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We had more lab work done and it came back possitive on the hyperthyroidism.
Willie is on the meds. I'm having a really hard time posting to this newsgroup with my news rover so I'll keep it short. Jean |
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wrote in message ... We had more lab work done and it came back possitive on the hyperthyroidism. Willie is on the meds. I'm having a really hard time posting to this newsgroup with my news rover so I'll keep it short. Jean Jean! I just took my hyperthyroid cat to the vet this morning, and four years after starting on the Tapazole (5 mgs twice a day) her levels are still perfect. About 2.8. And they started out being 10.8. Every morning when I feed her canned food, I let her start on it then lift her little head and toss her pill to the middle of the back of her throat, so she can't work it around and out with her tongue. She wants to get back to her food so badly, she cooperates and swallows. Then I do the same thing at night. She is twelve years old, and from the first month she has been on Tapazole, her levels have been normal, in the 2.0s. She is now twelve and is a much happier, friskier cat. Willie is lucky you caught and treated it! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Glad Willie is being treated. You will, most likely, need to take him
in for a blood test periodically to see how his thyroid level is being affected. Keep plugging away! wrote: We had more lab work done and it came back possitive on the hyperthyroidism. Willie is on the meds. I'm having a really hard time posting to this newsgroup with my news rover so I'll keep it short. Jean |
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"Buddy's Mom" wrote in message ups.com... Glad Willie is being treated. You will, most likely, need to take him in for a blood test periodically to see how his thyroid level is being affected. Keep plugging away! Every six months is what my vet requires. I just changed vets and they have the same policy. Her levels have stayed the same over the years, so we are very lucky. |
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Your cats have no side effects on the Tapazole? My cat couldn't take it.
He had to be on a 2nd med for the side effects and then he was like a zombie. |
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my cat was 18 when diagnosed. What sort of side effects did your cat
have? Maybe they were part of the hyperthyroidism that wasn't being treated? ChristyLynn wrote: Your cats have no side effects on the Tapazole? My cat couldn't take it. He had to be on a 2nd med for the side effects and then he was like a zombie. |
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When on the meds Toby developed a habit of biting himself, pulling his hair
out. He would be walking across a room and all of a sudden sit down and start viciously licking and biting himself like he was being attacked by invisible bugs. The vet then put him on another med for the side effects, though I don't remember what, but it was probable something like valium or an anti-anxiety med. He then was a zombie and just slept all the time. Then we opted for the radiation treatment and he was wonderful for 8 more years of his life. |
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Buddy's Mom wrote: my cat was 18 when diagnosed. What sort of side effects did your cat have? Maybe they were part of the hyperthyroidism that wasn't being treated? Tapazole is also known for causing vomiting, and diarrhea. It isn't because of the taste, as Phil mentioned, but a direct side effect of the medication. It apparently happens often enough that the vets forewarn of it, which is important because one needs to sort out vomiting as a side effect of the med, vs. vomiting as a symptom of hyperthyroidism. That's partly why following levels is so important. Luthien is 14 years old, and just got diagnosed this summer. Her initial T4 levels were 19.6, apparently the highest her vet has ever seen. Her little heart was banging away at 240 bpm, poor thing. She started on 5mg daily (half-tab twice a day), and that got her T4 down to 4.63 which is just above normal for this lab. And her heart rate is down to 120 bpm, at home when she is calm. But her Free T4 was still greater than 100 (normal is 10-50) so vet has asked us to increase the dose by fifty percent. I was a bit skeptical, since her heart rate was back to normal, but I followed directions. We'll see her levels again, but fortunately she is having no side effects on meds at 7.5mg per day. For now, the criteria for me is to follow her heart rate, which is a quite sensitive indicator for thyroid levels. If you can get kitty to sit still long enough to measure it. Medicine time is quite a show in this house. I felt bad popping pills down Luthien twice a day, knowing it would be for life, even though she is a great pill taker. But it was ruining the fun of her treat time, knowing she had to take the meds, so now I crunch it up in her food, because she always finishes the whole plate, so I know she gets all the meds, and the food hides the taste quite well, and the kitten gets a plate of treats at the same time so as not to get jealous, and they never horn in on each other's food and now everybody's happy. --tension |
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"ChristyLynn" wrote in message ... Your cats have no side effects on the Tapazole? My cat couldn't take it. He had to be on a 2nd med for the side effects and then he was like a zombie. Sounds like the dosage was not right. Although, hyperT cats are "hypervigilant," twitchy and jumpy from their condition, so correcting it ought to make them slow down a bit. Boo has been a new cat, happy as she can be, much more relaxed but very active, too. She has no side effects. She used to vomit a lot more before she was medicated, now not so much. |
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wrote in message ... We had more lab work done and it came back possitive on the hyperthyroidism. Willie is on the meds. I'm having a really hard time posting to this newsgroup with my news rover so I'll keep it short. Jean How old is he, Jean? Phil |
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