Yet more state of the greyhound...
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bunnI took Mollydog off the Metacam and put her back on Previcox (which is a painkiller but not an anti-inflammatory as well) and the leg immediately started to swell again, so it was pretty obvious that the Metacam was just keeping the swelling down.
I suppose I could have moved her onto Metacam permanently, but Rude Craig the surgeon reckoned that removing the metalwork was really the best option and the Xray confirmed that.
So, she went in and had her operation yesterday. She seems quite cheery though, and when she got home was mostly concerned that she had missed both breakfast and lunch! Bandage comes off on tomorrow, then the staples will come out next week if all goes well.
Fingers crossed she'll heal up quickly. The worry is that she might get another ulcer if she's bandaged for long (she got a horrible one after the last op. Tissue paper Mollydog skin is not designed to live inside bandages, but it's quite difficult to stop her licking it if unbandaged - her legs and neck are so long the cone solution just doesn't work very well!
She isn't very confident walking on the bandaged leg, so needs carrying upstairs.
I've managed to convince her that she can go downstairs on her own, which is something, as I've managed to come down with a horrible bug and carrying 27kg of Mollydog is quite taxing when you are feeling urgish. Apart from ferrying greyhounds to and from vets, I mostly slept yesterday: today I was ostensibly working, which really meant I answered a few emails and flomped about feeling sorry for myself, though I did manage to buy dogfood and walk Az .
Dogs Must Be Walked No Matter What! I should put that on a usericon sometime: it's practically the motto of our house...
Luckily, Az seems more prepared to go out on his own this time round. I think he has got used to the idea of walking on his own, and he doesnt' seem so nervous and reluctant. If he had remembered he was nervous and reluctant all the time, I could just have not walked him, but unfortunately he became boingy and importunate in the house, but then when I took him out, remembered that he didn't want to go out and run it off, which was a bit of a pain.
The heat has been useful: neither of them are so keen to go tearing about when it's hot. Molls wanted to come out walking with Az at first, but quickly realised that she couldn't cope when I walked with her to the end of the drive, and was happy to go home again. Sensible dog.
I suppose I could have moved her onto Metacam permanently, but Rude Craig the surgeon reckoned that removing the metalwork was really the best option and the Xray confirmed that.
So, she went in and had her operation yesterday. She seems quite cheery though, and when she got home was mostly concerned that she had missed both breakfast and lunch! Bandage comes off on tomorrow, then the staples will come out next week if all goes well.
Fingers crossed she'll heal up quickly. The worry is that she might get another ulcer if she's bandaged for long (she got a horrible one after the last op. Tissue paper Mollydog skin is not designed to live inside bandages, but it's quite difficult to stop her licking it if unbandaged - her legs and neck are so long the cone solution just doesn't work very well!
She isn't very confident walking on the bandaged leg, so needs carrying upstairs.
I've managed to convince her that she can go downstairs on her own, which is something, as I've managed to come down with a horrible bug and carrying 27kg of Mollydog is quite taxing when you are feeling urgish. Apart from ferrying greyhounds to and from vets, I mostly slept yesterday: today I was ostensibly working, which really meant I answered a few emails and flomped about feeling sorry for myself, though I did manage to buy dogfood and walk Az .
Dogs Must Be Walked No Matter What! I should put that on a usericon sometime: it's practically the motto of our house...
Luckily, Az seems more prepared to go out on his own this time round. I think he has got used to the idea of walking on his own, and he doesnt' seem so nervous and reluctant. If he had remembered he was nervous and reluctant all the time, I could just have not walked him, but unfortunately he became boingy and importunate in the house, but then when I took him out, remembered that he didn't want to go out and run it off, which was a bit of a pain.
The heat has been useful: neither of them are so keen to go tearing about when it's hot. Molls wanted to come out walking with Az at first, but quickly realised that she couldn't cope when I walked with her to the end of the drive, and was happy to go home again. Sensible dog.
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Cox 2 inhibitors - one of my special subjects :-)
Date: 2010-05-27 04:38 pm (UTC)Previcox is a slightly more Cox-2 specific anti-inflammatory (firocoxib) related to celecoxib (which we also use in humans)
So the difference for Mollydog may not have been in the mechanism of action of the two drugs but in the dose, the absorption or the metabolism which meant she got different levels of drug delivered to the tissue.
Re: Cox 2 inhibitors - one of my special subjects :-)
Date: 2010-05-27 06:20 pm (UTC)The previcox is in tablet form, the metacam is a liquid. Perhaps that makes the difference. I asked for previcox as her 'long term' thing that she has daily for her other bad leg*, there seemed to be more evidence of metacam causing stomach problems in dogs. Though that could just be that metacam has been available longer for dogs...
I'd have thought it might be a coincidence for Molls, only Rude Craig seemed to think was likely to be related.
* 2 working ones left, fingers crossed...
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