My cat's anaemia

[paulaph]

[BeeNumber12]

[paulaph]

[BeeNumber12]

[paulaph]

[Maudy]

[BeeNumber12]

Absolutely, Andrea. It's crazy.
Not only crazy, but crazy-making.
I can't imagine if Martyn had never put up this forum and information.
(Well, I can imagine. There was nothing all the years in the 1990's when I searched. What I did find was in medical terms, not lay terms so I had no clue that I actually had very poor proprioception; Lhermitte's sign, etc.)

Why are Vets so informed and allopaths not informed?

Dorothy

On another point about Vets: our vets always telephone us in a day or so to check up on our pets after they've sent us home with treatment. Great bedside manner, Vets have.

[Maudy]

The other big difference between vets and GPs that bug me no end is the '3 symptoms" syndrome.

I've faced this one. You go to the docs and try and tell them what's wrong and they will only look at 3 things. So my eyes never got looked at!
I've never yet had a vet ask me what's wrong with an animal and then stopped me after the 3rd symptom. Surely they can't find out what is wrong if they don't have the whole picture????
Crazy stuff.

[JDee]

One of mum's previous GPs would only discuss one problem per appointment. Make another one to discuss the next issue!!! That is a very caring attitude - NOT!!

Jac

[Maudy]

It's not even that it's not caring, Jac - it's not professional, it's not effective, it's not productive. I still sit back and think of the last experience I had and despite numerous visits hardly got to mention my eyes apart from saying I'd seen an optician and she couldn't find a problem. There was, of course, the little issue that my eyesight had deteriorated dramatically, but I needed someone to look at why I go blind in one of them. Or why they start running (picture eyes running off) in the sunshine. Or focus from light to dark. Or, if I'm not looking at my hands when they do something, they do what they want.

It's like the medical profession really have reverted to some bygone era where they are treating all their patients like unimportant serfs who have the brains of a lizard. Mind you, it would still be the bygone era where the experts proved the earth was flat...

Andrea, just read your latest post. That's exactly what they do. They ask you to pick the most important symptoms first. My symptoms are definitely cyclical (sp?) Sometimes my back, sometimes my legs, sometimes my vision, sometimes trembling, sometimes confusion....
Like you say, what happens if I pick the wrong one. What happens if I'm not getting that many palpitations that day....

[BeeNumber12]

ooo, nasty stuff. I am familiar with EPI in dogs. Here's a website from Texas A & M University that I have poured over more than once. It has recently been recommended by the American Veterinarian Medical Association as _the_ online resource for EPI. B12 shots are part of their recommended treatment.

http://www.epi4dogs.com/
The site allows no copying but have a look here at what it says about B12.
http://www.epi4dogs.com/b12.htm

Maybe we should just all line up at our Vet's door!

Dorothy
(Hope the kitty is getting its b12...)

[BeeNumber12]

The education gap or whatever it is, is beyond pathetic.
Humans trying to get B12
Animals, B12 and veterinarians


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[kimks mom]

Pancreatic Insufficiency, a cause of Vit. B12 Malabsorption or pernicious anaemia in humans

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE ... 3252841202

I am on the same medicine, Tapazole, as my cat was who passed three years ago. It didn't take long for my Vet to diagnose her with hyperthyroidism. It took my doctor much longer to diagnose me. BP was monitored and there is even the same kind of surgery available for cats (dogs are usually hypothyroid) as there is for humans if the meds fail to control the hyperthyroidism.

~Pat

[martyn]

I know that one of the Trustees of the society gets his B12 from his Vet.....

[kimks mom]