Well, we went for our appointment concerning acupunture referral yesterday & it was not pretty. As I am sure you guys know, in the doggy world you generally don't pick the nearest vet. You go to the ones that you hear their names over & over. Well, normally we go to the one vet but he was out so they gave us to the new vet practicing with him.
Well, she wanted to take x-rays which basically showed us what we already knew. Every GSD I have had in the past developed the spinal issues later in life. But the x-rays were not all that bad although practically unreadable as Sammy was wide awake when we did them. I didn't want anything else at her age of 13.
One good thing the vet did give us a new drug called Tramadol & Sammy is getting 75 mg twice a day along one the one dosage of Metacam. I did see a big improvement today after giving the Tramadol. But we still don't have a referral for acunpuncture to anyone I would trust. The two places she suggested I would be afraid of. One I just would not trust and the other place tends to go to the other extreme of running every test possible.
But on the plus side, Sammy is feeling much better tonight.
Well, she wanted to take x-rays which basically showed us what we already knew. Every GSD I have had in the past developed the spinal issues later in life. But the x-rays were not all that bad although practically unreadable as Sammy was wide awake when we did them. I didn't want anything else at her age of 13.
One good thing the vet did give us a new drug called Tramadol & Sammy is getting 75 mg twice a day along one the one dosage of Metacam. I did see a big improvement today after giving the Tramadol. But we still don't have a referral for acunpuncture to anyone I would trust. The two places she suggested I would be afraid of. One I just would not trust and the other place tends to go to the other extreme of running every test possible.
But on the plus side, Sammy is feeling much better tonight.