Re: 04/27 J.D. AMPS 301, +1.5 271 at vet, +3 243, +4.5 232
Marje and Gracie said:
Hi Dyana
Sounds like a good vetty report. Interesting about the BP because my vets said absolute top number in the clinic should be 160 which is consistent with
Cornell Unive Hypertension]. The top of the normal range for cats is about 125 so the 160 takes into account white coat syndrome.
I'm not sure I understand why vets are so reticent to put cats on BP meds. Gus had numbers similar to JDs and he is on amlodipine with no side effects and his BP is really nice and normal now. He's on a very low dose. High BP can cause other health issues.
Not to scare you with all this but I just wonder if you took some info to your vet, if he might change his mind.
On the calipers....I was also zeroing mine out before every draw and then resetting it on the dose. When Zeners Mom, Liz, was here, she said she just leaves hers on the current dose because then it is consistent each time and, it's faster...of course. So I've started doing that as well. She's an engineer so I trust her with this kind of stuff :lol: :lol:
Have a great day!
The vet office just called me because they didn't charge me the right amount and wanted to charge me more..
I told them to fax the results of the urinalysis to our regular vet. I'll try calling our regular vet next week, and see what he says about the blood pressure. I just wouldn't want his blood pressure to go too low, because he sleeps so deeply. I can't tell you how many times I've slowly woken him up when he was a rag doll. That's scary.
Anyway, I left a copy of the blood pressure results with our regular vet's office on the way home from the other vet, as I needed to pick up some cyproheptadine. They had some with an expiration of 08/2015 Yay!
Maybe, I'll print out the link you sent me (Thanks!) and fax that to my regular vet, tomorrow when we're at work, so we can discuss it.
Looks like J.D.'s going to be Mr. Yellow, today. Although, +4 is just about the onset of Levemir.
I did ask the doctor we saw today, again "What about his tail?" and he said I could give him Buprenex. I asked him if my supply of bupe (a vial or two from April of 2012 when he was diagnosed with cronic pancreatitis, and 3 leftover pre-filled syringes from his dental in January 2013) would still be good, and he said they would. The vials have 1.50ml in them and are in green bottles kept in a cardboard box with other meds, I'm not currently using, and the three pre-filled syringes have 0.37mls each, and are kept in the dark brown plastic bag they came in, in the vegetable bin of my refrigerator.
The doctor said I could give him .2ml of bupe when his tail acts weird. I told the doctor, he only does it for like 5 minutes and then stops. I wish I knew what caused it.
He did have an injury when he was like 5 or 6 years old, and I found him at my front door with his back legs not working. The vet that saw him thought either he had been hit by a car or had a cat fight. The odds of him being hit by a car where I lived at the time were slim, and there was a feral? mean cat that hung out on the property, so I always blamed that mean cat as he had caused two other vet visits from beating up my cats. After that last incident, my cats learned to only go outside on leashes, after spending hundreds on the three vet visits from injurys suffered from fights with that mean cat, and at least one if not both (I can't quite remember now) were from slashes across the butt end of the spine. J.D. had to live for a month in my bathroom until his back legs worked again. Maybe, that has something to do with it. When I try to Google "cat pulls tail between legs" I get results for children pulling cats tails, and the body language of cats and dogs :?
as I have to be up at 3:30 tomorrow morning to leave for work at 4:30am. 
Have a great time this year! Wish I could go......