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Some of the 'lucky' ones, even with after effects
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Black Velvet's Webpage
Velvet received
her six month heartworm injection in March of
'03. It was about 10 days later she got sick,
vomiting, diaherra, wouldn't eat and sluggish.
This went on for almost two weeks, we babied
her. Then she started improving. But as she
started improving, she started breaking out
in hives. Some kind of allergic reaction. She
had 5 seizures in 6 months.
Six months later......
she still breaks out due to perservatives in
some dog foods and treats. She had another small
seizure 8 months post injection.
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I definitely
do not recommend the PH6 shot. I believe that
Zeus had a different adverse reaction to this
drug than most of the other dogs I read about.
I believe Zeus had a reaction that was restricted
to where the injection was given (locally) and
where the PH6 traveled after injection (down
to his chest and right front leg). Zeus was
on an antibiotic at the time for lyme disease
prevention and that this could be a possible
reaction of the two drugs. Also, I would like
to state that after 15 or so phone calls, the
Fort Dodge people successfully avoided payment
on any of Zeus' care. .
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I am tired of worrying
that I may lose Kaycee and/or
Honey,
the way I lost my dear Hunter
to that ProHeart 6 shot.
Sandra
Slayton
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Kaycee on top lost
her littermate Hunter to PH6. She has had to have
both knees operated on. Despite all of that she is
just so sweet and loving, we are just keeping our
fingers crossed till her six months is up in February
'04.
Honey, is a Golden
that we adopted December 2002 and was thought to be
a year old at the time. A month after we got her we
found she had heart worms and she had to go thru that
awful treatment and weeks of being caged.
Then Honey was cleared,
determined to be in great health and is as active
as she can be. HOWEVER we are waiting out 4 months
til her second AND LAST ProHeart 6 shot
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Casey lost his playmates
Tasha and Niki to Proheart 6.
Casey's on two different thyroid medications,
one to keep it from getting worse,
and one to boost it. He had the shot on June
17, 2002,
so it's has been a year since he's been off
the shot.
By all outward appearances,
he seems to be just fine. However,
for such a young dog (three years old),
after long walks, it seems to take him
a day or two for him to recover.
jbrudd@earthlink.net
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Rocky's
Home Page
We wanted to let everyone know
of a great travesty that happened to our family.
Anyone that knows us,know we have 2 dogs in
our family and at one time we had three. We
love our pets and they mean the world to us!
April
and
Jeanne
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Mia is a 7 year old cocker spaniel.
She is my angel and my constant companion.
I have had her since she was 5-6 weeks old
and she has been very healthy and active.
I have had Mia on heartworm prevention
pills for years without problems.
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It was this year that
my vet began to promote Proheart as a better way of
heartworm prevention. Mia recieved 2 injections six
months apart and 3 months after the second injection
she became gravely ill with what my vet referred to
as "auto-immune hemolytic anemia". She was
weak, had trouble breathing, her gums and eyes were
pale and jaundiced. She had blood in her urine and
stool and had a hematocrit of 10. I questioned my
vet on day one if it could be the Proheart and my
vet didn't think so. She endured multiple tests and
blood transfusions and a week later she was well enough
to come home on multiple medicines. The vet was puzzled
that her coombs test came back negative so he didn't
know why she became so ill. I began to research Proheart
on the internet and I believe now that Proheart almost
killed my dog as it has many others. My Mia just happened
to be lucky enough to survive. I will never use Proheart
again on my pets and I encourage others to not use
it also. I am thankful that I know now how to prevent
this from happening to her again. I would never get
over her death if it was because of an injection I
made her get. Today she is happy and healthy and Proheart
free!
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