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jtapp9@comcast.net
Date: 2004-06-18 20:12:25 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] some medication tips
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <061820042012.19298.40D34CA8000D6D9700004B622200735446C79F9F0E9B06@comcast.net>
Just wanted to mention here, for anybody who cares to hear it....I bought some of those 24 hour Lupron shots...seen them talked about on the FML...and I was VERY PLAINLY TOLD that they were NOT depot shots!
Maybe they are not right for every ferret but they seem to be a good alternative for some people that have not had good luck with the depot shots. For my Wolfie it was too late. By the time I got her and got her started on anything, she passed away a couple of months later...BUT I would like to add that she did get some small patches of hair growth.
Everybody has to make there own decisions based on facts...I was given the truth on the phone about the shots and by email about some results and I made a choice.
JulieT
> if someone is having a compounding pharmacy make up certain categories of meds
> (including chemotherapy agents) and knows that the ferret tolerates that
> specific drug very well did you know that you can save greatly on cost by having
> a large amount made at once if the med itself doesn't prevent that being done?
> Some meds have certain dangers for humans and the equipment used to compound
> them are not allowed to be reused for other preparations, so there is an
> equipment charge added on each time they are made, therefore, for those few
> drugs (but NOT others) making a large amoung of the drug at once can save a nice
> chunk of cash.
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> If yo think that you are dealing with such a drug ask the compounding pharmacist
> if your guess is right so that you can adjust the preparation size accordingly.
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> So, for some meds (like Diazoxide at first buy small for trials, but for other
> meds buy large to cut equipment costs, for most size doesn't matter.
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> Also, some meds are cheapest at your vet (especially ones that are mostly animal
> use preps) whereas some meds commonly used by humans but not as commonly used by
> animals can be cheaper at your local pharmacy.
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> (It doesn't make any sense to save by reducing care or quality of care, but
> there are other ways to save...)
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> There are a lot of medication tips in the Archives
> http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org
> including which pills you can't just cut, storage info, ways to give meds, which
> meds aren't what they seem (like 24 hour Lupron incorrectly sold as being a
> depot) or over the counter meds from stores which weren't what they were
> advertised as being or have been dangerous.
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