TINA FROUD
Ellen,
My Yorkshire Terrier had Cushings disease. He was shaking his head a lot and his right ear looked a bit read.
I took him to my vets thinking he had an ear infection.
The vet said it looked like an allergy and gave him a Cytopoint injection for the allergy.
He was OK for 2/3 days then, he slept a lot and went into very deep sleeps. He started to drink more.
He was still eating well for two weeks.Doing zoomies and enjoying his walks but he seemed so tired and just got worse.
He ended up not eating, walking, playing, doing zoomies and lost half of his body weight.
The days before he died, he just wanted to go in the garden and hide/sleep under a hedge.
The night before he died was the worst day of my life and his.
He bleed from his bowels and vomited and started having terrible spasms, was very restless and then lost the will to live and laid on a thick rug breathing deep from his stomach.
I took him to the vets to be put to sleep but he died in my arms before the vet came into the room.
I feel its my fault, as I never even thought to ask questions at the time about any reactions to cytopoint and the vet certainly did not say anything to the contrary.
Some dogs can have 2/3 injections and then become very ill, according to reports on other sites.
The injection was given on 18th August 2023 and George died on 18th September 2023, he was 9 1/2 years old.
The vet practice said they had, had dogs with cushings disease who had the cytopoint injection and were OK!
They would also let the makers of Cytopoint know about George's problems with it. I'm not altogether sure that they have done so?
I have just found this site on the Internet and felt I must let you know about what happened to my dog and have since found other sites, where some dogs have been affected and died a terrible death.
Kind regards,
Tina Froud
Lincolnshire
United Kingdom