I am up to my eye balls at the minute with 2 sick guineas. Stressed is an undersatement. Fudge, my 6.5 year old heart disease and possible renal failure girl, was attending a local vets. When i wasnt getting answers i travelled further afield to see a more specialist vet. He put fudge on fortekor and frusemide. The fortekor was made up into a solution, of two 2.5mg tabs in 5ml water, which is 1mg/ml.the dosage was 0.5ml once daily so she is on 0.5mg daily.
From research, i thought this was a low dose.
The vet works a tuesday at one practice and a wednesday at another. I contacted him last night to tell him Fudge had responded well, more active and popcorning as days went on, but by sunday her activity slowly started to decline. He advised i increase the dose to 0.75ml, which would be 0.75mg a day.
He then asked me what dose i had be given as he didnt have the file infront of him, and when i told him the solution was 5ml, he said it would have been one 2.5mg tablet in it. And if it was 2 tabs, it would be 10ml. So either hes given me a double dose , or the labels wrong, or he got confused last night. I have contacted the vet and ofcourse he isnt in today! I need more of the meds but cant call my own vets for a prescription as basically i dont know what shes to get!
It sounds like he intended for her to have 0.5ml of a 0.5mg/ml solution, which is only 0.25mg a day. Can anyone conform if this is too low? Instead shes had 0.5mg a day up until last night where she had 0.75mg.
Her breathings worse this morning but thats more due to the reducing of her frusemide- he advised me to give 2mg 12 hourly but it wasnt enough- i've been giving her 2mg 8 hourly which had it under control. I put it back to 12 hourly last night as advised, but it isnt enough.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, i really am at my wits end as i've felt like both my girls dont get taken seriously wherever they go.
From research, i thought this was a low dose.
The vet works a tuesday at one practice and a wednesday at another. I contacted him last night to tell him Fudge had responded well, more active and popcorning as days went on, but by sunday her activity slowly started to decline. He advised i increase the dose to 0.75ml, which would be 0.75mg a day.
He then asked me what dose i had be given as he didnt have the file infront of him, and when i told him the solution was 5ml, he said it would have been one 2.5mg tablet in it. And if it was 2 tabs, it would be 10ml. So either hes given me a double dose , or the labels wrong, or he got confused last night. I have contacted the vet and ofcourse he isnt in today! I need more of the meds but cant call my own vets for a prescription as basically i dont know what shes to get!
It sounds like he intended for her to have 0.5ml of a 0.5mg/ml solution, which is only 0.25mg a day. Can anyone conform if this is too low? Instead shes had 0.5mg a day up until last night where she had 0.75mg.
Her breathings worse this morning but thats more due to the reducing of her frusemide- he advised me to give 2mg 12 hourly but it wasnt enough- i've been giving her 2mg 8 hourly which had it under control. I put it back to 12 hourly last night as advised, but it isnt enough.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, i really am at my wits end as i've felt like both my girls dont get taken seriously wherever they go.
