Our Corgi has had season limited itchiness (chew paws, scratch belly mainly) and has done well on Apoquel, like magically well. Thought we dodged symptoms this year as he is usually itchy by mid-September. Over the weekend he started itching his eyes relentlessly (more minor paws and belly). Got in to the vet and started Apoquel last night. He seems a bit better today but not the magic of prior years. Any experience with it for eye predominant symptoms? Vet stained his eyes, no corneal abrasions, yet.
Apoquel works for my dog with his eyes. Without it they turn pink, get a bit goopy, and he’ll scratch all around them and sometimes get dangerously close to scratching out the eyeballs which makes me nervous. My other one does fine with some drops the vet prescribed as needed as well as visine drops as his issues aren’t as severe. It may take a couple days for full effect depending on how your dog is - mine is usually “better” within a couple hours and then by the next day or two the redness and inflammation is gone and his scratch marks start to heal (body and eyes). If your dog has quit scratching at his eyes, they aren’t gooping as much, and/or redness is lessening (not sure what your specific eye symptoms are here) then give it another day and then you might want to call your vet about another option if the apoquel doesn’t seem to be helping enough…
I think we switched from Temaril-P to Apoquel the vet told us to give it at least a week to see if it was strong enough for my dog. Her environmental allergies are horrible so there are days when she’s still miserable - usually lines up with poor air quality and high pollen days. We stay in side and wipe off her paws when she does go out so she doesn’t wipe it on her face.
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Thank you. Definitely better today. Wasn’t so sure we were on the right track yesterday. Vet suggested we could add 5mg of Claritin. Any experience with that?
Thank you. Definitely better today. Wasn’t so sure we were on the right track yesterday. Vet suggested we could add 5mg of Claritin. Any experience with that?
I think we used baby Benadryl as a stop gap but I forget the dosage and it knocked her out, even more than Temaril-P did.
We have an allergy dog that is an inhalant allergy mess. On Apoquel for his life basically. Once it stopped working, even when we bumped it back to the loading dose, we added cytopoint and it was back to magic itch-free town.
Cytopoint was costly and did nothing for my guy. It is a very hit and miss treatment. I’ve tried Benadryl & Claritin but neither have any effect on my guy either. Worth a try because those are pretty cost effective so you won’t lose much and maybe it will work great for you!
That’s a bummer for you =(. None of the OTC stuff works for my guy either. We have kind of reached a stage where I will be able to keep him “manageably itchy” but he will never be itch free again. When we adopted him he was basically hairless and had scratched out an eye, so he has come a loooong way. I wish I could take it all away though.
[USER][/USER]y, bless you. Sounds awful for your guy. He’s definitely scratching less and his poor eyes are less red. Giving it the weekend adding in the Claritin and keeping my fingers crossed. Temps dropping 30 degrees somehow helps.
My itchy Boxer gets daily apoquel, claratin and benedryl. Right now it is working. For him it is ears, not so much eyes, paws or belly.
Quick update. Took over a week but Apoquel seems to have worked it’s previous magic, including his eye symptoms. Stopped the Claritin Sunday and weaned back Apoquel on vet rec to 1/2 tab twice a day Tuesday. Happy itch free Corgi. Fingers crossed it’s durable. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
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I’m glad your dog is doing better!
