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well, as many of you know, my poor sam rottie who just turned 7 years old christmas day is ridden with allergic reactions.
His littermate brother is perfectly fine.
Sam is on seizure pills, phenobarbital 4 pills a day and Apoquel at first 2x a day.. now at 1 per day.
the apoquel worked fine for awhile but just before xmas he went back to the vet for more skin outbreak issues. finishing up a round of antibiotics, clindamycin 4 pills a day bcz of his size.. 146 lbs... and mupirocin ointment.
I am surprised even on Apoquel he still had an outbreak on his skin on his neck this time.
He is bathed with hylyt shampoo. the vet said an allergy test would likely result in false positives.
My friends dog showed allergic to palm trees... geez we live in Florida.
I just ordered another bottle of Apoquel, chewy pharmacy was kind to match my last bottle price of $150.
now I see the pills are up in price again now to $2.29 per pill ! YIKES ..and I am on the fence if it is working for him anymore. Besides being worried of the side effects I am reading about that it can even cause skin issues and i really do not want to load his immune system with 2 pills a day.
he cannot take benadryl .... had an allergic neurologic muscular awful reaction, he is allergic to Cephalaxin antibiotics, face blew up like the elephant man ..
I am curious if anyone has taken their dog off Apoquel and switched to something else ?
open to suggestions for my million dollar baby
His littermate brother is perfectly fine.
Sam is on seizure pills, phenobarbital 4 pills a day and Apoquel at first 2x a day.. now at 1 per day.
the apoquel worked fine for awhile but just before xmas he went back to the vet for more skin outbreak issues. finishing up a round of antibiotics, clindamycin 4 pills a day bcz of his size.. 146 lbs... and mupirocin ointment.
I am surprised even on Apoquel he still had an outbreak on his skin on his neck this time.
He is bathed with hylyt shampoo. the vet said an allergy test would likely result in false positives.
My friends dog showed allergic to palm trees... geez we live in Florida.
I just ordered another bottle of Apoquel, chewy pharmacy was kind to match my last bottle price of $150.
now I see the pills are up in price again now to $2.29 per pill ! YIKES ..and I am on the fence if it is working for him anymore. Besides being worried of the side effects I am reading about that it can even cause skin issues and i really do not want to load his immune system with 2 pills a day.
he cannot take benadryl .... had an allergic neurologic muscular awful reaction, he is allergic to Cephalaxin antibiotics, face blew up like the elephant man ..
I am curious if anyone has taken their dog off Apoquel and switched to something else ?
open to suggestions for my million dollar baby