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(Mpls., Mn)
06/02/2016
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(Mpls., Mn)
03/16/2016
Hello Jaya,
Fellow Frenchie lover here! I am guessing the reason they did not ask you about administering the cortisone shot was because there was no time - meaning Bruno may have been experiencing anaphalactic shock [sudden, extreme allergic reaction] and the cortisone was to gain control over the reaction to avoid suffocation and keep him alive.
A couple thoughts for you.
1 - never give Bruno another vaccine again, ever. You may wish to discuss what happened with your vet, and ask they put it in his file and make it an official record that he had this life threatening reaction so he can be exempt from having to have those vaccines that are required by law.
2 - You can dose homeopathic Thuja Occidentalis to help with the adverse reaction to the vaccine; even though it appears he is over the bad part, the reaction is a chain of events and what often happens after a vaccine reaction is a systemic yeast infection. So first attempt to negate the allergic reaction with Thuja.
3 - Be on the look out for yeast and act NOW. Yeast may manifest as gunky ears or itchy skin - don't wait for a problem, just know you need to head it off before it arrives. Switch to a grain free diet if you do not already feed one, and monitor all treats so ensure they are not filled with grains, sugars and starches and dyes and colorants.
4 - Consider Ted's Borax protocol for dogs, and also alkalizing with baking soda in the water; I alternate between one or the other but some folks have done both at the same time.
5 - Consider Zymox Hcl for ear infections. Get it online. I like to have this around for when the rare yeasty ear occurs in my pack of Frenchies. Great stuff, works great.
Please report back!
(Eastern Nc)
06/17/2016
I was just reading your post about your Frenchie and how he had vomited after getting his rabies vaccination and other vaccinations. I understand that your upset that your vet administered the cortisone before telling you of the possible side effects and now your baby has been drinking and urinating excessively, etc....however, I just wanted to reiterate that had your vet not rushed and given him the cortisone shot, your baby could've died due to having an allergic reaction to the vaccinations. So, in hindsight, excessive drinking and urinating, and not being able to hold his urine as long as normal due to the excessive drinking and urinating as side effects from the cortisone, is MUCH better in my opinion, than having lost your baby that day at the vet.
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(Mpls., Mn)
02/12/2016
Hello Ryan,
I am very sorry to hear about the complictions your APBT developed after taking this drug :-(
Remission is possible, but first read up:
http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/sites/default/files/SteroidTherapy.pdf
This is from a particular case in a cat:
"If diabetes mellitus is confirmed in this cat, you might have a chance of "reversing" Timmy's diabetes. To do that, however, you should definitely not administer any additional glucocorticoids. In addition, we should start feeding a low-carbohydrate canned diet (less than 5-10 of daily calories), and began treatment with a long-acting insulin preparation (eg, ProZinc or insulin glargine) given twice daily.
By controlling postprandial hyperglycemia and lowering the cat's circulating blood glucose to close to normal throughout the day, this may help revert the effects of glucose toxicity on the insulin-secreting pancreatic cells and remission of the diabetic state may occur (1, 7). "
Source: http://www.endocrinevet.info/2013/01/steroid-induced-diabetes-in-cats.html
Please discuss with your new vet what worked for Timmy the cat as it may be an option for your girl.
Please, please report back!
(Eastern Nc)
06/17/2016
Hi. I read your post a couple of times to make sure I understood completely before replying...that being said, as per your post, your dog was only on the meds for 12 days, I don't believe that being on the meds with such a small amount of steroid for only 12 days has caused this in your dog. Your baby could've been predisposed to the mentioned diseases from its parents, hereditary/genetics. Normally it takes extended use of a steroid, as in years, to cause these diseases in dogs. That being said, I do really hope you find the answers and your baby recovers and lives a very long healthy life!
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Thanks,
(Cork Ireland)
03/07/2016
(Mpls., Mn)
03/08/2016
Hello Nora,
You might consider dosing your boy with activated charcoal. I would try 1 tsp into some wet food - it is light, fluffy stuff that gets all over and makes mud very quickly; use a tasty tinned food or tuna to help mask the earthy taste. I would do this am and pm for 3 weeks. You might also consider offering doggie pedialyte along with his regular water bowl to help with electrolytes as chances are your boy is peeing like a race horse from this drug.
You might find it helpful to keep a daily journal to document your starting point and then track any changes or improvements.
Please report back!
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Cortisone is horrible. Don't get it for your pet. It kills them.
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(Chino Valley)
07/18/2015
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(Mpls., Mn)
07/07/2015
Hey Eva!
You might try putting your terrier on a prednisone detox regimen. Consider these herbs: Milk thistle, Burdock root, dandelion and Essiac tea. Read the recommended dosage on each bottle and adjust by weigh accordingly - your dog might need 1/2 capsule for a doggie dose vs 1 full capsule for adult human dose; this is something you will have to tailor for your particular dog when compared to the particular strength of the herbal product you have in hand, so I cannot be more exact on the dose to use.
