7/12 SHEBA AMPS 180;+3.5 243;+4.5 203; +7 157

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Bron and Sheba (GA)

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http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/threads/7-11-sheba-amps-394-bounce-4-326-5-293.140809/

Sheba came down off the bounce last cycle and had a respectable AMPS this morning.
AMPS 180

Appetite remains good and her mobility unaffected so far after stopping the metacam....the next couple of weeks will tell the story.
I haven't started the tramadol yet. Having heard of bad side effect...........frothing at the mouth...I have decided to wait until Monday when my regular vets are around before starting. The vet on this weekend I am not fond of at all.
Thanks everyone who visited us yesterday. The support here is great.
Very cold here this morning ........7 degrees but feels like 2degrees according to the weather bureau. Windy and bleak. Lots of snow around....but not here. I live too close to the coast....10 minutes away.
 
It was Serryn who told me about the frothing at the mouth. Could well have been the taste. No I don't have gel caps.......I've heard them mentioned on the forum but never seen them. If I can't give the tramadol to Sheba either hidden in food or straight down the throat I will inquire about the gel caps, thanks.
Normally I can just crush tablets and put in her food and she eats it, but if it is bitter she probably won't.
 
I suspect that they taste nasty and would hate to put her off her food. My Tiffany tasted Pepcid in a pill pocket once and never ate another one and I even tried them plain. You might be able to get gel caps at a health food store but call because you need small ones. I use size 3 and 4 and at one point some 1's but no bigger. The larger the number the smaller the gel cap. Amazon sells them.
 
tiffmaxee said:
I suspect that they taste nasty and would hate to put her off her food. My Tiffany tasted Pepcid in a pill pocket once and never ate another one and I even tried them plain. You might be able to get gel caps at a health food store but call because you need small ones. I use size 3 and 4 and at one point some 1's but no bigger. The larger the number the smaller the gel cap. Amazon sells them.
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I have just looked online and I can get size 3,4,or 5 locally (in Sydney) . 500 for 20dollars.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Empty-Hard-Gelatin-Capsule-Size-5-Yellow-Yellow-x-500-/161492263172
Do these look like they are the right ones? @tiffmaxee
 
I use 3's and 4's. There isn't much difference in size. What's nice is that you can combine pills and pills pieces into one gelcap. I bought the 5's once but they aren't worth it.
 
We usually only have 1 hot month ( 90 degrees) June.
Very coolish starting in august..... snow from november to march. monsoon rains in July.
I'm at 7500 ft above sea level... up in the mountains.
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Very pretty area. No wonder you don't think 2 to 6 is cold! @rhiannon and shadow
Our climate is almost the reverse of yours. Cold for one or two months, cool for a couple of other months then warm to hot. We can swim from sept to April usually. The kids are swimming in the pool by the sept school hols and often still by Easter. Our winter days are often sunny and lovely to sit in the sun...cools down about 4 pm. Further inland and up in the mountains the weather is colder
 
Looks like Sheba is steady as she goes, and debating a return to the blue floor. :) Great news on the appy and mobility. I've seen one or two people here use tramadol regularly. It is Neko's vet's third choice after bupe and gabapentin for pain. Are there any vets there that do acupuncture? It seems to help Neko quite a bit.

7 degrees is a regular winter day for us, along with rain. Below 8 and it's snowing in the mountains behind us.
 
Wendy&Neko said:
Looks like Sheba is steady as she goes, and debating a return to the blue floor. :) Great news on the appy and mobility. I've seen one or two people here use tramadol regularly. It is Neko's vet's third choice after bupe and gabapentin for pain. Are there any vets there that do acupuncture? It seems to help Neko quite a bit.

7 degrees is a regular winter day for us, along with rain. Below 8 and it's snowing in the mountains behind us.
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I looked online yesterday for any vets that did acupuncture around our general area.......none really close....the closest one is half an hour away. Sheba gets stressed in the car so I don't like taking her far if I can help it. I do like the idea of acupuncture though. I will ask my vet when I am in next. He might know of someone closer. He has agreed to monthly cartrophen injections which I am really pleased about.
The next few weeks will be telling for Sheba as it will be about the same length of time as the last time when I stopped the metacam and her mobility got bad and her BSLs went up again. I am hoping the cartrophen has helped.
 
Just think king about a morning :coffee: and those scones would go perfect, sound delicious. Sheba is off to a good start today, hope she gives you a nice blue cycle.
Brrrr, sounds chilly there, best stay indoors.
 
While you are packaging up those scones, send a few here too. :)

The other thing to investigate is a traveling vet that does acupuncture. There is one in Vancouver that I could have used, but Neko's not bad for travel (after driving over 2000 km each way for SRT).
 
The vet I take Minka to for acupuncture will come to your home. Just not to mine, as she's based in Sacramento and we live 60 miles away. I meed her at my vet's office.

Glad to see Sheba finally got enough of the yellow floor and headed down. Cinco is there on the blue floor, so she can hang with him..

Your weather sounds quite delightful. I abhor heat. I don't mind cold weather. This is the time of year here when I'm most miserable. And sell my soul to the electric company!! Thank God for A/C!

I buy our gelcaps from either Thrivingpets.com or Capsuline.com. Don't know if either ships to Australia, though. Thriving pets looks like they might. They charge e $10 fee for shipments to another country. I actually find the #5 size quite useful, as Sasha's bronchial dialator has to be broken down to 1/4 tablet, which ends up being quite small, and it fits in the #5. She usually doesn't get anything else that I could combine with it. I use the #5, #4 and #3 capsules daily, depending on what I'm putting in them.

Cinco's been on Tramadol before this, and I've never seen him froth at the mouth. I suspect using a gelcap would eliminate that issue.
 
Frothing here usually means my cat got a taste...icky, froth it out.

Hope the pain meds all resolve and you find something that works without annoying side effects.

Marilyn and Polly
 
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