danny, we remember in posts gone by that some vets don't recommend you change up your tripawd's diet when you're doing chemo.  there's so much going all with the chemo affecting the g.i. tract, new food on top of that might be a total 'blow out'…  ask your vet, and maybe see if you should wait to modify your gal's diet until after the treatments are over.  good luck with your chemo!!!

charon & gayle

I'm going to echo ETGayle on this one.  Trouble had horrible allergies, and one of the things the vet requested was that we not change her food until after the chemo.  He didn't want to try to figure out if it was the drug or the food if she should develop a problem.

It is natural to try to do everything at once, and hard to convince ourselves not to.  For me, trusting my vet was a natural.  I knew without doubt he had Trouble's best interest at heart and he would fight as hard as we did for her health.

I can only imagine what you are going through after the thyroid cancer. Many good thoughts for a speedy recovery and uneventful chemo.  Trouble was given carboplatin.  She had surprisingly mild reaction to it.  Some mild nausea, several hours after the chemo was administered, and chills after a couple of treatments. None of it lasted more than an hour or so.