Hello all,
Longtime lurker here....my 13 and a half year old female doberman was diagnosed last spring with DCM. Outwardly, she is doing fine.
She's a three plus year survivor of mammary cancer and also survived a hard leg tumor, so she is a veteran of difficult circumstances.
My question is the vet along with the cardio specialist have her on Amiodarone benazepril and pimobendan. At the end of spring she was only on pimo, then added benazepril and most recently Amiodarone. What concerns me is that I read very little about any dobermans using Amiodarone. This also is an older drug. In addition I located one study which indicated a nearly fifty percent rate of drug intolerance in dobermans for this. She tried the Mexitecheline (sp) but didn't like it.
I should add that after being on Amiodarone for about a month she has had little side effects other than some weird stools. She however at a vet visit recently did not seem to have her heart arrhythmias under control .... we are going to do a holter in the next couple of weeks.
I have met the cardiologist and was very, very impressed. However it seems like perhaps I should find one that would do more to find the right cocktail to treat her dcm? Perhaps a doberman specialist?
Sorry about the long thread.
Longtime lurker here....my 13 and a half year old female doberman was diagnosed last spring with DCM. Outwardly, she is doing fine.
She's a three plus year survivor of mammary cancer and also survived a hard leg tumor, so she is a veteran of difficult circumstances.
My question is the vet along with the cardio specialist have her on Amiodarone benazepril and pimobendan. At the end of spring she was only on pimo, then added benazepril and most recently Amiodarone. What concerns me is that I read very little about any dobermans using Amiodarone. This also is an older drug. In addition I located one study which indicated a nearly fifty percent rate of drug intolerance in dobermans for this. She tried the Mexitecheline (sp) but didn't like it.
I should add that after being on Amiodarone for about a month she has had little side effects other than some weird stools. She however at a vet visit recently did not seem to have her heart arrhythmias under control .... we are going to do a holter in the next couple of weeks.
I have met the cardiologist and was very, very impressed. However it seems like perhaps I should find one that would do more to find the right cocktail to treat her dcm? Perhaps a doberman specialist?
Sorry about the long thread.