chevss454
Data-driven decision-making is science and art.
I appreciate your input Chevs.
I guess based on where they thought the pain was coming from they x-rayed the spine to rule out tumor etc and we were told results were negative.
The gabapectin was prescribed a few weeks back and was working. We had a neurological consult at that time. I guess if this doesn't resolve an MRI is next?
Waiting on the blood work results.
Our pup is in pain today still.
He does have DCM and we give him taurine daily.
When he was younger and having skin issues we were told to switch to a grain free diet. What a mistake.
We make certain to ask every client at every visit about diet and caution everyone about grain free diets. Blue Buffalo should be sued unmercifully for starting that craze.
Hopefully he's had a full echocardiogram and has a specialist/cardiologist monitoring his progress. Big strides have been made in cardiac care the last 10 years. Abnormal beats can cause weakness and lethargy intermittently. 24 hour Holter monitors can detect these.
What about anemia --> splenic hematomas are very common in labs --> sluggishness and can die suddenly from massive bleed outs.
Does he have rear leg foot placing deficits? If he turns quickly or if you try to make him back up does he flop on the ground? That could be an important sign of degenerative myelopathy of the posterior spinal cord. Very common. The neurologist would have picked that up. If he can back up 3 steps when you pull back on his collar it's not that.
My very best wishes, AOT.