{"id":2659,"date":"2005-02-08T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T21:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2005\/02\/08\/abbye-update-2\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T18:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:44:20","slug":"abbye-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/02\/08\/abbye-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbye Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abbye is getting decidely annoyed with these frequent visits to the vet&#8217;s office. She objects, in particular, to the highly personal methods used to check her temperature&#8230;which, by the way, show that she&#8217;s still running a lowgrade fever.<\/p>\n<p>However, things are looking up. The medicine got her nausea under control, so she can eat and drink again. She now begins a protocol of antibiotics and Vitamin E to get the apparent bacterial infection under control and bring her liver enzymes back into the normal range.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, we may have identified the culprit that&#8217;s caused the liver spike: the every-other-day dose of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rimadyl.com\/\">Rimadyl<\/a> she gets to control pain from arthritis. The vet said that 10-15% of the dogs who take Rimadyl end up having to leave it due to stomach and\/or liver problems. The only odd thing about this is that Abbye is normally not part of such a <i>large<\/i> minority. It&#8217;s usually something along the lines of, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen <i>any<\/i> dog react in that way to this medicine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we want the liver problems fixed, but if it is the Rimadyl, we&#8217;re then faced with a different but just as vexing problem: pain control. I guess we&#8217;ll cross that bridge when we come to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your dog taking Rimadyl for arthritis pain? Ours is, and it may be causing some unpleasant side effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbye","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10295,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/10295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}