I am looking for unbiased reviews about Simparico Trio, recommended by vets near me. I have given my mixed breed dog a couple of doses with no obvious side effects, and it seems to be doing its job to prevent fleas, ticks, and heartworms. However I’ve seen a couple of reports stating serious side effects: seizures, even death. Any firsthand experience would be appreciated!
I’ve been using it for well over a year with zero side effects. I have a couple friends who are vets who use it as well. Every drug out there, be it for humans or pets will have adverse effects to some individuals.
In fact, one of those friends just posted about this drug and they will still use it and recommend it. She said she has not seen personally any side effects of the drug, but has seen many animals die from flea infestation.
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I’ve started using this on my Std poodle, because Frontline Plus wasn’t cutting it anymore. So far so good.
Same story as @Sophie with switching from Frontline; no issues here. It’s my understanding nearly all of these types of medications come with the low possibility of some nasty side effects as the active ingredients aren’t benign.
Editing to add - my mini Aussie got lyme on frontline. The treatment seemed to help but a lot of days she still seems off.
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I’ve been using it for quite awhile. My decrepit old Cocker with heart failure did fine on it and my LGD pup has been on it since last October with no problems so far. I find dead ticks on him routinely, never a live one yet.
If you sign up for Zoetis rewards you even get quite a bit of money back from buying it at your vet, only caveat is you have to buy at least 6 at a time.
I have been using it for about 5 months now I think and no issues. My vet highly recommended it and I absolutely trust her. A very good friend of mine is a LVT at the clinic I use and she said the number of calls they receive daily on people freaking out about the FB seizure posts is crazy.
Damned near every single flea and tick med goes through this. They’re pesticides, and they carry a risk. That risk is quite small if dosed correctly. Some dogs have a lower seizure threshold due to illness or epilepsy or just bad luck and they can have problems, or individual dogs might just be sensitive to certain drugs in the same way that certain people just can’t take certain meds. But overall, these things are really safe.
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We switched our Tibetan Spaniel puppy to it (from what her breeder used) based on the recommendation of her trusted veterinarian. The vet told us that this is, by far, the most popular med of its type prescribed in the practice, with no adverse results reported at this point.
Our little girl - who might grow a teensy bit more (the breed is considered late-maturing for a small dog) – is borderline for moving up to the next size larger dose, so we’ve been having her weighed at the clinic before purchasing pills the last two months. It was the vet’s recommendation to keep her on the smaller dose month before last, but this month I was told we could safely move to the bigger dose if we wanted, as there is a large margin of safety to account for consumers being inaccurate about the weight of their dogs.
However, I’m more comfortable sticking with the smaller dose. I’ll have her re-weighed next month and make a decision then. I don’t want to purchase six until I know for sure what her final weight will be.
It needs to be given with food.
I’m riding that line with mine, the current dose goes to 88.1 pounds and he was 72lbs at our visit last month. I went ahead and bought the six so I could get the rebate but I know at some point I’m going to have to buy one of the small ones to add and that will probably be one-by-one ~sigh~
