Ellie that's what the vet said about the x-ray, that without sedation it can be less revealing especially if the dog doesn't want to cooperate and they don't always show up on x-rays anyway, just like you said.
So far she's doing great. I am keeping her in her bed a lot (it's not that hard since she's usually sleeping around me anyway while I work at home on the computer every day for hours) and we don't let her go up or down the steps at my apartment building, we pick her up how the vet showed us that is supportive of upper and lower back, and we blocked off the slick floor of the kitchen (the rest of the house is carpet) so hopefully this will be enough. Oh yeah and we blocked off her ability to get up on the couch. I hope this will be enough for a while. I mean with her last vet visit being less than a month ago and now this time, we are over $500 in and that's about all the savings we had :/ I want to see about a neurologist in the future, and hope that the low activity will be OK for now. She doesn't really do a ton of jumping around but she does like to run a lot so I've been keeping her from doing that best to my ability.
We got her on these Zoom soft chews the vet offers at their facility and I can't find much info online about it, other than 1 or 2 websites that I don't recognize doing a review, but nowhere can I find information about Rimoxen which is the anti-inflammatory ingredient in the Zoom chews, which are a joint supplement/multivitamin. |