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Originally Posted by mizzwanned  Thanks ladyjane, if you know of anyone that went through this that would help a lot. I would like to speak to them. The surgery itself-they gave me an estimate of about $5,000-$6,000. Today at the vets it cost me $2500. We went to our regular vet which they did xrays, pain medication, blood work etc and that was $500. They referred us to a neurologist, which is where the other $2000 went. They are keeping her overnight and she is going to get steroids, pain med., and a neck brace. They said that can help the situation possibly temporarily but not completely and eventually surgery would be needed. An mri is about $2000 plus the surgery of $6000 i would be shelling out a total of about $10,000. I do not have that. On top of that they told me the surgery has about a 60% success rate, and its harder on small dogs. i am so stressed out, don't know what to do and i hate to see my baby in pain. |
AtlantoaxialInstabilitypups : AtlantoaxialInstabilitypups
Please come over to our yahoo group to help you. We are a group of mom's with AAI fur babies supporting each other and through surgery we have surviving babies! That is untrue of 60% success rate.
First get her stabilized with pain meds, steroids to decrease inflammation, and neck brace for stability. Then we go forward, there is Care Credit to help with the surgery bills, yes MRI is around $2600 Here and surgery varies where you live 3k sounds about right, total around 6k.
This is doable , you are in a panic right now please join our group so that we can help you with questions, there we can chat by phone also to guide you through.
AAI is congenital defect it surfaces any time post birth to several years later but they do survive! My name is Anne please contact us to help you