a haematocrit value, not the RBCs. 10 is low but my cat (Zander) had dropped down to 5, and I was able to pull him out of the abyss – first with a blood
transfusion and then with the Winstrol. When I started the Winstrol, it was after his 2<sup class="gmail_msg">nd</sup> blood transfusion, which wasn’t doing more than giving a temporary fix. He had gone up to a 16 haematocrit after the 2<sup class="gmail_msg">nd</sup> transfusion, but they had
had to stop midway through the second bag of blood because he had had a transfusion reaction and they told me that that was it for being able to give him any more transfusions. I had watched for two months as his haematocrit dropped steadily down from 16 to
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">I started him on the Winstrol (he was already on Doxy and Prednisone) and within a few days, I noticed a pinkening of his ears and gums, and his weekly blood
work showed his haematocrit had gone up to 12. From there, it rose steadily in ones and twos until it finally got back into the normal reference range, as did his platelets and white cells, but it took almost 10 months of treatment and every time I tried to
wean him off the Winstrol, his haematocrit and red cells would fall again.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">I suggest you try the meds, (consider adding prednisone or prednisolone as well), and keep a close eye on his haematology results. Ask for them to run a reticulocyte
count with the haematology panel. This should tell you if he is producing new red cells or not. Again, with Zander, his reticulocyte count was basically zero when I started the Winstrol, but it went up almost immediately.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">I also found the need to give Zander 1/5 tablet of apometoclompromide to get the food to go down. I understand that the virus will often affect the GI tract,
including thickening of the intestinal walls, causing food and stool moves very slowly through the GI tract, thus adding to the cat’s malaise, and reduced appetite. Also, this slow down allows more problems to develop in the intestinal walls (with the stool
sitting in one spot for a long time). The apometoclopromide increases peristaltic action in the GI tract, pushing food down faster. I found this really helped Zander, since he was also vomiting all the time (including after I would spend an hour getting him
to eat or syringe feeding him baby food). The apometoclopromide is given a little bit before feeding, and it worked like a charm. Once I started giving it to him, the vomiting stopped and stool started coming out of him normally.
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Sadly, however, the meds haven’t worked for everyone. It could be how advanced the condition is before the meds are started, and there is also information online
that they have identified a number of strains of the FeLV virus. I suspect that this might also account for the fact that some of us see a great improvement in our cats, while others don’t. I’m crossing my fingers for you and I am very happy that you have
a supportive vet. That is often the first big problem, so thankfully, this isn’t an issue you must also deal with.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p>
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<b class="gmail_msg">Subject:</b> [Felvtalk] New FELV mom<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p></div></div><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple" class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_7269716981171289367WordSection1 gmail_msg">
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Hi everyone! I just joined your board today but I have been reading some of your posts since last week. <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">About 2 months ago we adopted our first FELV cat Violet. 2 weeks later we also adopted her brother Mo. They are amazing, sweet, affectionate cats and we love them so much!<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Vi is eating every thing in sight, healthy, happy and very playful but poor Mo has really struggled. He lost an eye at 4 months old and is only 5.5lbs. He had a respiratory infection and teeth pulled before he came home with us. The rescue
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Fast forward 6 weeks and he's been back to their vet twice for tooth roots and non healing gums and to ours when he was obviously in terrible pain while eating. She found sores on his palate and ran bloodwork to check for anemia. I got
the bad news last Thurs that he is severely anemic and there is nothing we can do beyond what we were doing (clavamox, prednisone, buprenorphine) and I was devastated... until I finally came across your archives in an exhaustive search on Friday.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">First, thank you all for sharing, we would have no hope for sweet Mo if it weren't for you. I talked to his vet Sat who hadn't heard of using Winstrol. She agreed to at least switch him to Doxy and research it. I was shocked Yesterday to
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Luckily, she was having the Doxy compound into a liquid for me and after calling all over, that pharmacy was able to order the Stanozolol. I was able to add the steroid to our Doxy/Pred that we were already doing. <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">I just wanted to ask everyone what their experience has been with this. I know some saw great results, others, not so much. Today Mo was very lethargic and wouldn't eat in the AM but when I came home at lunch he ate quite a bit (for him).<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">His number was 10 last week (I'm not sure if that's just rbc's or not) so I hope I was able to get him the meds in time.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Thank you again for the info, it's the only thing that has given me hope to save Mo!<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p>
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