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Originally Posted by ECingMama

Is the preventative low dose chemo?

We're only supposed to treat March to September here, i think. Mosquito season?

Not sure if preventative is low dose poison (like chemo) but I think because they’ve learned larvae take months to form that they now recommend year round everywhere (according to what I’ve now been reading on the American Heartworm Society... I’ve read so much I might be confusing this and some
I skim as we don’t need preventative plans yet. We have 6 months to several years to treat!!)

I trust the vet but I don’t know how many dogs he’s treated or enough to know if need second opinion. I regret not getting second opinion when da diagnosed w cancer but after the fact we found out his cancer had spread two places and if we demanded second opinion we would’ve lost custody. We didn’t know he was hours from death.) I found out cuz casually said wish we had gotten second opinion cuz others in shorter protocol. The doctor told us he was critically ill and lucky he survived the first month of treatment .. and they would’ve taken custody of him until he was stable If we tried to take him out of the hospital

That affects dh in that he wants suzies treatment to start NOW