lute
01-12-2008, 12:43 AM
Beanie has been having some trouble with his back legs for some time now. I thought he just had arthritis in his hips so I was giving him 250mg Glucosamine tablets twice a day. He seemed to do a lot better for a while then all the sudden got worse. He could barely stand and just couldn't walk. He was screaming every time he took a step. Poor guy. :( I took him to work with me on Tuesday and had Dr. Luff look at him.
We found out that Beanie has Luxating patella(floating knee caps) is BOTH knees, PLUS arthritis. :( On a scale of 1-4, 4 being the worse case, Beanie has a 2 in both knees. Dr. Luff put Beanie on half a tablet of Deramaxx 25mg once a day for the next 7 days to see if it helps. It seems to be doing well so far. If he doesn't have any episodes in this 7 days he'll be on it permanently. If they do get worse then we'll take some blood tests and probably put him on Rimadyl. Rimadyl can have some side effects. Not always bad ones, but I really hope it doesn't come to that quite yet. It will eventually. :(
Everyone keep my old man in your prayers. I hate that he's haveing these problems at only 10yrs old.
We found out that Beanie has Luxating patella(floating knee caps) is BOTH knees, PLUS arthritis. :( On a scale of 1-4, 4 being the worse case, Beanie has a 2 in both knees. Dr. Luff put Beanie on half a tablet of Deramaxx 25mg once a day for the next 7 days to see if it helps. It seems to be doing well so far. If he doesn't have any episodes in this 7 days he'll be on it permanently. If they do get worse then we'll take some blood tests and probably put him on Rimadyl. Rimadyl can have some side effects. Not always bad ones, but I really hope it doesn't come to that quite yet. It will eventually. :(
Everyone keep my old man in your prayers. I hate that he's haveing these problems at only 10yrs old.