Thursday, Sep 14, 2017

We finally received the supplements ordered from Amazon: 1 box of K9 Immunity and another of Apocaps.

K9 Immunity is made from all sorts of mushrooms which can be beneficial for humans and , why not, for dogs as well. We will start giving them to Sparky tomorrow together with the prednisone, furosemide and omega 3.

Apocaps had turmeric and cucurmin in its composition so it could be useful as well. But a careful reading of its pamphlet found that it is not recommended to combine Apocaps with steroid medications like prednisone. Was I glad that I read the instructions fully! This was unexpected and so awful. I had lots of hope in it being able to complement prednisone and help Sparky in one way or another. It looked as if we could not use Apocaps for now but we could at least keep it for future  when prednisone would be ineffective.

So, no Apocaps for now but we could give K9 Immunity a try.

Both of them had mixed reviews on Amazon.com with some people writing negative reviews after not seeing any improvements in their dogs. Others were very satisfied with the results even if no one was sure if their dogs improvements came from these pills or something else.

To be honest, turmeric, cucurmin and mushrooms are no cure for cancer. They can help as part of the diet cancer but how much is very difficult to say. Apocaps, for example, is nothing more than a supplement created by a vet to help his patients figure out the exact percentages of ingredients that should be added to their dogs diets. It is not a medicine, just a supplement.

Prednisone and the chemotherapy are medicine.

Prednisone is a solution for now, a way of buying more time with the dog and with the worst side effects. Chemotherapy is as horrible as prednisone, maybe even worse but at least can have some serious impact on the cancer.

But since Sparky only had a few weeks of life left (2 weeks passed already, I wondered how many were left), chemotherapy was out of the picture and prednisone the only medicine for him. Until today. Tomorrow, we will add one pill of K9 immunity and, if Sparky tolerates it well, we will increase to 2 pills per day very soon.