Feline Asthma Forums/Message Boards?

[jiazzi]

My cat has recently been diagnosed w/ diabetes and after much research and reading on excellent forums (Feline Diabetes Message Board), Tyler is completely OFF OF INSULIN!  

Now I'm hopeful that there is a cure for his asthma...I've switched him to a wet food only diet when he was diagnosed w/ diabetes 1.5 months ago and took him off of prednisone/medrol immediately thereafter as well.  Interestingly, I never saw an asthma attack during this transition and suspect that he may have had a food allergy causing the asthma.  

He's also switched to a Flovent inhaler w/ the Aerokat diffuser/mask and I've been using it every other day for the past week but wonder if I should just using it on a less frequent basis.  To be perfectly honest, I don't have too much faith in the vets I've gone to for Tyler's diabetes (went to a cat specific vet, then a specialized internist) who both had very bad advice on treating Tyler's diabetes so I highly doubt that I will get solid, specialized info on feline asthma as well.  

Is there a message board for feline asthma?  I tried Google but I'm not coming up with anything.

Thanks!

 

[betsygee]

Somebody else was looking for information on asthma.  Here's the thread, with a link it in to several other threads about felina asthma on The Cat Site.  Perhaps you can find some useful information for Tyler:  http://www.thecatsite.com/t/278405/i-would-like-to-start-a-new-thread-on-feline-asthma

 

[white shadow]

 
Is there a message board for feline asthma?  I tried Google but I'm not coming up with anything.

There is......make that... there are...indeed:

1.   https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/felineasthma/info     (from 1999 - home website http://www.felineasthma.org/)

2.   https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/felineasthma_inhaledmeds/info?showJoinPopup=true

    (from 2002 - perhaps this was original site http://www.fritzthebrave.com/)

(FFR: there are "message boards" for almost all - if not all - chronic feline health conditions/diseases.....I find that the easiest Google search terms are: "disease/condition comma Yahoo Group"....e.g. "feline asthma,yahoo group")

Hope that helps !