No improvements to talk about. This dog can be a little hard to read. Shes lazy,so sleeping all day really isnt out of the norm for her. Shes never sucked a water bowl dry.its actually kinda rare to see or hear her drinking. But food is a different story. She will pass up dog food but she has never passed up any human foods. The vet told me when she starts sleeping all the time,stops eating or drinking,the end is near.
She did finally eat yesterday. On mondays,my wife brings her home some meatballs and other trimmings from work. So when my wife came home,she was expecting meatballs (she knows when meatball day is). My wife said she was jumping and hopping around waiting for meat balls. She told her there werent any and she snorted at my wife and ran in the room and ate the food i gave her.
The bad breath seems to be a come and go thing. It hasnt been the rancid make you want to puke smell. More of a lingering fart smell.you kinda gotta be right next to her to smell it.the rancid smell could be smelled across the room.
The drooling and licking isnt as bad as it was
FOR THE WHACKOS WHO FEEL THEY NEED TO MESSAGE ME SAYING IM POISONING AND KILLING MY DOG. i discussed this with my vet. It is safe. I can double what im giving her if i want too. The vet gave me the fenben.if it wasnt safe,i doubt he woulda gave me the stuff and id doubt you could walk into tractor supply and buy it off the shelf without a prescription. Dont waste your time messaging me,im just gonna block and ignore you.
Someone mentioned recently that we should take pig ivm over horse IVM if we aren’t taking the human ivm, you happen to know anything about that?
As far as the “you’re killing your dog!” just remember there are trolls and fedbois on here too, and they both relish misery. Just do more research if you doubt (but you’re probably on the best path).
I dont know anything about the different forms of ivermectin. But im sure somebody here does.
I dont give a shit what the trolls got to say. I done a lot of reading on the subject before i asked my vet about it. Wich is why i started it late. If i had started a month or so ago when the face lump just started,we might have different results right now. All i can do right now is sit here and worry and wait to see what happens.
Wishing you and your doggo the best!
Been taking Ivermectin since COVID started, the horse paste for my wife and I. This stuff is miraculous. The FIRST time you take it (we've been on it for ~3 yrs) your tummy may feel like you may have to go to the bathroom about 20 minutes after taking it. That goes away after about 10 minutes. When you use the bathroom, clean up and don't look - you cannot unsee some things. Every creature on the planet gets parasites, dogs, cats, birds, fish - and for some reason humans are never given anti-parasitic drugs. Odds are ~100% you have them too. After a dose, you won't. A tube of horse paste (1.67% Ivermectin treats 1,200 lbs and costs ~$10. Get the stuff that is ONLY Ivermectin. The amount you take is about the same as the amount you put on a toothbrush. It's not horrible tasting. One dose every 2-3 weeks is all it takes. Strong recommend.
My understanding is that all of it is the same molecule. I could be wrong, but at one point I did a pretty deep dive on all of this.
And as is discussed in this thread, it seems to me it is pretty darned difficult to OD on ivermectin, and possibly "impossible".
What the medicaltrollwizards will point to as 'It made them very seriously ill" is called Herxheimer effect. The die off and the toxins released because the drug is actually working. That can be managed by correct initial dosing if a 1st time
Yes the evacuation/die off is pretty dramatic.