For dosing schedule you might do the Burdock Root first thing in the morning and then again in the evening on an empty stomach. Dose the Dandelion Root twice daily also. Dose the Milk Thistle three times a day, with meals. After the 15 days discontinue the Burdock root and start the Essica tea; dose the Essiac Tea for fifteen days, three times a day - you can continue the dandelion and Milk thistle on the Essiac.
Please report back on how your terrier recovers!
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(Mpls., Mn)
06/10/2015
Hey Twila!
This is a common side effect from the cortisone shot - increased thirst, increased hunger, panting when it doesn't feel hot outside and increased urination due to increased water intake.
You might consider Ted's Mange Remedy followed up with a sprintzer bottle of Ted's Anti-fungal/Anti-staph dip to treat any trouble spots on your dog. Alkalizing the water with baking soda can also help keep the hot spots in check.
(Columbus, Oh)
06/11/2015
(France)
07/07/2015
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in 2002, I took my Great Dane in for a regular check-up and the vet said he heard a heart murmur. He explained dogs can live a long time with them and it was nothing to worry about. So I didn't...
By 2005, we had moved and I had a new vet. By then, the dog was 9 years old (old for a GD), and having trouble with arthritis. Omega 3 fish oil pills helped for a while. Then, the vet said she could give her cortisone shots but explained, if used over a long period of time, they could cause kidney failure. No other side-effects were mentioned. (The heart murmur was never discussed; I assumed she knew of it because she had listened several times). I decided to take the risk to ease the dog's pain, as she would likely not live long enough for kidney failure to kick in.
She got 3 shots over a period of a few months without any abnormal side effects that I recall. Maybe some extra drinking, but she drank a lot of water anyway. Each time, she perked right up and would prance around like a puppy for 3-4 weeks before starting to slow down again.
When it was time for her 4th shot, there was a substitute vet, as mine was on vacation. Everything went fine in the office. But, when we got home, I took her for her walk and she didn't make it far before she had to lay down. Her back legs had completely given out and she never regained her strength. Lethargy set in, she stopped eating and wouldn't move.
Within five days, I had my regular vet come put her down at home. We both chalked it up to the cortisone just wasn't doing it anymore, but I wasn't fully convinced because she dropped so quickly after the shot.
Looking at pictures later, I realized how much weight she had lost in the course of the regiment. I remembered she had not been weighed as was the usual practice before giving her the shot. So, I thought the substitute vet may have given her an overdose for her size. But I never knew for sure.
Now, I think it was the heart issue, and the cortisone exacerbated any congestive heart failure that may have developed from the murmur. I'll see if my thinks that was a possibility.
(Mpls., Mn)
05/18/2015
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(Mpls., Mn)
01/03/2015
(Bristow, Va)
01/05/2015
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She was fine when we got home, though the other cats hissed at her per usual when one of them goes to the vet. She was fine at 10pm when I gave her her nightly treats. I woke up the next morning and she was dead. She WOULD HAVE BEEN two years old in January. Devastated!!! I can only think that the penicillin would have caused a reaction within a couple of hours due to the immune system, so I am inclined to think that cortisone was the issue. When I researched death after penicillin, I got a plethora of articles about the cortisone probably being the culprit.
I am devastated to think she was alone when she died. I was with my other cats when put to sleep, but Lucy was so YOUNG and full of vitality! She was the biggest sweetheart ever!! My heart is broken.
(Mpls., Mn)
12/01/2014
Hey Christineo!
I am very sorry to hear about the death of Lucy :(
I did research also as the death *yound* Lucy over a cortizone shot baffled me. This is what I found out.
"A less common side effect of corticosteroid use is to uncover hidden congestive heart failure (CHF). If heart disease is undetected (occult), especially if a heart murmur is not heard, fluid can rapidly fill up the lungs causing labored breathing and distress after a steroid injection is given. If the patient is promptly seen by a vet on an emergency basis and CHF is diagnosed by a chest x-ray, oxygen therapy and diuretic injections generally cause the fluid to be urinated out and an echocardiogram can be performed to further define the heart condition."
Source: http://felinedocs.com/dr-elyse-kent/steroid-use-in-cats-is-it-dangerous/
Lucy very likely had an undiagnosed cardiac condition - something your vet could not have anticipated. In hindsight the presenting symptoms are cardiac related, but in such a young cat asthma or pneumonia would be any vet's first guess, and the shot - properly indicated for asthma or pneumonia - pushed the cardiac condition over the edge. I suppose you could do an autopsy to confirm, but it won't bring her back.
My heart goes out to you for your sudden loss of Lucy~
{{{{{{{{{{{Christineo}}}}}}}}}}}}
(Minneapolis, Mn)
12/05/2014
Thank you so much, Theresa!! I adopted Lucy and her sister as well as their mother (couldn't separate them) in early 2013. I sent Paws and Claws a letter about Lucy's sudden death today and she did mention cardiomyopathy as a possibility. I couldn't afford a necropsy, though I would think they would do one for learning purposes. Probably not. I have read articles stating that a cat with a murmur of any kind shouldn't be given steroids as CHF is likely. That murmurs should always be investigated first.
