Audrey Hepbull
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- Apr 23, 2012
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- Audrey Hepbull
Good News:
Took Audrey to the vet today for a skin scraping to see how her treatment for demodectic mange is going. She has been on oral ivermectin once a day for 6 long months. Today, much to my suprise (and the vet's) her scrape showed not a SINGLE demodex mite! I was so happy! She can now stop the ivermectin. It was such a struggle to get it in her because it made her foam at the mouth and she HATED it. Poor baby.
Bad News:
As I mentioned in my update post on Audrey, she now has ringworm. Unfourtunately I managed to get it and I spread it to her. Because she still has a weak immune system, it flared out of control, and she has it ALL over her body. I had been treating her with an over the counter 2% Miconazole spray for about a week now. I expected the vet to prescribe us a topical ketoconazole cream (a little stronger then the miconazole) to treat the ringworm, but the vet said because her ringworm is so severe, we need to do an oral pill once daily in addition to using a chlorahexadine shampoo 3 times weekly and continuing the miconazole spray. The oral med the vet want's Audrey to take is a human medication. It is called:
Griseofulvan Ultra Microsize 125mg once a day for 4 weeks.
She wrote us a script for the medicine and we drove to our local pharmacy to pick it up. Problem. It was $180 for only 28 pills!!!! And she will need to get a refill for next month. My fiance' and I simply cannot afford to pay that much money for 28 pills.
I begged the vet for the ketaconazole cream but she said due to Audrey's condition the ONLY way to treat the ringworm is going to have to be with this oral pill. She recommended I check an online (human) pharmacy to see if I can get it cheaper there. I have tried to find a reputable human pharmacy online but can't seem to find one. I just can't afford $360 for two month's worth of pills. Audrey is due for a cherry eye repair surgery and that alone will cost (what I think is pretty reasonable for surgery....$450). I just can't pay only $90 less for PILLS!
I need help. If anyone can help me find the Griseofulvan Ultra Microsize pills (not just griseofulvan, but griseofulvan ultra microsize) online in either 125mg or 250mg tablets for less then $100 for 28 tablets I would be forever indebted to you. I have looked all night and I can't find anything. I am so upset. We've come all this way with her mange only for all her hair to start falling out again due to the stupid ringworm.
Took Audrey to the vet today for a skin scraping to see how her treatment for demodectic mange is going. She has been on oral ivermectin once a day for 6 long months. Today, much to my suprise (and the vet's) her scrape showed not a SINGLE demodex mite! I was so happy! She can now stop the ivermectin. It was such a struggle to get it in her because it made her foam at the mouth and she HATED it. Poor baby.
Bad News:
As I mentioned in my update post on Audrey, she now has ringworm. Unfourtunately I managed to get it and I spread it to her. Because she still has a weak immune system, it flared out of control, and she has it ALL over her body. I had been treating her with an over the counter 2% Miconazole spray for about a week now. I expected the vet to prescribe us a topical ketoconazole cream (a little stronger then the miconazole) to treat the ringworm, but the vet said because her ringworm is so severe, we need to do an oral pill once daily in addition to using a chlorahexadine shampoo 3 times weekly and continuing the miconazole spray. The oral med the vet want's Audrey to take is a human medication. It is called:
Griseofulvan Ultra Microsize 125mg once a day for 4 weeks.
She wrote us a script for the medicine and we drove to our local pharmacy to pick it up. Problem. It was $180 for only 28 pills!!!! And she will need to get a refill for next month. My fiance' and I simply cannot afford to pay that much money for 28 pills.
I begged the vet for the ketaconazole cream but she said due to Audrey's condition the ONLY way to treat the ringworm is going to have to be with this oral pill. She recommended I check an online (human) pharmacy to see if I can get it cheaper there. I have tried to find a reputable human pharmacy online but can't seem to find one. I just can't afford $360 for two month's worth of pills. Audrey is due for a cherry eye repair surgery and that alone will cost (what I think is pretty reasonable for surgery....$450). I just can't pay only $90 less for PILLS!I need help. If anyone can help me find the Griseofulvan Ultra Microsize pills (not just griseofulvan, but griseofulvan ultra microsize) online in either 125mg or 250mg tablets for less then $100 for 28 tablets I would be forever indebted to you. I have looked all night and I can't find anything. I am so upset. We've come all this way with her mange only for all her hair to start falling out again due to the stupid ringworm.
