Thank you all so much!
Most natural joint supplements can take 1-2 months before you see actual benefits.
Thank you Dee! The brand I am using states it can take a two to three months to see benefit "in some cases" . But..I believe cosequin for cats says the same thing, and when I first started Ootay on it way back when, she was improved in a week.
They recommend a double dose for the first week or two (I would cal it a "loading dose") but of course I can't do that with Mazy cat, I have to start from the other end, very tiny amounts and slow.
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If I remember correctly, she's only been on the GLM for about 1 week or so. If you're already seeing signs of improvement, as difficult as it may be, it might be best to give the GLM (and Reiki, or both) more time. I know that's hard to do.
I'd suggesting asking Mazy what she recommends, but I'm pretty sure she'd say "no" to the vet!
Okay, thank you Pookie! Mazy cat has been on the joint power for 11 days, and tonight I gave her the first full scoop. I went to a half scoop after 4 days, and after 5 days on half scoop, two days on 3/4 scoop, tonight she had a full scoop. They recommend giving it all at once in one meal, and that is what I am doing.
I have followed your advice on the ACV and haven't noticed any more of that urpyness. She did regurgitate Saturday, twice, morning meal and supper meal. She did not have the GLM that day.
I think I would make a decision based on her behavior for everything else she is doing... other then the sitting.
Thank you Lola, and okay. She seems content, has short spans of play activity, nothing really lively, but she does like me to roll the Yeeeow tomato across the floor and she does a point and wiggle then trots after it. Sometimes she flops down, well a greatly modified flop anyway, and takes it in her front paws and bites it a bit, no more bunny kicking though. Sometimes she waits for me to follow her and roll it back the other way. She does that two or three times in a row.
Normal appetite.
Using her stools, but waits to be lifted up to the table for meals. Jumps off herself, onto her stool.
Likes to be carried downstairs, but will go down on her own if I set her down on the landing. Comes up by herself.
She can't seem to get comfortable lying on my chest though, so she isn't doing that any more. Well she's still trying, but not staying and settling. One time when she was getting off, her leg slipped and she squeaked, so she must have hurt herself. Since then she can't seem to settle and after trying, she gets off me again.
Comes to bed at night, though for a week or more, when it was very cold she was staying in the hammock all night.
The weather fluctuations are very hard on her I think, and when it gets cold she really feels it, even though I am keeping the house warm. Much warmer than I am comfortable in, I hope it is warm enough for her (about 68-70). But when it goes from warm to cold to warm to cold, she and I both have trouble with that.
It seems so unfair that with all she has to cope with in her little life, she has to have arthritis too. Her stiffness started last winter but it went away in summer, and when it came back this fall it was much worse. Here Jennie is, only a year or so behind Mazy cat and she (thankfully) shows no signs of arthritis.
Ootay was 13 I think, when she started needing the cosequin for cats
Thing is, there ARE other things to try. Adequan injections, which, after the first intramuscular (or maybe two times) can be given sub q at home. Cold laser therapy.
But those involve vet trips. I planned to just wait for her 6 month check up in January.
Tonight I just started to doubt myself. I've never been wrong yet about my choices for her, regarding to vet or not to vet. I guess I should keep trusting.
Thanks for your support.