Cali has been on it for at least a year and a half. She has mild MVD confirmed by a liver biopsy. Has GI problems including HGE but her vet checked out the Atopica before giving it to her and said she could take it.
It has made a dramatic change in her scratching. Her coat has come back in where she had scratched it out, she scratches occasionally but nothing close to what she use to do. She would keep me up at night scratching and I felt so bad for her. We went through all the testing, food elimination and other medicines and nothing worked. I can't get her off the once a day regiment though, I tried every other day and she started scratching again. Her pills run 60.00 a month but well worth it to stop her misery. She doesn't have any side effects but when she first went on she got real sick, lethargic and throwing up so her vet had her on a low dose of a steroid for the first 2 weeks and she was fine after that. |