She (vet) heard the murmur a few months ago when they got their shots, but Lucy was so mad being there, it was a possibility that it was stress induced. She was quite flippant about the seriousness of it then AND the night I brought her in last week (I asked it her murmur needed treatment. "No."). I never would have guessed any of this would have happened. Surely she ought to know steroid precautions??
I just can't help but feel like we let Lucy down.
(Mpls., Mn)
12/05/2014
Hey Christineo!
I had the best cat *ever* who died of aortic thrombosis; he was the healthiest cat I knew of, who caught most of his meals - bunnies, chipmunks and the like. Waking up one morning to find him paralyzed in the rear was unreal, and even more surreal the diagnosis from my vet whom I love and respect and would follow to the ends of the earth that PTS was the best option. Goliath was just 12 years old -too soon for him to leave me, but his number was simply up: it was time for him to go on to his next mission, his next assignment. His early leaving allowed him to greet my two senior pitbulls Conan and Sonja who left 6 months and 9 months afterward. In hind sight I do not regret his untimely passing, as I know he greeted Conan and Sonja on the rainbow bridge only like a soul mate could.
I ask that you think about Lucy with different eyes; she has a soul path, a mission, and this early and shocking passing was part of her plan.
Look at her legacy; she sure taught that VET a thing or two!! This is huge - as some vet's cannot be told, but must learn in painful and embarrassing ways.
I urge you to write your vet a letter, explaining the situation. Explain that the murmur was a known pre-existing conditiont, that you brought it up prior to the shot, and that death after cortisone shot in cats is directly related to cardiomyopathy. The vet needs to know that you know... and that others that follow may be just as intelligent as you in their research.
I also want you to consider that CHF in cats is not a fun path to mosey down, and in passing early - while unexpected - saved Lucy pain and suffering and saved putting YOU through a draining experience of watching her waste away before your eyes as you wait for the other shoe to drop.
{{{{{{{Christineo}}}}}}}}}
{{{Thank you Lucy for your lesson! }}}
(Minneapolis, Mn)
12/06/2014
Thank you so much for your kind and compassionate words, Theresa! I truly, truly appreciate them.
The idea that her death served a purpose is actually something I just posted on my Facebook page. That maybe, just maybe, her dying was a way of saving us both from the angst of getting the medications in her and possible complications from the actual cause of the murmur. I have to believe in something good in all of this. It's the only thing holding the pieces of my heart together.
In the same post, I did express confusion as to how she did not realize murmurs and cortisone don't "go together". And that I fully intended to address this with the vet's office. Is she a 'new' older vet? What is her background? She is new to the practice this year, but I don't know anything about her. I need to address this with the vet to save potential damage to future pets and their owners. She needs to consider the idea that small murmurs are still murmurs. And until you know 'why', you can't assume they are negligible. I've read in several places that you can't determine the severity of the murmur based on sound. It needs to be investigated. BUT...it does take money.
Again, I SO appreciate your words. I definitely believe in soul purpose and currently submerged in the belief/understanding of it. I will always struggle with the inability to be with her when she passed. But I suppose if I'd found her in distress and couldn't get her treated in time, it would have just been a whole new set of grief (different reasons). I need to just let it go and appreciate what time we did have together. And the love we gave each other.
xo
(Minneapolis, Mn)
12/06/2014
Oh, Theresa. I had sent a message to the agency I adopted the kitties from to let them know. She had actually mentioned cardiomyopathy as a possibility and sent me links for it. I read that in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep and that was the first time I ever felt any peace since she passed. The "who knows" limbo is incredibly miserable. I feel confident that I now know the answer to what happened to Lucy. <3
(Ny)
11/11/2015
Earily- my cats name was Lucy too. I took her to the vet last week for a skin issue. She was given a shot of cortisone. 3 days later she died of congestive heart failure at the vet's office. She had a heart murmur that the vet had asked me about minutes before she gave her the shot. She should have never been given the shot. I called the vet the day before she died and informed her of the symptoms and she said it was probably a reaction to the shot. By the time we took her in the next day it was too late. Malpractice??
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Well, here we are and she needs another shot but I'm weary about her having too many. I started using Tea Tree Oil and it worked great but the odor was way too strong. I accidentally discovered something else that seems to work really well. I bought a (what I would call a stupid spray that I believed was a sales gimic) made by Top Paw, with Lavender, it has lidocaine, allantion, hydrocortisone, glycerin, and wheat germ oil.
I always believed her itching was from anxiety not so much allergies, because I work long hours.
You won't believe what I just discovered this morning, you know how lavender is suppose to be calming, I took the lid off the bottle and let her smell and lick it and pretended to spray her back-end where she bites the most and now she's asleep and snoring.
I will get a bigger bottle and continue to use this method as long as it'll work. I'm so excited!!!!!! I'll try to keep posted with the progress. Please let me know if anyone else has tried lavender to calm down their pet. I wish the best to everyone. When Darcy is miserable, I'm miserable. She's a gift from God. :)
