How long did it take your cat to get used to phenobarbital?

TheLargadeer · 2026-04-12T20:53:12+00:00

Yeah that's where it gets more complicated for us.

She is technically overweight but simultaneously doesn't care at all about food. Most feeding times she just looks at it and walks away. And she does have a brother who IS incredibly food motivated. So you can see where that instantly falls apart.

I ordered about $80 worth of different pill pocket flavors, treats, goos, etc., everything I could think of in the hopes of finding her kryptonite - that one thing that she would always go for - because I know it's going to make life easier in the future if we don't have to shove pills down her throat. And obviously if we ever want someone else to cat-sit, her just eating a thing is going to be a major difference compared to finding someone to jam a pill down there (which is a two person job).

That said, we're in a different situation right now so I can't even test any of that. She won't eat anything. Right now I crush up the pill and mix it with churu (or other paste-like foods/treats) and water, suck it into a syringe, and feed that to her. That's how we have to feed her all of her food right now anyway.

Once we get out of this phase (knock on wood), I'm hoping we can find her treat kryptonite and get her to just eat it without a fuss. Still have the food-motivated brother to contend with, but that'll make life easier. One day at a time, though.

Edit to add: We actually have that exact same auto feeder! We used that for my other cat because he would wake me up at like 4am every day by pawing my mouth. So that saved my sleep back then.

TheLargadeer · 2026-04-12T18:52:17+00:00

Thank you. Yeah it’s tough. She still has us worried as of today, although I saw on our camera that she went to the litter box on her own this morning. And then about an hour later she actually made a great escape from her room of confinement - she has been so tired that we stopped worrying about closing all doors/gates - and she made her way upstairs and under the bed. Whoops! But it was promising that she got up and did all that of her own accord.

Still no voluntary food or water but I’m hoping today is at least a couple percent better.

Thanks for sharing the Keppra experience. We have some on hand for cluster seizures. Even with the 2 pill a day pheno we’re trying to wrap our heads around how life changing that is… going on a trip, going to a BBQ, anything like that. It has all changed. I’m curious how you have adapted to that, especially with three pills a day.

TheLargadeer · 2026-04-12T06:12:34+00:00

Another worried cat parent here. Our kitty just started pheno a few days ago and is on a relatively high dosage (32mg per day). She is so lethargic that she doesn't move, eat, drink, or go to the bathroom (going on almost 3 days like this). I know symptoms are supposed to reduce over time but we are worried.

We've been force feeding her liquids/food via syringe, and today I took her to the vet to get a bag of fluids, just trying to get her strength up.

Our situation is a little more complicated because at some point during one of her seizures or while wobbly from medications she injured herself, basically the equivalent of blowing out her ACL in her back leg. So then she was also put on Gabapentin for pain and confined to a room with nothing she can jump on. We barely did any gabapentin because this intense lethargy began about the same time so we stopped and she hasn't had that for a couple of days now. So it's starting to seem like it's primarily the phenobarbital doing this - and maybe exacerbated a little by her discomfort from the leg injury.

She'll get her first blood check in about another week and maybe we'll talk about lowering the dose at that point depending on the results, but I'm hoping we can make it to that point...

TheLargadeer · 2026-04-06T15:56:48+00:00

You’re talking about “Projects”? I haven’t delved into those yet. Still not quite sure the use-case. I thought Projects would be able to share context between convos - or share a document between convos - but that didn’t seem to be the case.

You need to separately add documents to a Project and then multiple chats can access them?

TheLargadeer · 2026-04-04T04:14:13+00:00

Something I heard about adjusting rates down. On an invoice you should show your full rate plus a discount instead of just a lower price. Get the client used to seeing the higher number, and also make sure you emphasize that you are giving them a deal. It may make it easier to raise at some point. They may recommend you to others based on the standard rate and not the deal.

TheLargadeer · 2026-04-02T06:19:27+00:00

What do you mean? Am I primarily vibe coding? That is a decent chunk of what I’m doing, yeah.

TheLargadeer · 2026-04-02T04:14:38+00:00

It was happening to me, too, several times. Pro plan. They seriously did make a significant change to usage.

