Lewis Cole
My long haired Dachshund mix has both food allergies (rice, corn, white potatoes, ham, duck, and milk) as well as environmental allergies (fescue, every tree pollen on the test, and bacterial hypersensitivity to some sort of bacteria) and apoquel works on just about all of them.
Obviously, I avoid giving her any foods with allergens that I know of, but I can't do anything about the bacteria and so she still has outbreaks that are more hive-like rather than hotspot-like, but they are much fewer.
(When she does have an outbreak, then an anti-histamine helps make her itching bearable.
And no, the anti-histamine wasn't able to help relieve her itching anywhere near as well as apoquel when it was the only thing I could give her.)
So, in my experience (which obviously may not be what you'll encounter if you try it on your pet), apoquel is everything that it was claimed to be.
The only side effect that I *THINK* might be attributable to apoquel is that my dog seems more prone to barking which *MAY* mean that she suffers from one of the side effects noted for apoquel, namely increased aggression.
Compared to how much she used to itch, this side effect (if it is one) is so trivial as to be insignificant.
And no, I don't work for the maker of apoquel, nor to I get any money or any other reward to write this.
I'm sorry for all of those whose pets have had bad experiences with apoquel, but they aren't mine and I'm glad that my dog is on it as nothing else I tried even came close to giving her any relief.
Certainly *ALL* of the holistic "remedies" I tried had *ZERO* beneficial effect.