Advice for degenerative arthritis.
Recently found out my 8.5 year old girl Denali has arthritis and bone chips in her wrists and shoulders.
She was fine, maybe had a slight almost unnoticeable limp in her front leg that I thought I was just imagining. Then she was really limping. We got x-rays, blood work, urinalysis, the works. The vet gave me painkillers and said surgery isn’t something they would do for this, that her bloodwork and kidneys were good. Oddly enough, her hips were fine.
I changed her over to a senior dog food, started feeding turmeric paste, green lipped mussel powder, and hemp oil. I give her carprofen in the morning and gabapentin if I notice she is more sore. She’s still eager to go on walks, eats and drinks fine, goes to the bathroom fine, and gets wild zoomies in the middle of the night. I just don’t know where we go from here.
Do we just wait? See if she gets better? Make her rest? For how long? Bone chips don’t go away right? We’re planning on moving across the country in a year. I’m worried how winter is going to go, how the move will go. We lost our other pup suddenly in October to seizures.
Any helpful advice or stories are welcome.