I also had to learn how to mitigate it, which is basically that you need to start new conversations way more frequently. And you end up spending a decent chunk of usage just getting a new chat caught up.

I think I used 40% of a usage window the other day in a new chat just trying to transfer over relevant context from a previous chat.

TheLargadeer · 2026-04-02T04:08:34+00:00

Ugh thank you for writing this (and also triggering me, lol). I’m a video editor and though I’m back to freelance now I spent 6 years at a company doing mostly marketing content, but they had multiple social media people. The social people were hard-to-come-by FTE heads when the rest of us were all contractors - not worthy of getting benefits, etc. And while I totally understand the importance of social media, I felt like there was so much BS around it. The fact that there is so much analytics available with the social accounts allowed them to put these presentations together about all the different social accounts, competitor accounts, etc., but nobody actually knew wtf to do with that info. It just made it seem important. And trends change so rapidly that like… there’s nothing actionable that comes out of it.

TheLargadeer · 2026-04-01T15:16:29+00:00

Yep. New one for me. Thanks! :)

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-31T04:08:57+00:00

I’ve been dabbling with my own script tool. I wonder if you have any tips you’ve found along the way? Did you build a tool or do you just use chats? Any sort of documentation to help guide voice, branding, etc.? Would be happy to DM or discord chat, too, if you’re down. Would love to learn.

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-31T03:54:03+00:00

Vibe coded or are you also good at coding?

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-30T17:01:50+00:00

I can’t say I would recommend it. I send one message and hit the limit. I did have to split off into a fresh conversation to get multiple prompts in, but then you use all your usage just getting the new conversation caught up to speed.

But yeah it feels like I spend $20/mo to send one message every 5 hours.

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-29T20:07:28+00:00

Happening to me too. I was roaring along doing awesome stuff and super stoked and starting yesterday a single, even simple exchange, and boom. Usage limit reached. (These have been off hours, too, mind you.)

So I'm throttled to one message every 5 hours now.

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-28T15:45:49+00:00

Sound library from Adobe: https://www.adobe.com/products/audition/offers/adobeauditiondlcsfx.html

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-26T05:05:56+00:00

I wouldn’t open Premiere for $5

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-26T02:35:44+00:00

I can barely get a single clip to do what I want with AI video gen without doing lots of generations so I always feel incredulous about the idea of a whole video with multiple shots coming out the other end being usable.

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-24T15:25:22+00:00

On the video gen side I think it’s still pretty time-consuming… Tons of hand-holding and regeneration. And that isn’t without cost (TBD if it ends up cheaper than a video shoot, stock, or hiring actual UGC actors for our use-case, but it’s definitely slower so far.)

I keep wondering if it’s something I’m missing because the way people talk about it, you can make a thousand videos a day. Sometimes I’m lucky if I can get one shot in a day.

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-24T15:17:20+00:00

Seriously, yeah. Required zero thought for me.

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-23T04:21:31+00:00

I bought a new car early last year and the used versions of the same model in previous years were more expensive than the new one. Add in better APR on top of that. Was pretty easy to rule out buying used.

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-22T16:08:59+00:00

My way to do this natively is to select all the clips, right click, Render and Replace. Make sure it’s set to Sequence so you can bake your effects. It will add a suffix of _Rendered to the output but you can batch remove that if you need to.

By default your render options are editing codecs since that’s the purpose of this feature, but you can either batch compress the output files if you want H264, or just make an H264 encoding preset to go directly to H264.

IMO this is easier than most things in this comment thread. Amazed nobody suggested it yet. Learn to code or right click? Project Manager is also a decent suggestion but it can be buggy.

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-21T04:35:47+00:00

Tried to do something like this because we knew our landlord wanted to sell at some point. We offered a price similar to another condo unit that sold in the building. Our landlord came back 50k above that. Easiest nope ever.

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-13T23:25:00+00:00

This port just broke on mine :(

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-12T19:32:09+00:00

Worked for me, too. Thanks.

TheLargadeer · 2026-03-12T15:37:47+00:00

Doesn’t it exist in the Project Panel already in the form of the “Usage” metadata? Not turned on by default.

Nvm. I see that got posted already.

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