By cat-astrophic - 25/02/2015 15:44 - United Kingdom

Today, after 3 years of studying to be a veterinarian, I found out I may not be able to continue. It's not because I'm failing my classes, but because my body has developed an allergy to cats. FML
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meganss12 8

Maybe change to being a large animal vet, then you can take care of horses and not worry about your allergies!! :)

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Witchylady 17

You know you can get desensitised. It takes up to three years to finish the course and the first year has 21 weekly vaccine injections but it usually does the trick. Speak to your GP about referring you to an allergists. But in saying that depending on how bad your allergies are you may need to defer your studies for the first year so the allergen injections can start working their magic. Good luck. I hope everything works out for you.

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SookyLala 13

that sucks, maybe you can specialize? avian, or reptilian, something other then cats

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ColonelCusswords 24

There is a drug treatment that can remove allergies. you need to try that instead of giving up

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zsmith105 11

You can get shots from a doctor over a period of several years. I used to be allergic to rabbits and cats until about 2 years of shots, I'm a lot less allergic.

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marlyshaw 2

You can make it work. When i was in school for vetmed i knew a few girls who were allergic to some animal. They're doing well.

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Kittyphysics 21

hang in there op, theres lots of options open to you yet.

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militarybrat 21

Im so sorry op and i truly hope an allergy regimen will help or it isnt a very bad allergy.

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thejonac 21

maybe you could get a jab that stops your allergy? hope you can keep studying what you have passion for OP :)

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amileah13 26

That's terrible! Your allergy is preventing you from becoming what you want to be, your dream job of becoming a veterinarian. I'm so sorry that's so disheartening!

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nrwl_30 17

I've had similar thing happen to my dream. I feel your pain. Work on plan B.

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PANDORUM89 21

you can specialize in another species.

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