Storm's & Starr's Holistic Vet Visit:Update Starr's 2nd Holistic Visit 8-23-07

[Catty1]

YAY Starr! Is there a milder or lower dose of B12?

Glad he is doing well.

And Storm is mellowing?...we'll have to change his name to Spring Breeze...

[krazyaboutkatz]

YAY Starr! Is there a milder or lower dose of B12?

Glad he is doing well.

And Storm is mellowing?...we'll have to change his name to Spring Breeze...

I was reading what was in the Feline Vitamin Supplement and it has vitamin B-12 in it so I think this will be good enough for him. I was also giving him 5mg of Vitamin B-12 every month in a shot and this is probably a very strong dose since it's given monthly. I'll stop giving this to him because I'd hate to see this cause him to relapse again. I'm sure that the holistic vet will agree with me and I'll be seeing her again next Thursday.

[jenluckenbach]

Yup, I've been reading. Glad things are improving.

[Kater]

Thank you for answering my questions...it does help.

I'm SO glad to hear that things are going well with Starr & Storm.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Hi, I thought I'd update you about Starr. He went to the holistic vet again today and he was much calmer towards her. She gave him another accupunture treatment and when she felt his tummy area she could tell that he has already improved. He's been doing very well.

I asked her when we could start weaning him off of the pred. She wants to wait until he's been on the supplements for at least 60 days to make sure that his system is back on track. Then we'll do it very slowly. She said if he had been on the pred for a long time then it would take even longer to wean him off of it. She's been working with a cat that was on pred for about 6 years and it's taken about 1 year to get him down to a very small dose of pred which he'll eventually be weaned off of.

I asked her if I had taken Starr to her when I first started noticing his diarrhea problem if she would have treated him differently. She said that he would have probably only had to be on 2 of his 3 supplements and that he probably wouldn't have needed his GI Encap supplement. Back then it never even occurred to me to take him to a holistic vet. Starr goes back in 3 weeks and Storm goes back for his 2nd visit on Sept. 6th. Storm's been calmer lately but he still has stormy moments. She said that in time these should go away.

[jazzcat]

Glad things are going so well KAK!

How about Storm, has he calmed down and stopped chasing. Please let me know because if it works I would like to check into it for Rocky. I thought he had gotten a little better but last night (I'm 99% sure it was Rocky) jumped or just really scared Scout and she limped around for about a half hour. She's fine now but this is getting out of hand.