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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / July 2005Carey the unusual kitty update
As of last Friday, Carey has been on an increased amount of Cosequin and the addition of Cyproheptadine and have stopped the Prozac. I have a call into the vet about the Prozac though. Urination - nothing except in the box! YEA! Aggression towards other animals - daily and no trigger or provocation. She spends much of the day cuddled with one of the 3 (1 cat 2 dogs) and the other part attacking them. Skipjack is twice her size and won't fight back except minimal defense. He tries to run away from her, but she tackles him and is taking chunks of hair out of him. It's totally random. The 2 times she's been relentless, I've picked her up and put her in a room and closed the door. Once for about 30 minutes, but last night, at 12:30, I put her in there and went back to sleep - she got out in the morning. Other times, they're sleeping together, doing mutual grooming, etc. Same with the dogs. When she attacks the dogs, it's usually when they're active, which means near me generally, so I stop her, but they have amazing patience with her. I haven't found "prozac withdrawal" info, but does anyone have experience with that? She's back to her yowling too..... but of course, she always wants to eat because of the Periactin!  SignatureJanet B www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bestfriendsobedience/album You can't stop the prozac cold turkey. You have to ween your cat off of it slowly. Start off giving one half the normal dosage every day for about 10 days to 2 weeks, then give the half dosage every other day for about the same time period. Sue > As of last Friday, Carey has been on an increased amount of Cosequin > and the addition of Cyproheptadine and have stopped the Prozac. I [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > experience with that? She's back to her yowling too..... but of > course, she always wants to eat because of the Periactin! >You can't stop the prozac cold turkey. You have to ween your cat off of it >slowly. Start off giving one half the normal dosage every day for about 10 >days to 2 weeks, then give the half dosage every other day for about the >same time period. > >Sue thanks - i was only told "you can stop it". It's going back tonight, regular dosage for now. I have enough trouble cutting the damn thing in quarters and now I have to try 1/8's and 1/16's? ACK! Does it come in a baby dose or liquid? ;-D Poor Skip is not happy with being attacked. The dogs just shrug it off. SignatureJanet B www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bestfriendsobedience/album I get my cat's prozac compounded into a soft flavored chew. My cat still doesn't like it that much, but because it is soft, it is very easy to cut and then I roll it into a ball and just pop it down my cat's throat. The same place I get the flavored chew also compounds meds into flavored liquids. VETRXRX.com Sue >>You can't stop the prozac cold turkey. You have to ween your cat off of >>it [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Poor Skip is not happy with being attacked. The dogs just shrug it > off. >I get my cat's prozac compounded into a soft flavored chew. My cat still >doesn't like it that much, but because it is soft, it is very easy to cut [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Sue Carey loves taking pills (told you she was weird), but the cutting is a challenge! Will ask abut compounding. Just got a new bottle of pills :-( SignatureJanet B www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bestfriendsobedience/album >> I get my cat's prozac compounded into a soft flavored chew. My cat still >> doesn't like it that much, but because it is soft, it is very easy to cut [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > a challenge! Will ask abut compounding. Just got a new bottle of > pills :-( I got a very nice little pill cutter from the pharmacist. Very thin blade and looks something like the back end of a clothes pin. >I got a very nice little pill cutter from the pharmacist. Very thin blade >and looks something like the back end of a clothes pin. I need a picture! I have a few different ones - rubber to hold the pill, non rubber to hold but not to tight, disc with a middle blade. These prozac pills are tiny! SignatureJanet B www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bestfriendsobedience/album >> I got a very nice little pill cutter from the pharmacist. Very thin blade >> and looks something like the back end of a clothes pin. > > I need a picture! I have a few different ones - rubber to hold the > pill, non rubber to hold but not to tight, disc with a middle blade. > These prozac pills are tiny! It looks like this http://www.productsforseniors.com/pill_splitter.htm So are my lasix pills and I am supposed to cut them into fourths!! My mom sent it to me.It is what she uses and it works really well. > http://www.productsforseniors.com/pill_splitter.htm $3.50! That looks like something every cat slave should have. It would have come in handy cutting up Pepcid a couple years ago! SignatureCheryl "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." - W.C. Fields I think I bought something that looked very similar at CVS. It works pretty good on a pepcid pill. But over time I think the blade dulls a bit and it splinters the pill a little. Sue >> http://www.productsforseniors.com/pill_splitter.htm > > $3.50! That looks like something every cat slave should have. It > would have come in handy cutting up Pepcid a couple years ago! > I think I bought something that looked very similar at CVS. It works pretty > good on a pepcid pill. But over time I think the blade dulls a bit and it > splinters the pill a little. > > Sue Their cheap enough, I'd buy a couple. >> http://www.productsforseniors.com/pill_splitter.htm > > $3.50! That looks like something every cat slave should have. It > would have come in handy cutting up Pepcid a couple years ago! no kidding. Man those are hard to cut. >http://www.productsforseniors.com/pill_splitter.htm have a few versions of this, but the tiny and oblong (and thinly coated?) prozac just crumbles a bit when cutting in 1/4's. SignatureJanet B www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bestfriendsobedience/album >> http://www.productsforseniors.com/pill_splitter.htm > > have a few versions of this, but the tiny and oblong (and thinly > coated?) prozac just crumbles a bit when cutting in 1/4's. i still have a bit of crumblage, but it works way better than the old one I got that was box shaped and had a thicker blade. You should try it. Though the oblong shape would make it tough. Maybe you should try compounding. >>> I get my cat's prozac compounded into a soft flavored chew. My cat >>> still doesn't like it that much, but because it is soft, it is very [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I got a very nice little pill cutter from the pharmacist. Very thin blade > and looks something like the back end of a clothes pin. Albertsons carries them at the drug department. > You can't stop the prozac cold turkey. You have to ween your > cat off of it slowly. Start off giving one half the normal > dosage every day for about 10 days to 2 weeks, then give the > half dosage every other day for about the same time period. This is similar to the dose schedule I was given to try to wean Shamrock off of Clomicalm. I thought I'd give it a try to cut back his dosage because his behavior seemed "modified". After just over a week on a smaller dose of .5 ml (he's been getting .7 ml per day of a compounded formula- not sure of the actual mg dose) his behavior started up again and he was just not happy. Had to go back up to the .7. His behavior wasn't modified; he was just drugged. :( SignatureCheryl "The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath." - W.C. Fields > As of last Friday, Carey has been on an increased amount of Cosequin > and the addition of Cyproheptadine and have stopped the Prozac. I > have a call into the vet about the Prozac though. > > Urination - nothing except in the box! YEA! Excellent news. She should be weaned off the Prozac but if you have gone 3 days or more, it is probably too late. Keep us posted! -L. >Excellent news. She should be weaned off the Prozac but if you have >gone 3 days or more, it is probably too late. > >Keep us posted! > >-L. Put her back on the Prozac last night. No middle of the night attacks (just sucking on poor Franklin, who got up and went somewhere else to sleep). She seems a whole lot more normal today. SignatureJanet B www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bestfriendsobedience/album |
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