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My cat Mona got cancer from a vaccine injection and had her leg amputated. I was stunned to say the least. I`m less stunned not but am still angry that pharmaceuticals are still given to our pets with the pharma companies, vets, the regulatory and approval agencies full well knowing the adverse affects. This information is not passed on to us.
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This article is worth reading. Perhaps it can provide you with some questions to ask your vet when a medicine or treatment is recommended. What astounds me the most is that no one is tracking the side effects of some drugs commonly used by veterinarians such as tramadol and gabapentin. Also some of the ingredients in the drugs prescribed have been reported in connection with deaths, anorexia, collapsing and vomiting in dogs. As reported in this article, those ingredients are in Deramaxx, Rimadyl, Immiticide. I realize that sometimes we don`t have many options when we are dealing with our pet`s pain but I think it would be helpful to know that when our pet vomits or collapses that it could very well be the medication.
My Mona seems healthy today but this type of cancer is know to spread. She will not get another vaccine. That`s an easy choice for me. I know others don`t have easy answers to keep their pets pain free and healthy.
Kerren and Tri-kitty Mona
Wow!! Scary!!
And to read caprofen has more deaths related to it than Triflexis? Did I read that right?
Kudos to the journalists investigating these drugs.
Thanks Kerre and Mona! Good job!
Happy Hannah had a glorious additional bonus time of over one yr & two months after amp for osteo! She made me laugh everyday! Joined April's Angels after send off meal of steak, ice cream, M&Ms & deer poop!
Hi Sally,
Yes, you read that correctly, however Carprofen has been on the market since 1997 and Trifexis for only 3 years. This gives an extra 15 years for deaths to be reported from the Carprofen than the Triflexis. In addition they don't know how many doses were sold of each product so it's impossible to tell which drug has the higher rate of complaints and might be more dangerous.
Without research and proper reporting of side effects we do not know which products are more dangerous. We do not know our options.
The immunologist who discovered that certain vaccines gave cats cancer estimated that it was 1 in 750 cats got tumours from vaccines. Whereas the pharmaceutical companies and vets say 1 in 10,000. I say it's under-reported because many times a pathology report is not done due to cost and other times they don't know for sure which vaccine it was. The cost may come down to a few hundred dollars to euthanize the cat versus $3,000 and more to treat the cancer which might have already spread. No one knows for sure how many cats get vaccine associated cancer, they only know what gets reported (after great cost to the cat owner).
I wanted to share this article so we can start asking our vets more questions about the drugs we give our pets.
I agree with you, kudos to the journalist for this research.
Kerren and Tripawd Mona
Thanks for sharing this Kerren. It's something that most pet parents don't think about until something goes wrong.
We learned this lesson when Jerry was prescribed Previcox during the time his limping got bad, before we knew he really had osteo. The vet never told us about potential side effects to look out for (GI upset, black stool), and if we hadn't have done our own homework when things started looking weird, he may have gotten very, very sick. Instead we stopped the Previcox, took him to a 2nd vet and found out the cause of his limping.
While some of the pet parent-provided website info about drug reactions and side effects is hard to scientifically validate, I think if more vets took time to really inform their clients about potential side effects of drugs, there would be a lot less heartache.
Here's a good Yahoo group to check out whenever your dog is on NSAIDs, it's how we found out about Previcox. It's from our Resources Page:
Dogs Adverse Reactions is another place to learn about the dangers of Non-Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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