Guest guest Posted September 29, 2003 Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 Hi everyone For anyone who's ever used the AP for a pet or knows where I can find info kindly email me privately. Many thanks, Judy in NZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 Fellow rheumatic groupies. Since I've received several requests for this, I'll include in this forum the dosage information I've sent to others " back channel " . For those I've responded to previously, some additional information is now included. To J & P Burke, I apologize if you didn't want your back-channel email posted, but no personal or sensitive information is included. I hope others will find this information useful. One of my cats (Tigg'r) started showing signs of arthritis in his knees at around age 6. We took him to the vet, and received the diagnosis. There was also fluid buildup in the knee, and no external injury which would be a possible cause for the fluid buildup. They X-Ray'd him, drained the fluid, and asked us to come back in two weeks. Two weeks later, no fluid visible in the X-Ray, but his knee-joint was lookong arthritic. They asked us to come back again in two weeks. Two weeks passed, and again no fluid, but still symptoms of arthritis. With testing kit in hand from Garth Nicolson's lab, we asked the vet to pull blood and send it off for testing. The results were positive for Mycoplasma hominis. The vet was completely shocked, as he had been taught (sp?) that no test exists for M. hominis. Anyway, with those results, and the documentation from Garth's web site, we convinced the vet to prescribe antibiotics. Well, we have 3 cats from the same litter. I was impossible to feed just one at a time...so they all got the treatment We originally tried sharing a 50mg tab among the 3, but it was too much for their stomachs to handle. So we dropped down to the following: we mixed in 1 25mg tablet with soft cat food in the evening. On average, that equates to 8-1/3 mg per feline. With their weights varying from 12 to 20 pounds (yep, we grew them big), it came out to be the mass-equivalent of the 100mg per day dosage for us human-types. Oh yeah, we gave them the weekends " off " from the treatment, and fed them tuna...yammers nummers. I personally do not recommend trying to put a pill down a cat's throat...It's almost as bad as trying to give them a bath, not quite, but close. And they hate you for it, either looking at you with really sad eyes, or angry stares, growling as you walk by, snubbing you, guilt-tripping you. When we switched to mixing with their soft food, they hadn't a clue, and were our best friends again. Anyway, enough rambling. Antibiotic used: doxycycline (sp?) Duration of Treatment: 1 month seemed to do it in his case. As they are 9 years old now, and they are indoor-only, spayed/neutered, declawed, I expect them to live into their late teens. I would imagine needing to, in future years, utilize this again when they develop arthritis symptoms due to old age. No probiotic given. Some day, I'll include a picture... Kind of hard to believe a guy could be so attached to his cats, eh? P.S., Dr. Garth Nicolson's lab and his " testing kit " for pets can be found at the following link... http://www.immed.org/illness/veterinary_testing.html Bye 4 now Creighton rheumatic RE: AP for pets Hi everyone For anyone who's ever used the AP for a pet or knows where I can find info kindly email me privately. Many thanks, Judy in NZ To unsubscribe, email: rheumatic-unsubscribeegroups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 Hi Creighton, I found your post interesting as I have been giving my cat AP for some time now. She has a rip roaring case of IBS so I decided to give AP a try. She started off around 4 lbs from all the vomiting and diarrhea but since AP is now up to 9lbs. Totally under control as long as I stay with 10mg minocin MWF right before her breakfast of canned food. She gets refrigerated acidophilus at all OTHER meals (2x day) and a tiny bit of crushed enzyme. I use a gun powder scale to divide up pellets of 100mg capsules of minocin and then put in " cut down " tiny gel caps for easy swallowing. I'm an old hand at pill giving so this is no problem for me. My vet thought this was nuts but I told him I didn't care what he thought. The results speak for themselves. He went the traditional route of flagyl, reglan and pred for one year before I switched her over to AP. She was improved on those drugs but I couldn't see her taking them for life. Besides, I wanted all better not just getting by. I recently tried to cut her dose to 2x week after 2 yrs and the vomiting started all over again after only one week so I added back the third dose. She's now 8 yrs old and will probably be a lifer. I should mention she was on generic pelletized mino and when I switched her over to name brand she seemed to herx and really zipped along after that. I have a shepherd/husky mix with a severe case of IBS and she was brought up to wellness with AP and then maintaining with 1/2 cap of Caltrate 600Plus daily and refrigerated acidophilis, 1 capsule 1x day. Went from 13 lbs from when I got her at the pound to a whopping 50 lbs today. Not bad, ey? No more daily diarrhea several times per day either. As Martha would say, AP is a good thing! Hugs, Betty >Two weeks passed, and again no fluid, but > still symptoms of arthritis. With testing kit in hand from Garth Nicolson's > lab, we asked the vet to pull blood and send it off for testing. The > results were positive for Mycoplasma hominis. The vet was completely > shocked, as he had been taught (sp?) that no test exists for M. hominis. > Anyway, with those results, and the documentation from Garth's web site, we > convinced the vet to prescribe antibiotics. > > Well, we have 3 cats from the same litter. I was impossible to feed just > one at a time...so they all got the treatment > > We originally tried sharing a 50mg tab among the 3, but it was too much for > their stomachs to handle. So we dropped down to the following: we mixed in > 1 25mg tablet with soft cat food in the evening. On average, that equates > to 8-1/3 mg per feline. With their weights varying from 12 to 20 pounds > (yep, we grew them big), it came out to be the mass-equivalent of the 100mg > per day dosage for us human-types. Oh yeah, we gave them the weekends " off " > from the treatment, and fed them tuna...yammers nummers. > >> > Antibiotic used: doxycycline (sp?) > Duration of Treatment: 1 month seemed to do it in his case. >> > http://www.immed.org/illness/veterinary_testing.html > > Bye 4 now > Creighton > > > > > >> > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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