Healing could be killing

[Rissa]

The questions to ask are whatever questions you have, if something doesn't feel right ask. I am someone who asks a million questions, I am sure I drive my vet and my doctor crazy. I don't mean to always question your vet but if a vet ever does anything you don't 100% understand I feel I have the right to an explanation. I if I don't understand a course of action or why they want to do something I ask if they can clarify.

I am sorry to hear about your Tilly and I'm sure its a hard decision to make but its a really personal one. With their short lives we are always having to pick and choose the best route for our little guys

 

[Petunia]

The questions to ask are whatever questions you have, if something doesn't feel right ask. I am someone who asks a million questions, I am sure I drive my vet and my doctor crazy. I don't mean to always question your vet but if a vet ever does anything you don't 100% understand I feel I have the right to an explanation. I if I don't understand a course of action or why they want to do something I ask if they can clarify.

I am sorry to hear about your Tilly and I'm sure its a hard decision to make but its a really personal one. With their short lives we are always having to pick and choose the best route for our little guys

I guess this was just the point I was trying to make: there are no absolutes. You have to use your own judgment and make the decision YOU personally feel is best for your loved one.
That may, in some instances, mean going against what some one in a position of "authority" tells you, for example your vet or pharmacist.

They are not gods, they don't know everything, and while I am not suggesting that we stop trusting them altogether, we do have to remember that they can make mistakes and they can be flat out wrong sometimes.

I've actually got more to say about that, but it will have to wait because I've got to get some pads made for my girls carrier for her surgery tomorrow

but before I go, what I am saying is NOT addressed to any person or persons in particular;
it's actually things that I've been thinking a lot about and am trying to sort out in my mind- and I guess, here to, in writing.

 

[Rissa]

I think I need to clarify the reason I wrote the post was kinda like building up. First I got sent the wrong meds last year, then I heard of others getting sent the wrong meds. My sis and I were talking about counterfeit meds, that was really the WHA? point. I understand fake shoes, and fake purses but to gamble on some innocent persons life thats wrong on so many levels, and I just wanted to get that out there to as many people as possible.

 

[Petunia]

sorry, I guess this is something that's been on my mind a lot lately, but from a different perspective.

yeh, really, counterfeit meds is so wrong on so many levels.

really makes you wonder how the people who make and sell them, can sleep at night.
:redhot:

 

[Scythe]

I'd like to add this, as just sort of a 'Food For Thought' idea.

A while ago, Dr.Munn prescribed Doxycycline Roy for his headtilt. We kept trying it, on and off, with combinations of things. When Roy was OFF Doxy, we noticed improvement. When he was on it? Roy would not touch food. He would not touch his meds. He would not move. Roy lost about 100g in the duration he was on Doxy. When he was off it? Depending on the combination of drugs, there was improvement -- but either way, when off doxy, he still ate. Even if the headtilt never improved, Roy still ate, he still greeted me, did things he never did when he was on Doxy.

The vets conclusion was that one of the meds he was on actually makes him worse. He was 'allergic' to it, in a sense, and said that Roy can't have it anymore. So when we connected the dots, Doxy was the only medicine CONSISTENT with this declined behaviour. Roy isn't supposed to have Doxy anymore, no matter the illness.

If I'd been using non-prescribed medications, I wouldn't have known this, and who knows what would have happened to Roy.

 

[Rattus]

I completely agree and in ways do not its just also hard when your vet lies and refuses to give you a perscription because they dont have meds that small animals need yet they treat them!? :? saying pharmacies dont have it and then you call them personally and they do then you phone the vet back and they make a fuzz about it and you STILL dont get the perscription.. now THAT is stress enough to make you break down and its the only vet for 2 hours.. personal experience :huh: