Hello ratties lovers,
For the past 10 days, I've had one of my girls, Pepper, who's 18 months old, beeing really sick.
She's just been diagnosed with pituitary tumor.
Thanks to the english ratty community (both US and UK), I've learned about some treatments to help pain relief and possibly shrink the size of the tumor, so the neurological effects of the tumor will revert back to "sort of normal", and give my girl a better quality of life for the time the meds would work and until it's time to put her to sleep :-/
My vet decided to inject her 1 unit of Dexamethanose, saying it would work for 5 days in her system.
Starting today, I have to give her 1 drop of Cabergoline (0,05mg/ml).
That's where my vet and I needs some piece of advice to start adjusting the correct dose.
First visit to the vet, was on Tuesday, 15th, Friday I came back with her cause some pus (not sure it's called like that in english), was coming out of her vagina.
She diagnosed an uterine infection and according to the state of Pepper at that time, she needed surgery so both ovaries and uterus would be removed. Vet said chances she wakes up from surgery are very thin, but she did wake up
Since then, been to the vet at least twice a week.
We tried Metacam to help relieve the pain Pepper might be feeling as we still couldn't find what was going wrong with her, it didn't work (well I didn't see any improvment), and then realised that in case of hemorrhage it could kill her. She had it for the past 3 days (i didn't give her any today as I wanted the vet to give her some Dex)
On Wednesday, we started candilate, thinking she took the risk already if she had any bleeding inside with Metacam.
3 days, no effects (nor good or bad)
As of today, we're stopping Metacam and Candilate, and try the above meds.
Here's all the docs and infos I read so far:
http://www.jorats.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=22656
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=2288
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21879967
http://ratguide.com/meds/central_nervou ... goline.php
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=13851
http://www.goosemoose.com/rfc/index.php?topic=4095109.0
http://ratguide.com/health/neoplasia/pi ... _tumor.php
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=24452&hilit=bromo
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=28917&hilit=bromo
http://www.pfizer.ca/fr/our_products/pr ... ograph/159
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=29818
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=30054
If you have more links to bring to my attention, or advice, I'll welcome them arms wide open
Thank you for your help
For the past 10 days, I've had one of my girls, Pepper, who's 18 months old, beeing really sick.
She's just been diagnosed with pituitary tumor.
Thanks to the english ratty community (both US and UK), I've learned about some treatments to help pain relief and possibly shrink the size of the tumor, so the neurological effects of the tumor will revert back to "sort of normal", and give my girl a better quality of life for the time the meds would work and until it's time to put her to sleep :-/
My vet decided to inject her 1 unit of Dexamethanose, saying it would work for 5 days in her system.
Starting today, I have to give her 1 drop of Cabergoline (0,05mg/ml).
That's where my vet and I needs some piece of advice to start adjusting the correct dose.
First visit to the vet, was on Tuesday, 15th, Friday I came back with her cause some pus (not sure it's called like that in english), was coming out of her vagina.
She diagnosed an uterine infection and according to the state of Pepper at that time, she needed surgery so both ovaries and uterus would be removed. Vet said chances she wakes up from surgery are very thin, but she did wake up
Since then, been to the vet at least twice a week.
We tried Metacam to help relieve the pain Pepper might be feeling as we still couldn't find what was going wrong with her, it didn't work (well I didn't see any improvment), and then realised that in case of hemorrhage it could kill her. She had it for the past 3 days (i didn't give her any today as I wanted the vet to give her some Dex)
On Wednesday, we started candilate, thinking she took the risk already if she had any bleeding inside with Metacam.
3 days, no effects (nor good or bad)
As of today, we're stopping Metacam and Candilate, and try the above meds.
Here's all the docs and infos I read so far:
http://www.jorats.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=22656
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=2288
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21879967
http://ratguide.com/meds/central_nervou ... goline.php
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=13851
http://www.goosemoose.com/rfc/index.php?topic=4095109.0
http://ratguide.com/health/neoplasia/pi ... _tumor.php
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=24452&hilit=bromo
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=28917&hilit=bromo
http://www.pfizer.ca/fr/our_products/pr ... ograph/159
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=29818
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=30054
If you have more links to bring to my attention, or advice, I'll welcome them arms wide open
Thank you for your help