Been dealing with a food/environmental allergy for over a year!

[paisleypants]

Just an update...

I gave Paisley her first dose of Atopica tonight and will be seeing the derm. vet on Nov. 9th. Hopefully, this will help!

I finally had to wrangle her into a dog shirt because she kept scratching/licking her back. 

Meg

 

[paisleypants]

Another update...

Paisley started on Atopica/Cyclosporine  on Halloween. So far, so good - no side effects and her scratching hasn't gotten worse. 

We went to the dermatology vet on Nov. 9th and it turned out the lesions on her back were not infected. 

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• paisleypants
• Nov 12, 2012

Meg

 

[gooned]

One of my cats was 'digging' on herself and constantly pulled her hair out. Eventually, she had only a Mohawk cut of hair on her back that she could not reach. The vet tried all sorts of things (shots, diets, etc) and eventually found the solution. A daily Chlortab - the antihistamine people take for allergies. It worked but the cat slept most of the time. After a few years, I decided to stop the Chlortab and the 'digging' did not return. I don't know if she 'grew out of it' or the antihistamine built up in her system but I am grateful.