[Dailydrool] I'm discouraged

[Sabrina]

In February, we adopted Gumbo. He's 5 years old and very allergic. He 
was on antibiotics, ear meds, and prednisone. He had a bloody, 
infected foot from chewing it; an ear infection; and his skin was 
actually warm to the touch. It took two rounds of meds for his 
allergies to calm down and his foot to heal. I took him to my vet for 
a checkup, and my vet sold me on Apoquel. He actually marked up a 
white board and pointed out the advantages over all the other 
options. It sounded like he repeated the pitch from pharmaceutical 
rep, but it worked. Gumbo is on a limited ingredient diet, and we've 
been giving him Apoquel and an antifugal called Ketoconazole for 
several months. He's been doing great. Last week, I phoned to pick up 
another month's supply of both pills and was told that Apoquel was on 
backorder with no known available date; so I broke Gumbo's pills in 
half. When I had just a few left, I gave him a half every other day. 
It's been less than a week, and he's starting to chew on his foot 
again. Today, I called to request more Ketoconazole; I was told there 
had been a price increase - it was 70 cents a pill last month; the 
manufacturer is now charging $2.80 a pill - four times what it cost 
last month. Gumbo was taking them twice a day, so a month's supply 
was $168. I looked for Apoquel on line, but it's on backorder. Is 
anyone able to get it?

Sabrina, Gumbo and Ellie