sorry its been awhile since an update, been very busy trying to help our Molly. Well things were going well and then that weekend she had a bout of gas in her GI probally from the medicines. This really scared us so we went to the specialist. They kept her for a week trying different meds and she'd have good days and bad days. Sent her home on presidone and rymidal. He didn't think it was a back issue and really thought it was idiopathic hypertesia. Sorry if my spelling is bad. Or an autoimune diease targeting her back muscle. He thought we could maintain her on those meds. Once home she was ok but just not herself. Still sensitve to touch and complaining some getting up and down. So I contacted our old vet who has moved out of town to take a look. She didn't like the combinaton of meds and high dosage. So we switched to Tramadol and Presisdone and working to get her off the presidone. We did a blood test which test for muscle enzymes to check if the other vet was right or not and those results came back that her muscle enzymes were good. Others were good, liver, ect. After x-rays she really thinks its a pinched nerve in her neck as there is a spot that looks questionable. We did urine and found a bladder infection so we are treating that as well. We then went to a dog chiroprator and have had 2 sessions with them, chiropractor and acupunture. He said she was pretty bound up in her back, she was pretty sore saturday as he expected, monday she had a pain attack at the vet where her heart races and she pants excessivly. We've had a couple of these at home too. We got her calm and he did some acupunture injections that work well on horses and good success in dogs. Well its been a rollercoaster of good days and bad and she's has a real hard time laying down and getting up. Once she's laying down she is much more comfortable after the injections. However, she just lays there out of it. We haven't had a pain attack since so thats good. However if she gets to laying on her side she just can't seem to get her legs underneath her to get up and if we help she screams when we touch her. Once up she does good but seems weak. She'll walk around for about 30 min doing her business. Yesterday she refused to eat, we started on a probiotic, and pepcid and she's now eating rice, chicken, cottage cheese. Again we think the meds are giving her stomach upset. We've been fighting diarhia for a couple weeks. I've heard the chiro adjustments take a few times to see results and she might get worse before better but i'm just not sure how much we are helping her. They xrayed her hips and he said they are pretty worn out and she is over compenstating and its taking its toll on her back. I'm worried for sure, she was a little better today and i'm hoping for more improvements as we do more treatments.
