Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this. Firstly, she has been to the vet tonight and is on painkillers so fingers crossed she’s not in pain right now.
Sunday afternoon I gave my dog a bit of strawberry and she yelped when eating it, I thought it might have been a sore tooth or she bit her gums but the yelping continued for the rest of the day, if we stroked her, if one of the other dogs tails wagged in her face, if she jumped on the sofa or if she ran down the garden steps etc.
I thought it might pass, maybe she had pulled something but it continued and today I became worried as her gait was a bit more abnormal than usual, she is a GSD cross and has hip and elbow dysplasia but is on medication for those, shes nearly 7 and the vets and ourselves consider this a good age for her and her health issues. I thought it was a neck issue and the vet thinks spinal, she has said she can’t tell if it’s a sprain or something more serious, so the dog has been given painkillers for a week and we’re to go back and if she’s still in pain, x-rays are the next step.
She cries if we fuss her, we can’t take her for a walk, her walk was even worse when she got home, she cries when she eats anything and even with painkillers I'm not sure I want to put her through this for another week so would I be a bit unreasonable to suggest X-rays sooner? We always knew another serious problem and we’d have to let her go, she has 4 bad legs as well as a bad front wrist. Her legs aren’t great but she still enjoys life normally, a slow walk, jog up the garden.
I’m aware she’s never had a pain free life so feel like waiting an entire week for her x-rays is just a bit cruel on her if it’s something more serious. I don’t want to let her go but would really struggle with her in more pain, giving her even more painkillers, less exercise than she already has or have to separate her from our younger more playful dogs who she loves. I feel like she’d have no quality of life.
We only lost our older girl around 14 months ago so it’s such a hard thing to even think about that I don’t know if I’m being over emotional and should listen to the vet or my gut.
Sorry for the extremely rambling post, I’m a bit all over the place at even the idea it is something serious.