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[Mosby]

1. can he walk ok?

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My dog ruptured a disk a couple months ago. No pain but there was swelling/pressure on the cord that was affecting his rear legs, the doctor put him on prednisone for about a month I think. He got better very quickly.

About a month after he ended his prednisone he started getting really bad pain attacks, instead of more pred (his liver enzymes were OK but not great at this point) the vet put him on metacam, which is some sort of nsaid for dogs. So far so good, we have him on a diet and that should help also, he got fat when we were working on dealing with his food allergies.

The vet should have done xrays to look for any major bone issues, you can see problem vertebrae and disks by the size of the gaps between them, it's not a bad idea to check out the hip joints as well. A specialist can do a more analysis using a MRI scan but that's a lot of money.

eta: Brock could barely walk when he ruptured his disk, he could not hold up his own body weight with his rear legs. The prednisone reduced the swelling and pressure on his spinal cord and he started showing improvement in just a coupe days, by two weeks he was more or less back to normal. If your daughters dog can't walk but is eating and drinking I would give it a week and let the pred really kick in. If the tramadol is not dealing with all the pain ask the vet if you can increase the dose, dogs can tolerate a lot more than the regular dose, usually you can double up the pills if your giving them every 8 hours.

[No Vested Interest]

2. So sad. Happened to our beloved dachshund too.

Sorry. I have no good answer.
It didn't end well.
My favorite dog, Polly,

[ThinkCritically]

3. Same thing happened to my sisters dachsund mix.

2 years ago he had the same issue. He was overweight and his constantly jumping in and out of their truck did it to him. At the time, the doctors were so worried that they almost put him down. But, they put him on medications and made sure to pick him up whenever he needed to get up to a high place. They also bought him steps to get up and down off their bed. It took several months of him "taking it easy" to get back to semi-normal. It's been 2 years now and he is 13 years old and he is still doing good. He isn't as mobile but he is back to playing fetch and just being a normal older dog. One thing you can do is start feeding senior dog food. They are formulated to help their bones, joints, and muscles.