Replies on Apoquel : Dog Drug With a Dark Side - Homeopath Vet

I am so sorry for your loss
I too just lost my German shepherd who turned 7 on June 23rd 2023 and died July 1 2023
I am devastated same cancer same drug.
Apoquell should not have been used I thought her itching was bad enough but all the secondary infections she suffered through before her final demise was pure hell for her and myself. She was only on apoquell a few months when I noticed changes in her and actually did my own research on the drug. Yeah my vet said works great no mention of side effects cancers etc. I took her off it told the vet suppresses the immune system? Told oh no I'm wrong . So did the cytopoint shot and all he'll broke loose fungal infection, bacterial infection. She was only off the apoquell for about 4 days before the shot and they still insisted I should be using both. The itching was from all the infections at that point not allgeries!
2 weeks of antibiotics baths and 5 days later she crashed! Emergency vet clinic , then sent to university vet hospital to find out one or more of the cancer masses had ruptured she had blood in her abdomen. There was no hope that hemangoscarcoma is fast growing it was on her spleen, liver and one lung.
Told common in breeds like german shepherds, golden retrievers, and pitbulls!
Maybe the cancer was there but using apoquell let the cancer run rampant!
Wish a professional t9ld me this but no still insist it does not suppress the immune sytstem!
My girl was still a trooper and lifted her head and her eyes told me she was ready to go, mamma had to make the call.
From a healthy high energy dog to this bad outcome 7yrs is not old!
Every vet should make clients well informed of this drug and possible outcomes, cancers etc!

Apoquel killed my beautiful Belgian x border collie.
From healthy to liver cancer within months.

I’ll never forgive myself for giving her this poison and if I hadn’t become disabled I Would have given her the salt baths that cleared her skin within 24 hours.
I’ll go to my grave riddled with guilt , hating the vet who misdiagnosed her and for giving my precious girl Apoquel. Please try salt baths !

My 10-year-old beagle started at the quill in October 2021. She would lick her paws constantly and the vet thought she had some type of allergy to something in the yard. I didn’t think anything of it and put her on this expensive medication but it immediately stopped the itching. By the beginning of January she had developed a large tumor on her leg and started limping. Pathology on it indicated it was benign. The vet removed it with an extensive surgery that included skin grafts and over 100 sutures along with three times weekly surgical wrapping at the vet. That also removed for tiny tumors right below the benign one that same day. That came back from pathology as sarcoma. Within two weeks she was covered and two weeks later she died. She was perfectly healthy even at Christmas. I have videos of her running and chasing my Doberman and opening Christmas presents. She went downhill very fast. I am now convinced it was the Apoquel.