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05-19-2010, 05:47 PM | #16 |
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| Check out my thread a while back about Jackson limping... ended up being Lymes disease. Ask for a Lymes test first, they're like $30. The vet I went to, I ended up paying like $350 for x-rays, lymes test, etc... and they just put him on a 30 day antibiotic, and 7 day of pain meds and he stopped limping within 6 hours. I restricted his activity for a week, per vets request. http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/yor...some-help.html
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05-19-2010, 07:25 PM | #18 |
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| Just took mayson for a walk and at first it looked like he was better, but when he lifted his leg to pee (he lifted the better leg) he almost lost his balance. It is clearing causing him pain. Then, he just simply stopped walking. Oh I feel soooo terrible for him and wish I could make the pain go away. When I got back in I tried one more time to massage his leg to see if I could correct the LP (if that is even what he has) but had no luck - I'm afraid to place anymore pressure on it in fear of causing him more pain. Poor Mayson, he seems so sad |
05-19-2010, 07:34 PM | #19 |
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| My initial thought was lyme disease. I literally pulled a tick off of him in the inside part of the hurt leg two days ago. However, I always thought that it took about a month or so before symptoms start...also his appetite is fine. He is sleepy, but that also could be because of the hurt leg. |
05-19-2010, 08:03 PM | #20 | |
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Lyme Disease does your dog get the lyme vaccine? We do not have deer ticks here so i do not know too much about lyme disease. Did you read the other thread? | |
05-19-2010, 08:17 PM | #21 | |
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05-19-2010, 08:54 PM | #22 | |
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Sometimes when they have LP it can pop out and give them some problems for a few days; but with anti inflammatories they often improve and nothing else needs to be done. If you are not familiar with the anatomy of their legs, I would not suggest that you manipulate it at all. You might ask the vet how to check knees for future reference.
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05-20-2010, 06:45 AM | #23 |
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| Well, Mayson seems to be doing better today. When I took him out for a walk this morning he wasn't limping but still walking very slow. Since last night, I've been real careful to keep him off his feet and picking him up and down from our bed/couches. Perhaps the LP corrected itself? I don't know. I'm holding off on the vet for now and going to see how he is when I return from work tonight. He's still eating and he seems more lively today, so I am hoping that this was LP that simply corrected itself and nothing more than that. I will keep you guys posted. |
05-20-2010, 07:30 AM | #24 | |
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By March the following year, he started to either limping, picking leg up, skipping or just sittin down and not wanting to walk--which he LOVES to do. Coincidentally, I took him in for a possible UTI and mentioned to the vet about his not wanting to walk...led to diagnoses of grade 3/4 lp. She also thought something might have been wrong with hip so she took xrays. Saw that hii ligament was way over on the side of his leg which made his little leg bowed. Immediately said that this was beyond her scope and referred us to ortho surgeon. Got an appt Monday following week and brought him in for surgery that Wed. That was a year ago, the end of March. When we first got Hot Rod at 15 weeks, we were playing around and all of a sudden he sat down, I freaked and took him to vet who told me that he had a loose knee but at that time it had worked its way back in and he needed his anal glands done so that was probably more of the issue at that time. All of the issues with the lp was when he was 1 1/2 years old. He's fine today and am very glad that we did the surgery. So please keep an eye your little one as whatever it is really needs to have a vet look at if it continues. Sometimes the symptoms may go away for awhile but just keep an eye as to his behavoiurs and quirks and you'll be able to see when something is not right. Best of luck!
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You can make the situation worse if you walk him as well | |
05-20-2010, 08:09 AM | #27 |
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| I would advise you to go ahead and get a vet's diagnosis. In my case, we are dealing with a ruptured acl and she is scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning. We knew there was a problem but we thought it was the hips, and x-rays confirmed. Had we focused on the knee also two months ago we could possibly be avoiding (expensive) surgery tomorrow. So, my point is in some cases strict crate/kennel rest can avoid surgery later if you catch it soon enough, but if you are only guessing at what may be the problem you may actually allow further damage as is what happened to us. My baby showed no real signs of pain either until it was too late to do anything but surgery to alleviate the problem. Good luck with your baby.
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you are correct they will not be in pain with an acl injury as my friend played soccer with no acl as a human. The initial pain is when the injury happens after that no pain. I ruptured my achilles same thing the initial pain was when it happened after that no real pain Last edited by dwerten; 05-20-2010 at 08:17 AM. | |
05-20-2010, 08:31 AM | #29 | |
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