Posted by sb417 on February 20, 2004, at 23:19:23
In reply to Meds to increase appetite w/o sedation?, posted by utopizen on February 20, 2004, at 18:40:33
Utopizen,
Unfortunately, this won't be of much help to you, but I thought you might be interested to know that several years ago, my cat's veterinarian was trying to increase my cat's appetite. My cat had a terminal illness, but was not yet at the stage where she should have been put to sleep. First the vet gave my cat some anabolic steroids to increase her appetite. When that didn't work, he gave her intravenous valium, and it worked immediately. Oral Valium has no such effect, but the intravenous Valium caused my cat to become ravenous within a minute or so of injection. In fact, we set up a food dish right next to where she sat on the examination table so she could begin eating as soon as the Valium kicked in.
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