Dog pain relief

[PositronicRay]

11 y/o 15kg mongrel (sheltie/westie/French bulldog/unknown) about the right weight. We're keeping exercise consistant and between 30min to an hour, plus regular hydrotherapy. He's always had a sensitive stomach and vomiting not unusual. Poos always solid and regular.

Since a puppy he's had one short underdeveloped hind leg and developed arthritis. 15 months ago ruptured his cruciate ligament on his good leg, successful CCL surgery.

At the vets recommendation he's been on Loxicom long term for arthritis pain. Just before Christmas he started vomiting daily so stopped the painkillers, vomiting cleared up. A few weeks later he suffered a soft tissue injury in a front leg,, vet recommended omniprezol to help settle his stomach and gabapentin as an alternative. Vomiting started.

His front leg injury is okay so we took him off painkillers completely, vomiting has cleared up.

A few days ago we reintroduced Loxicom (for hind leg arthritic pain) vomiting resumed.

We'll leave him off painkillers for a few days and see how it goes, then discuss with the vet. A bit of a loss as what to do next.

Picture for reference.




ETA lively enough but stiff in the hind quarters during the evening.

Edited by PositronicRay on Thursday 1st February 08:00

[Red9zero]

Our 13yr old Westie has had a couple of ACL ops and now has a bit of arthritis, probably not helped by the metal plates in his legs. He is on daily YuMove and a monthly massage, which seems to help. Also, snake oil / coincidence / placebo it may be, but he has a magnetic collar, which I assumed would be a waste of money, but when he went for his first walk with it on, there was a noticeable difference. Other than that, regular, short walks keep him (and me) moving and the joints from seizing up.

[garythesign]

Our two older dogs both suffer with stiffness.

We give them golden paste where the main ingredient is turmeric.

We are in Ireland and ours is produced here, but I know you can buy similar in the UK

Good luck

[PositronicRay]

Yes he's been on yu move and turmeric most of his life. Not really painkillers/anti inflammatory, benefits unlkely but harmless.


Not sure what I'm asking, because most painkillers work in the same way and have similar side effects.

[Red9zero]

Give massage therapy a go. We were recommended physio and massage therapy by the vet, but he really didn't get on with the physio. Definately made an improvement.

[Thevet]

ask your vet about librelo injections, work in a completely different way to most anti-inflammatory painkillers, many of which do have side-effects like vomitting.

[PositronicRay]

Thevet said:

ask your vet about librelo injections, work in a completely different way to most anti-inflammatory painkillers, many of which do have side-effects like vomitting.

i've heard positives and negatives regarding these, it's certainly worth considering.

[Red9zero]

PositronicRay said:

Thevet said:

ask your vet about librelo injections, work in a completely different way to most anti-inflammatory painkillers, many of which do have side-effects like vomitting.

i've heard positives and negatives regarding these, it's certainly worth considering.

A friends dog had them every month for the last few years. They aren't cheap, not that that matters, and they do make a difference, although the tail off was noticeable towards the end of the month.

[PositronicRay]

Red9zero said:

PositronicRay said:

Thevet said:

ask your vet about librelo injections, work in a completely different way to most anti-inflammatory painkillers, many of which do have side-effects like vomitting.

i've heard positives and negatives regarding these, it's certainly worth considering.

A friends dog had them every month for the last few years. They aren't cheap, not that that matters, and they do make a difference, although the tail off was noticeable towards the end of the month.

One thing thar concerns me. Is that they're so effective he doesn't realise he's overdoing it and damages joints even more.

[Squadrone Rosso]

We swear by Ymove joint care tabs. One a day. Takes about a month to work.

Metacalm is also good for flare ups.

[Red9zero]

PositronicRay said:

Red9zero said:

PositronicRay said:

Thevet said:

ask your vet about librelo injections, work in a completely different way to most anti-inflammatory painkillers, many of which do have side-effects like vomitting.

i've heard positives and negatives regarding these, it's certainly worth considering.

A friends dog had them every month for the last few years. They aren't cheap, not that that matters, and they do make a difference, although the tail off was noticeable towards the end of the month.

One thing thar concerns me. Is that they're so effective he doesn't realise he's overdoing it and damages joints even more.

That has been a concern with our dog after recent ACL op. He is on the lead a lot more now, as he seems to have a new lease of life.

[TikTak]

I mean the vet is the best thing to go to for recommendations. Unfortunately NSAIDs have vomiting side affects in a lot of dogs so you may find other brand names have the same problems.

Metacam is what our dogs have usually had in a liquid form.

YuMove is massively well rated with almost everyone I've spoken to for joint pains and issues but it costs the earth.

[Red9zero]

TikTak said:

I mean the vet is the best thing to go to for recommendations. Unfortunately NSAIDs have vomiting side affects in a lot of dogs so you may find other brand names have the same problems.

Metacam is what our dogs have usually had in a liquid form.

YuMove is massively well rated with almost everyone I've spoken to for joint pains and issues but it costs the earth.

Metacam seems to be the vets answer to everything. Metacam isn't too bad if you get it on line and a few months supply at a time/

[Kev_Mk3]

Squadrone Rosso said:

We swear by Ymove joint care tabs. One a day. Takes about a month to work.

Metacalm is also good for flare ups.

Our Lab is on Ymove in the morning and metacalm of an evening with a paracetamol tablet. Helps him no end due to his arthritis.

[Richard-390a0]

I'm sure I read you shouldn't keep them on Metacam long term due to risk of some sort of organ damage. My vets recommended 100mg of paracetamol x3 daily for pain relief, I'm not sure how that would affect your dogs poor tummy though?.

[rambo19]

My JRT is on Gabapentin for joint pain.
I'm also on Gabapentin for severe nerual encroachment!

[Bullybutt]

My old lass had librella jabs monthly for the last three years of her life. They worked amazingly, she hardly had any quality of life before them and yet was back to daily walks and getting in and off the sofa easily again. Along with that we did the golden paste supplements and half a human paracetamol morning and night. Otherwise look into Pardale V as pain relief, it works differently to the others and doesn’t come with the side effects of sickness etc.

[BOR]

My older whippet also gets a Librella jab, which seems to work well for her.

[Kev_Mk3]

Richard-390a0 said:

I'm sure I read you shouldn't keep them on Metacam long term due to risk of some sort of organ damage. My vets recommended 100mg of paracetamol x3 daily for pain relief, I'm not sure how that would affect your dogs poor tummy though?.

This is true but sadly he wont be around in later life its more about quality of life not length as much as it pains me to say

[Paulsd]

Our 9 year old border collie has been on Librela for just over a year - it’s amazing.

No side effects and there is no limit to how long they can be in it for. Couldn’t recommend it enough.

We buy ours online from vet dispense and our vet injects it. Works out just a little more than half price that way.