Any Guidance Appreciated
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 8:09 pm
This is a desperate post. I’m hoping that someone on this forum has seen something similar and can offer some kind of guidance.
A month ago my dog started showing very minimal lameness in his leg rear leg. Seriously, it was so insignificant that if you didn’t know my dog, you wouldn’t have noticed it at all. I took him to my primary vet for what I thought might be a sprain. My primary vet suspect a fibrocartilaginous embolism (FCE) and put him on meds (pain and steroids) to hold him over until his neurology appointment. A week later at neurology, he had an MRI and spinal tap and they said it looks like a clear cut FCE with some spinal swelling.
Fast forward a month and my dog has continued to decline. They’ve tried different meds (steroids and just recently antibiotics). I’ve taken him to a holistic vet and he was worse after chiropractic and accupuncture. He’s been to neuro a few times. I’ve changed his diet. He is scheduled for another MRI Tuesday but we are now at the point of neither back leg functioning. He has also started to experience pain within the past 3 days (since the chiropractic visit....which had been suggested by multiple vets.) He still has bladder and bowel control, he eats and drinks, etc but his legs have both given up and the pain seems to be bothering him enough that he had to go back on pain meds because he wouldn’t get up to go to the bathroom which distressed him a lot. Everyone is stumped and still swear that it looks like a classics FCE on the MRI but isn’t responding like it should.
Has anyone seen anything like this? I’m desperate. He still has deep pain and superficial sensation in both legs.....they just aren’t working and hes lost muscle mass and overall gone down hill quickly. Tuesday’s is either gonna provide answers or more questions which will likely result in my dog being euthanized for fear that whatever is going on will continue progressing. He’s not even three years old yet so I’m just hoping that someone, somewhere has seen something like this and can offer some insight.
He doesn’t have any recent vaccine. He has been tested for lots of diseases (full panel for tick born diseases, toxoplasmosis, etc) but the results are still pending. The MRI showed no contrast to indicate cancer or lymphoma but he had been on steroids for a week so it could have been masked. Up until the pain set in, his personality was still in full effect. Please help....
A month ago my dog started showing very minimal lameness in his leg rear leg. Seriously, it was so insignificant that if you didn’t know my dog, you wouldn’t have noticed it at all. I took him to my primary vet for what I thought might be a sprain. My primary vet suspect a fibrocartilaginous embolism (FCE) and put him on meds (pain and steroids) to hold him over until his neurology appointment. A week later at neurology, he had an MRI and spinal tap and they said it looks like a clear cut FCE with some spinal swelling.
Fast forward a month and my dog has continued to decline. They’ve tried different meds (steroids and just recently antibiotics). I’ve taken him to a holistic vet and he was worse after chiropractic and accupuncture. He’s been to neuro a few times. I’ve changed his diet. He is scheduled for another MRI Tuesday but we are now at the point of neither back leg functioning. He has also started to experience pain within the past 3 days (since the chiropractic visit....which had been suggested by multiple vets.) He still has bladder and bowel control, he eats and drinks, etc but his legs have both given up and the pain seems to be bothering him enough that he had to go back on pain meds because he wouldn’t get up to go to the bathroom which distressed him a lot. Everyone is stumped and still swear that it looks like a classics FCE on the MRI but isn’t responding like it should.
Has anyone seen anything like this? I’m desperate. He still has deep pain and superficial sensation in both legs.....they just aren’t working and hes lost muscle mass and overall gone down hill quickly. Tuesday’s is either gonna provide answers or more questions which will likely result in my dog being euthanized for fear that whatever is going on will continue progressing. He’s not even three years old yet so I’m just hoping that someone, somewhere has seen something like this and can offer some insight.
He doesn’t have any recent vaccine. He has been tested for lots of diseases (full panel for tick born diseases, toxoplasmosis, etc) but the results are still pending. The MRI showed no contrast to indicate cancer or lymphoma but he had been on steroids for a week so it could have been masked. Up until the pain set in, his personality was still in full effect. Please help....