silver puppy/Cody and oleander

[Guest guest]

Can anyone please help and let me know if there are any side effects of oleander such as refusing food? I need to know as I have Cody on this now and he's not acting right.

 

Thank you,

 

Bonnie & Cody

 

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[Guest guest]

Bonnie,

 

This is not a side effect of oleander.

 

Love and Hugs,

 

 

oleander soup , evian793 wrote:

>

> Can anyone please help and let me know if there are any side effects

of

> oleander such as refusing food? I need to know as I have Cody on this

now and

> he's not acting right.

>

> Thank you,

>

> Bonnie & Cody

>

> PS: I have also upped his CS by a lot.

>

>

>

> **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for

> FanHouse Fantasy Football today.

> (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)

>

[Guest guest]

Bonnie, I did chemotherapy for stage III

colon cancer in 2000 for one month. One treatment 1x per week.

Below is what I felt in that short amount of time.

 

1) 1st treatment. No big

deal. Felt fine and thought " I can do this! " No problem

with food.

 

2) 2nd treatment. Felt shaky

after treatment. Diarrhea began. Was told to take Imodium AD and

everything would be fine. Not so, as bowel control became difficult.

Nausea began to set in. Was prescribed a bottle of anti-nausea medication

that cost my insurance company $1500. Did nothing for my nausea. Paregoric

was the only thing that remotely helped, but it gave me restless leg. As

long as I was completely still, I would get a bit of relief from the

nausea. Christmas was this week and I had wanted to skip this treatment

so I would feel good, but the nurse said it was important not to skip

treatment. She made it sound like it would be the worse decision of my life if

I decided to skip treatment. So I was a good little patient and complied

and Christmas was a complete blur.

 

3) 3rd treatment. Lost 7

pounds in one week. Diarrhea continued. Bought stock in Imodium (not

really). Food looked and smelled terrible as did perfumes, after shave,

etc. I would eat a couple of bites of food and that was all I could

tolerate. Water didn't even look good. Dr said to drink Ensure and

cold 7-Up which is what I did. Both are loaded with sugar! All I

wanted to do was stay in my recliner....which is what I did.

 

4) 4th treatment. By this

time I had red dots all over my legs and blisters on the ends of my

fingers. Lost another 5 pounds. The dr prescribed some anti-anxiety

medication for my IV. It helped a bit with nausea but not much. I

could not finish the IV and asked them to take it out with still about 1/4 of

the chemo left in the bag. I felt like I was going down hill very

fast. It was difficult to walk to the elevator of the doctor’s

office, and then down to wait for valet parking. Even though my onc was not at

MD Anderson (just down the street) you could look at people in the lobby

waiting for rides and tell exactly who was on chemo. The fifth day after

treatment I ended up in the emergency room with severe dehydration. Got

up that morning and told dh that I needed to go to the ER, not sure why, just

needed to go. I went to the ER in my pajamas and robe as I didn’t have

the energy to change clothes. They gave me 7-8 bags of fluid that night. ER doc

told my dh that had we waited much longer, I would have been in ICU.

 

After that we decided to discontinue

chemo and look for a good alternative medicine doctor. Dh had started the

search on the Internet, we ordered some books and thus, my true path to healing

began.

 

I say all of this because the more chemo

a person takes the more it wrecks havoc with the digestive tract. The

place where most of the immune system is located, the place where nutrition is

absorbed, utilized and transported. Each week I would feel horrible until

day 7 and then the next day it was back to get more chemo and back to feeling horrible

again. I do not understand how people tolerate years of this stuff!

 

I'm not a vet, but I would imagine that

pets experience much of the same thing. After so much, the

" fight " begins to dwindle. Cody's side effects right now are

from cumulative chemo and from not wanting to eat, not from the oleander.

It took me a good 4 months+ to detox from chemo. Keep giving him food and

keep him as hydrated as possible, very important. He needs you now more than

ever and he is so lucky to have someone like you. You will know this

better than anyone because you “know” your pet, but he made need to

take a bit of a break and just do the silver, water and food. I think I

read where you have decided to discontinue the chemo and to be honest; I think

that is the very best decision.

 

All the best….

 

Be Well

Loretta

 

 

 

 

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In oleander soup , evian793 wrote:

>

>

Can anyone please help and let me know if there are any side effects

of

>

oleander such as refusing food? I need to know as I have Cody on this

now

and

>

he's not acting right.

>

>

Thank you,

>

>

Bonnie & Cody

>

>

PS: I have also upped his CS by a lot.

[Guest guest]

It's a common side effect/after effect of chemo. There's so much

documentation of the destructive impact of chemo that this should be

no mystery.

 

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oleander soup , " May " <luellamay129

wrote:

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> Bonnie,

>

> This is not a side effect of oleander.

>

> Love and Hugs,

>

>

[Guest guest]

Loretta:

Thanks for this input - I'll stick with the oleander with fingers crossed.Duke

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Dr. Loretta Lanphier drlanphier wrote: