"Cancel scripts": a new model of veterinary practice
Cancel culture and Big Pharma: Why not combine them?
I saw a new patient today. I have been seeing quite a few lately. My 23 year old house-call practice is transforming with the times, along with everything else in the world. As patients die, clients move, the population migrates and the profession changes, so does my practice.
I have seen quite a few new patients lately, and a distinct pattern is showing up with nearly all of them. As I go through the history with the client, I find myself having to call for the DISCONTINUATION of various prescription items being given to the dog - usually the dog, vs. the cat. Cat owners tend to go to their veterinarian less frequently than dog owners.
Cancel culture has come to my practice, or rather “cancel the prescription”.
The case I saw today is a good example. A 12 year old Yorkie who has arthritis in the back and knees and has recently become more aggressive. I quickly discovered a list of items that I told the client we needed to discontinue and find alternatives for:
Simparica: a flea/tick preventative of the isoxazoline class:
This class of parasiticides has a warning on the box itself regarding its propensity to cause neurological issues - tremors, ataxia, seizures - in dogs even if they have never had any of these issues before. I have seen enough of these cases to know how difficult they are to treat and how difficult the seizures can be to control.
Here is the FDA Fact Sheet where you can read all about it.
Other preventatives of this class include: Bravecto, Nexgard.
The patient had been given both Bravecto and simparica.
Librela: a once a month injection for arthritis, being marketed as safe, without side effects.
Librela is a new category of products, a genetically engineered monoclonal antibody, classified as a BIOLOGIC, the same classification as vaccinations. You can find all the information you need on my other posts, just scan through my feed. HERE is a good place to start: LIBRELA
It is far from being “without side effects”.
This patient had received 6 monthly injections in France, and 3 more here in the states. One of the effects clients are reporting in dogs who have received Librela are behavioral changes, including personality and aggression.
Cytopoint: another monoclonal antibody product used to control allergies.
This is a monoclonal antibody designed to bind to a very specific antibody to control itching.
This patient received Cytopoint concurrently with Librela. On one occasion, she received both injections on the same day.
As stated in the package insert of Librela, they have no idea how 2 monoclonal antibody products will interact within the body:
“The safe use of this product with other monoclonal antibodies has not been evaluated.”
If you have any doubts about the adverse effects of monoclonal antibodies, one just has to scan the human literature. Immune- and Non-Immune-Mediated Adverse Effects of Monoclonal Antibody Therapy: A Survey of 110 Approved Antibodies
An hour later, after educating the client on the above products, I did not even get to the needless vaccinations the patient had received, including canine influenza and Lyme. Once again, it is stated in the Librela package insert:
“Evaluations were not made to determine if interactions occurred between LIBRELA and veterinary vaccines.”
The one area that I always address is nutrition, and luckily, the dog was fed a pretty good diet. She was feeding a freeze-dried raw food formulated without synthetic vitamins and minerals, adding additional organ meat and muscle meat as a topper. This was one thing the dog had going for it, and one big reason she was still doing as well as she was.
Many patients I see are also eating highly processed foods filled with waste products from the Big Ag food production system, aka meat meals, wheat, corn, soy, hydrolyzed chicken feathers, sucrose, gluten meals and synthetic vitamins and minerals containing heavy metals, along with pesticide and aflatoxin residues. Yum!
They dont have a chance.
The next time you are prescribed a preventative or medication, or when a new product is recommended for your dog or cat, go home and do some research. Ask for a second opinion.
I wish I could say that the effects of these products were reversible, however many of them are not reversible and many may be fatal. It is far better to error on the side of caution. And there are always alternative treatments available!
My God! The vets prescribing those pesticides for their beloved pets should be tarred and feathered. Injections, pharmaceuticals that cause blindness, monthly toxic chemicals with warnings that if you get it on your hands, wash them immediately. So sad that people have lost their reasoning abilities, their critical thinking and turn themselves, their children and their pets over to big pharma brainwashed so-called doctors. Heartbreaking!💔
Biological bodies are made of earth & air & water & sunshine. Synthetic chemicals mix with the body's chemistry about as well as a mud puddle looks after adding a couple of drops of motor oil to it.
I had a cat, vaxxed each year for many years, started having seizures. She had never been given any medicines -- other than vaccines (not even flea drops). I researched what allopathic vets gave cats for the condition and was appalled. I tried CBD oil in Salmon oil and her seizures stopped immediately. At one point, she hid away from me and missed her daily dose of .02 ml. At the 36 hour mark without CBD she had a massive seizure. Put her back on the CBD and she did not have another seizure for the rest of her life. But whatever had been causing the seizures was not addressed or cured by the CBD. She died a slow, terrible death eventually. Became very stiff -- like rigor mortis whilst still alive.
And then there was my Jack Russell -- after about the age of 12 or so, she found it harder to walk up the stairs or jump onto the bed. I started her on .02ml of CBD oil in Salmon oil, and she could go up the stairs like a youngster. I stopped giving it to her for a couple of days, and she couldn't get up the stairs. Started her back on it and she could get up the stairs again. Eventually she got too old to get up the stairs...she lived until age 17...she died 17 June of this year...I got so devastated that I became horribly ill with 36 hours of nonstop nausea...She was as good as gold...never a bad girl in her life...never sick...always loyal & loving & concerned...She was a far better dog than I am a man.
I don't euthanize my pets because I am not God and do not want to pretend I am. I will euthanize myself in less than 4 years if I'm not killed first, no problem, but not my pets.