Sukie wrote: "You just said it a lot better than I did, MIke!"
 
Yes, thank you Mike.  Sukie didn't address this at all, she just went on
and on about privacy and her morals.
 
Mike, I now have additional questions to ask if you don't mind. :-)  I'll
start out with my experiences first.  It's not uncommon for Lupron Depot
to stop working, just as the 24 hour Lupron stops working.  (Whether it
stops being effective after 24 hours or 1 month isn't important...for
*this* question..., it's just a fact that BOTH will stop working after
some time period.) Using the Depot: when that happens it is common for my
vet to double the dose.  This usually then kicks in and we continue the
higher dose for many additional months.
 
With that background, the question that comes to my mind is; what would
have caused an immediate jump to surgery when the 24 hour Lupron stopped
working?  Why wasn't there....or was there, an attempt to increase the
dose or change to the depot?
 
I am NOT asking you to divulge any private information, but perhaps you
could ask the person who contacted you, or perhaps you already have the
answer to that.  I am continuing to have a difficult time blaming any
deaths, directly or *indirectly*, on the 24 hour lupron.  (My primary
vet only prescribes the depot, but in discussions with her she asks
these same questions.) Not knowing all of the facts.....and using your
stated reasoning (or my understanding of what you said); it seems to me
as though the deaths were caused by the decision/recommendation of a
*veterinarian* to perform the three surgeries when s/he might just as
well have recommended increasing the lupron dose or changing the type
of lupron being used.
 
Thanks Mike,
Sandi
 
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[Posted in FML issue 4566]