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Originally Posted by wahawaha  Thanks for this advice. I called the manufacturer & vet. Vet said "if you want to come in we can switch the meds for you" and took no responsibility for the error. I was planning on switching vets to someone closer, and now I'm definitely doing it. Making an appt. for Winston to be checked out next week. This was a scary eye opener about how careful I have to be & not just trust the vets. |
yeah well i have learned that myself i check everything sadly now
My girl had to go on atopica and i had asked the vet about it as learned about it from a lady at a pet store yep vet never mentioned it for my allergy dog. She just got back from seminar so was gung ho on it after i mentioned it to her and i knew there was 10mg dose which was for my 7lb dog as goes up to 9lb for 10mg and i pick up the box and it says 25mg and i said no way get the vet she comes out and says it is safe for my 7lb dog she called the mfg and i said no i called them too and it is 10mg and i have a dog coming out of the hospital with pancreatitis who could vomit and this drug causes vomitting and i do not want two dogs who are vomitting at home not knowing which one and this is too high of a dose for my dog can we not start small and go up since this drug causes vomitting. I wanted dd on it as she was on prednisone and pred can cause pancreatitis so i was scared to death dd was going to get pancreatitis like my dex.
I finally paid for med was so furious and then said i am done with vets going to dermatologist and derm said i was right glad I did not give med. I then called vet and returned med and went to a new vet. I no longer trusted her. When i called mfg about dose she wanted to give they also said you are correct we would have never said that as your dog is less than 10lb and the doseage for her is 10mg and 25mg is for 9-16lb dog. I felt like she got the wrong doseage so she rather than return it just figured give my dog the higher dose - she has since sold practice to another vet and i switched vets at the time this happened
I have seen so much of this kind of stuff you can ask 3 vets about same drug and get 3 different doseages - my girl has staph and it is almost cleared up and vet said 1.2 ml twice daily and dermatologist said 1.2 once daily of clindamyacin - of course i went with dermatologist as it was more conservative and she knows more about skin and the staph is almost gone so you really have to do your homework, read everything, and then go with what you think is best I have found