I hope Lucy continues to improve Michelle.
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Thanks, Nina. I can't believe you are responding at all, to be honest, with all you are going through.Lucy's bowels are firm and she just started having a normal-ish appetite again, but only after I put her up to 12.5 mg/day of pred. I think I really need to try to leave her on this for at least a week and to taper much more slowly. When I first tried to taper her, she went from 12.5 down to 3.75 over the course of a month and a half, but relapsed when I went down to 2.5. After that, I could not seem to get her below 10 mg. She is very perky, though. I called and made an appointment, again, for the place far away to see the specialist. But now that she seems to be stabilizing (fingers crossed) and someone offered to send me prednisolone, I think I might cancel it again if she is still ok by Friday and see if a slower taper, and switching to prednisolone, helps. What do you think?I did see her eat some bread crumbs on the patio last week, and yesterday morning found that I had left the lid of an empty margerine container on the counter-- it was greasy but had no visible margerine on it when I found it, but if there had been any I am sure she probably licked it. So it is really hard to say if her relapses happen just from needing more pred and generally having worse IBD, or from her eating things that I am not aware of at the time.Thanks again for asking,Michelle
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To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 3:49 PM
Subject: Michelle - How is Lucy today?
Michelle,
I've seen your posts about switching Lucy from prednisone to prednisolone today, but you haven't said how she's doing. Is she eating? Has her stool firmed up at all? Any other symptoms? With all that's going on at my house I didn't get to Gypsy's mush for two days. I had been feeding her plain cooked turkey and knew we were going to have a problem because of it. She's finally back on her mush, so I hope it will be resolved soon, but meanwhile she's got liquid diarrhea again and has lost her appetite.
The thought "No good deed goes unpunished" just went through my mind. I've got to figure out a way to help the wayward ones and still keep my sanity.
Praying that Lucy is feeling better,
Nina
