My 2 year old GSD is going through his third bout with Panosteitis. He has been to the vet during each bout and is presently taking an anti-inflamitory drug, Deramax. I'm concerned with the possibility of stomach problems connected with its use. Does anyone have any advice on treatment other than using these drugs?
I'd appreciate hearing of others experiences with this painful problem.
I have a 11 month old male who is currently in the middle of a bout with Pano. Some days are better than others, you know how that goes. The vet gave him Rimadyl. I've been supplementing his diet with MSM and keeping the protein in his diet low. And, of course low activity. I've heard that it usually doesn't last past 18 months. Do you know if there's any truth to that?
Never-the-less, is the Pet-Cal a brand name or are you just reffering to a Calcium supplement?
You have my sympathy, Naida. I went through a bout of pano with my Tibetan mastiff bitch when she was about 6 months or so. She was pretty miserable, and, consequently, so were we. We gave her Ascriptin (an enteric coated aspirin) for the pain and Glycoflex to help proper cartilage formation and growth in her joints. I'm not by any means an expert on either the condition or GSD's, but, since it is a condition generally associated with rapid puppy growth, your dog seems a bit old for panosteitis. I found this GSD specific article. I hope you find it useful. Among other things, it covers some other conditions that may be mistaken for panosteitis. http://www.gsdhelpline.com/pano.htm
Thanks Bryan, I read the material that you recommended. It was very comprehensive and helpful. But as you said, Ingo is over the average age to be suffering from Pano and this is my main concern. I am hoping that there are others that have encountered this problem. Other than these three episodes of lameness, Ingo is in outstandingly good health. He is oversize for a GSD, comes from some top line German show dogs and is such a wonderful, intelligent great dog, that I would do most anything to help him. The fact that he is big, 28", @ 105 pounds could possibly be the clue to this disorder. He is on a raw diet and gets lots of running, walking exercise. If he were younger I would have less concern, I am hoping to hear from someone who has experienced pano in an older dog.
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Pet -Cal is a brand name, and I only know that I heard it will make the symptoms dissapear.
I don't know much about pano, but my WGS male had a short bout with it. I didn't do anything, and he had it very mild.
He was kept slim, the vet said that made the difference. He is WAY oversized too! 29 inches, but only 90 lbs...He was neutered at 9 mos due to being monocryptorchid.
No one ever said life was supposed to be easy, life is what you make of it!!
We give 15 month old Labrador with reoccurring pano glucosamin. It helped quite a bit - I was surprised. There was no way to keep this girl quiet or inactive since she lives with a Dane puppy & young shepherd and wrestles hard all day. She also gets a 1/2 pet tab plus vitamin with her meals. She went from limping badly to normal. It takes a while for the glucosamin to get in their system.
She is now on the same diet as our Dane which has less protein, as Chad said. She's still a muscular girl, we just don't want her to over develop. Since we have Danes we are used to oversized dog diets, bone & joint stress and this style feeding seems to have worked for her. It's very different from what I feed my shepherd. Hope this helps some.
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