Heartbreaking. I bawled from that initial commercial video; hit me personally as having gone through many very similar situations with doctors, and also tha...
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Heartbreaking. I bawled from that initial commercial video; hit me personally as having gone through many very similar situations with doctors, and also that i missed the signs for so long in my own dog.
I am excited to find those pain tracking pages and metrics to use/offer my clients.
I work with some rescues and it's really sad how much pain some appear to be in and how rarely seem to notice or document this. On the other hand, I worry that documentation of these problems inadvertently punishes clients due to issues of cost etc, not to mention making a dog less "adoptable ".
I found the lack of evidence for glucosamine/chondroitin interesting, after 2 weeks I saw a great improvement in my dog, not in the accute symptoms but the ones that I hadn't even realized were symptoms of pain since they happened incrementally. I wonder if it treats some other issue correlated to arthritis?
I found also that 1-2mg of CBD oil 2x a day made an even bigger improvement (he's 5.5kg). He has only had one acute arthritis incident "bad pain days" since and it was after he jumped and fell awkwardly... I know it's anecdotal and I'm not a vet (I did spend a LOT of my childhood on a vet practice and learned a few things) but I swear he's doing better now at 11 than he was at 8.
It also appears that the CBD could be helping his heart murmur? When I forgot his CBD at the farm once and he went without for a week his symptoms really spiked. One online source said the anti-inflammatory effects might help this... I really look forward to seeing more studies and literature to find out more!
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