Hi Alice, Might be a long shot, but if no one sees anything in the posted test results, you might consider testing for Bartonella. Several of my guys have tested positive. Symptoms vary but two had a cough, one had eye discharge, one was sneezing. Treatment is a 20 day round of azithromycin, which can be compounded with fish flavoring to make it easier to administer. I mix it in their wet food.
Terry ---- Alice Flowers <aliceflow...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: ============= We took Murphy in on 04/25 because he developed a sneeze-first we thought allergies because we had been opening the doors and the screens were letting in pollens-everything is blooming. They gave us Cyproheptadine-1/2 tab 2x a day, but we switched to 1/4 tab 3x a day. The 1/2 had him sleeping all the time...but no sneezing-as soon as he woke up, the sneezing began again. We called the Dr and picked up some Penn G and I gave him 5/8 cc injection-the sneezing was gone by the 2nd day. I just gave him the 2nd shot today. We had both Murphy and Rosie FeLV tested again-both still positive...sigh, we had such high hopes. Murphy's RBC is 1/2 what it was in Jan. He seems ok, just not 100%-he has lost a little weight. I stopped giving interferon a few months ago to try and save a little-bad idea-I have him back on 2x a day now. They have both been on the LTCI since September and doing great, but I have them out to 10 weeks now since they were doing so well. I took it for granted. I'm not sure what the blood test results mean-he had been staying in the same ranges until this last test, maybe his being sick with the sneezing (no cough, or snotty nose-just bouts of sneezing) has affected the tests. Also this last week, he has developed a "weepy" eye. That worries me the most-all 4 of the brothers that died before they were a year old had one weepy looking eye. Here are the results, maybe someone will have an idea. Sorry to throw this out there-but I know there are some medical savvy people on this site. Any help is so greatly appreciated. 04/2501/0811/21/09REFERENCE WBC7.86.2 6.64.2-15.6 RBC4.8510.9510.226.0-10.0 HGB11.114.412.89.5-15 HCT32.339.53629-45 MCV67363541-58 MCH22.913.112.511.0-17.5 MCHC34.436.535.629-36 Neutrophil Seg85623435-75 Lymphocytes7295520-55 Monocytes5451-4 Eosinophil3662-12 Basophil0000-1 Auto Platelet63887?343170-600 Absol. Neutophil Seg6630384422442500-12500 Absol. Lymphocyte546179836301500-7000 Absol. Monocyte3902483300-850 Absol. Eosinophil2343723960-1500 Absol. Basophil0000-100 _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
