My Kitty Alex: seizures/atrophy-Cancer?

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, " heylaurag " <heylaurag

wrote:

 

From talking to various vets it seems like most agree that it is

probably cancer--or at least neurological. I can't imagine putting

him through brain surgery. Anyone have experience with treating

cancer with Chinese herbs--with people or animals?

 

 

 

 

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> One more thing--I would appreciate any guidelines on dosing. I am

> using granules and I have shots for fluid injection that are about 6

> milliliters. I put 5 scoops in a cup of warm water and gave him about

> 12 milliliters total. Also, I wonder about adding yin tonics to

> ground the seizures, but I also have to keep in mind that there quite

> likely is a very strong pathogen in him and I don't want to tonify the

> pathogen. I was looking at the main seizures formula as a basis of

> the formula--I think its called Ding Zhi Wan (something like that).

> Then I also added heat clearers--all the Huangs plus Shi Gao.

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> , " heylaurag " <heylaurag@>

> wrote:

> >

> > Hi all, I'm really hoping that I can gain some insight into helping my

> > poor sweet little kitty Alex. He's very ill and we are just

> > devastated about it.

> >

> > It started last Monday with the only symptom being walking funny as if

> > he had low back pain. However he did not seem to experience pain upon

> > any touching or rubbing or movement--he just was walking funny with

> > his low back lower to the ground.

> >

> > We went to Western docs--got anti-inflamatories, narcotics (Buprenex),

> > and he was also given Remeron (an antidepressant) as an appetite

> > stimulant.

> >

> > From Monday to Friday nothing changed--the meds did not seem to help

> > much if at all. The only noteworthy thing is that he was doing a lot

> > of pacing around and around the bed. I wondered if it was akithisia,

> > which is a side of effect of psychiatric meds, but rarely Remeron.

> >

> > Since he had this side effect they changed his narcotic to Torbugesic

> > after we took him in for blood work on Friday. He had to stay at the

> > vet clinic for about6 hours which is very stressful for him because

> > although he is the sweetest kitty in the world to us, he is terrified

> > of strangers (ever since he was traumatized at the vet by a technician

> > who got soap in his eye and then proceeded to aggressively wash it

> > out--prior to that he was very, very friendly to people). I mention

> > this stress because I wonder if it is a factor in what happened next:

> >

> > Saturday morning we found him completely immobile laying on his side

> > and having what appeared to be seizures. We called our vet--they said

> > that his blood work had come back completely normal except for a

> > slightly raised thyroid--too slight to account for all of this.

> >

> > We took him to the emergency clinic and they said they had no idea

> > what was going on--could be viral, bacterial, cancer, stroke, poison,

> > or any neurological condition. They decided on the " shot-gun "

> > approach and sent him home with steroids and broad spectrum

> > antibiotics. I decided to wait on giving the meds and see what

> > acupuncture could do:

> >

> > I did a treatment on him and right afterward he was much, much better.

> > He was able to stumble around the room (a huge improvement after near

> > paralysis). But then that night he was taking a turn for the worst

> > again so we gave him the antibiotics and steroids.

> >

> > Today he has been much worse--even worse than yesterday morning

> > because his seizures have been coming at least every 10 minutes. I

> > have done a lot of acupuncture and probably too much today--I got

> > obsessed out of desperation.

> >

> > Finally I went to my clinic and made a formula and came home and gave

> > it to him about 1 1/2 hours ago. He has only had one seizure since,

> > so its definitely an improvement. But he is still just laying on his

> > side seemingly immobile. Since I do not know what is going on with

> > him I did my own version of a shot-gun approach. Part of my thinking

> > is that he has been very constipated and has not had a stool in a week

> > (they got some out with an enema but said there was still a lot there)

> > He goes to the litter box and tries and tries but is unable.

> > Urination is also a strain but possible:

> >

> > Da Huang

> > Wen Dan Tang (has zhi Shi to help with the constipation along with

> > other phlegm herbs for wind phlegm for the seizures)

> > Huang Lian

> > Huang Bai

> > Huang Qin

> > Tian Ma

> > Gou Teng

> > Shi Chang Pu

> > Yuan Zhi

> > Mai Men Dong

> > Shi Gao

> > Dan Nan Xing

> > Jiang Can

> > Dan Shen

> >

> > There might be something I am forgetting, but that is most of it. I

> > would love to hear any feedback or ideas. I wonder if I should add qi

> > tonics since he appears so weak--but maybe the weakness is from the

> > power of the pathogen and I do hope to purge things down and out

> > through the stool. I was reading recently about how important it is

> > to treat the constipation if it is there and there is a head-wind

> > strike situation.

> >

> > My plan is to continue the antibiotics plus the herbs but stop the

> > steroids. The steroids, from what I understand, can either be life

> > savers or make things worse. Since he was so much worse today I think

> > its a good idea to stop (but am open to opinions).

> >

> > I sure would appreciate any thoughts or sharing of experiences.

> >

> > A very sad mommy on Mother's Day,

> >

> > Laura

> >

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