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

You will never have regrets until you beat yourself up mentally the rest of your life for trusting this horrible drug when it sickens and kills your dog my baby is gone with lung cancer over this drug there is no doubt in my mind I hope nothing bad ever happens to your baby over this drug I would never use it again not even if it was free .

I have a nine-year-old American bulldog, part boxer, and he was itching himself to death. It was driving me crazy as well. so I got my cousins veterinary to come to my house and he didn’t even look at the dog look at his feet. He said in the chair from a far and said he had podo dermitis and would have to be on apple quill the rest of his life 16 mg a day because he weighed 80 pounds ! yes, they cost me $250 for 16mg pills. So I was wondering why you have to give your dog three of them a day of the same that my dog took? how big is your dog? anyway, it’s been like four years that he’s been on it and now he has domectic podo dermitis which is cause by immune system not working and I feel like he got the Demodex really bad from the weakens immune system from APOQUEL. I also feel little like cysts or bumps around his leg and in his chest which really freaked me out ! after hearing and reading, so many articles about the auto immune, not working after taking up a quote I totally blame it on that !! I started him on it, because his feet were itching and looked terrible and I felt so bad that he had to feel this way but it was a relief in the beginning because the itching was driving him crazy and driving me crazy at the same time because I hate to see my animal hurting and uncomfortable !! it’s been four days since I took them off Apoquel and he was itching like crazy again ! not even any kind of ice gel pack or neosporin or aquaphor would help on his stomach! no, he never ever had anything that bothered his stomach and recently he’s been scratching like crazy !! I’m taking him to the vet this week as I’m retired and I don’t have that much money and all my money so far so far that I have had extra has gone for any kind of cream any kind of benadryl to help soothe him.
since he has Demadex now, and never had it before I feel like the immune situation has made it out of control as I have read in many articles. did Demadex has multiplied because of no immune system. i’m really pretty mad that the vet recommended this for my dog.
now, another thing is that somebody told me that chewable Bravecto cures demodex the best. He also has an abundance of yeast which is another immune problem. right now I’m only going to shampoo him until I see the vet. I washed him today when I got home with some Shampoo for mites and ( i wish i could add pictures ) this was not a benzyl peroxide shampoo. It was a different medicated shampoo, but it worked for today. I’m getting the benzyl peroxide shampoo until I see the veterinarian. after the shampoo, he did not lick his feet, but he was still scratching his stomach, but so far stopped. He’s 9 years old now and I don’t intend on losing him !! after Frankie started getting the demodex mites really bad on his paws where he even his toes are swollen, red and partial hair loss on them !! ????????I have seen some hotspots on the body, but I’ve taken care of those. This drug Apoquel for me has turned out to be SO BAD ! The hotspots was really had me checking out everything about Apoquel because he’s never had that before and he got some on different parts of his body and it worried me ! they were a little tough hair and if you remove the hair, there’s a circle like a quarter that’s bright red ! I had never ever seen that before, so I cleaned it off with povidone iodine on it to clean and then put neosporin and kept checking it!! when he got a few of these I really started to wonder. now the backs of his front legs have some thing on it and I don’t know what it is. I don’t know if it’s eczema. I don’t know if it’s psoriasis I don’t know what it is. I kind of understand your use of it for your dog because it’s so annoying rattling. Disturbing to have your dog be itching but you don’t know what it’s doing to your dog internally.
I don’t know about anybody else in this world but if you yourself had an itch or had a problem you would take care of it there’s so many people out there that just say oh he’s OK but they don’t have that itch and it’s very annoying and painful !! thank you for letting me speak out. Damn these drug companies that put out drugs that can do this horrible immune problem to humans & dogs for $$$ !! (Thank you for this article!)
Ms. Maria D.H.

Same here in The Netherlands with our American Bully Named King ( almost 7 years)
Allergic for many things.
Different foods, pollen, Even grass.

From eight months till now almost 7 years he gets apoquel daily. In winter he gets 1,5 a day...at summertime max. 3 a day.
His quality of live improved a lot ... So maybe the conclusion is...Better live shorter without itch and infections then live longer with it.

We do not regret it at all to use apoquel and made his last 6 years a better live. And even If he dies of cancer next year....
We love our King, and will not let him suffer.

I hope you’re right but my poor sweet little Westie took it for 6 yrs w/no problem then started throwing up and not being able to eat. Now she is starving and can’t eat anymore. There are alternatives that are not drugs. I felt like you do,
now. . .all I have is regrets and anger at big pharma.