Moscowsmule
New Member
Hi All,
this is my first post on this forum but been keeping rats for a very long time! We have a girl with PT she’s over two and has also struggled with an RI for quite a long time. She’s still eating and pottering about but was relying on us more and more and herRI wasn’t responding all that well to doxy baytril combo. On Friday we took her to the vet for a dexinjection and came away with prednisone to give her daily - it’s really helped but today seems to be tapering off a bit and I think the dose is too low (looking at the thread about dosage) but just wanted to check before we up it. In our eyes she is now in palliative care - she doesn’t seem in pain or distress at all but by this time we know she won’t be making any miraculous recovery - with everything that’s going on the vet isn’t easy at all and we just want her comfortable at home for now so we would rather her be on a higher dose and be comfortable if you know what I mean?!
so she weight 450 grams and I have 1mg tablets - if I go by the dosage 1mg for 1kg she should be having 0.45 of a 1mg tablet daily am I correct? As the vet put her on 1/4 of 1mg tab or 0.25 mg and I think he has erred on the side of caution with the lowest dose - but by this point (adding in the fact I’m sure we always lose a small amount of meds when using syringe etc) I think a more robust dosing would be better?
thanks in advance everyone
this is my first post on this forum but been keeping rats for a very long time! We have a girl with PT she’s over two and has also struggled with an RI for quite a long time. She’s still eating and pottering about but was relying on us more and more and herRI wasn’t responding all that well to doxy baytril combo. On Friday we took her to the vet for a dexinjection and came away with prednisone to give her daily - it’s really helped but today seems to be tapering off a bit and I think the dose is too low (looking at the thread about dosage) but just wanted to check before we up it. In our eyes she is now in palliative care - she doesn’t seem in pain or distress at all but by this time we know she won’t be making any miraculous recovery - with everything that’s going on the vet isn’t easy at all and we just want her comfortable at home for now so we would rather her be on a higher dose and be comfortable if you know what I mean?!
so she weight 450 grams and I have 1mg tablets - if I go by the dosage 1mg for 1kg she should be having 0.45 of a 1mg tablet daily am I correct? As the vet put her on 1/4 of 1mg tab or 0.25 mg and I think he has erred on the side of caution with the lowest dose - but by this point (adding in the fact I’m sure we always lose a small amount of meds when using syringe etc) I think a more robust dosing would be better?
thanks in advance everyone