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Sully also gets a huge callus/buildup around the corn area on his toe. We usually take an emery board and sand it down. It seems to help relieve some of his discomfort. Corns are the biggest PIA . I hate seeing Sully gimp around as well, all because of a corn. It's amazing that something so small can cause so much trouble. Hugs to Turbo! I hope he feels better in a few days so that he can go with you to the Expo!

Sending lots of good thoughts and prayers!! :hope :grouphug

Sending lots more prayers to Brady!!! :hope :hope

Sending lots of prayers!!! :hope

BJ, sending lots of prayers and hugs to you and Black Jack. I'm praying that it's just a soft tissue injury.....

I agree that it looks like a seed wart/papilloma. Sebau has a few on her legs, but none where they bother her, luckily.

Sully has developed a persistent one that we keep hulled. In between hullings, we keep it filed smooth and put bag balm on it to keep it softer. They are the most frustrating little things!!!! GRRR! It's amazing how much of a pain something as small as a corn can be! --Manny, you shouldn't be getting bleeding like that from a corn. Sully's corns are bloodless, even when hulled.

Hoping everything is OK and it's just a false/inaccurate reading!

Just checking in and hoping everyone is feeling better!!

Baytril works well. When D had a UTI the other year, the first round was with cephalexin. He got better, but then in a couple weeks, it was back, and really nasty. The second round was an extended round w/ Baytril and that did the trick. I hope she's feeling better soon!!

Batmom could be right. When I did the Newsletter for our OS, picture file size was an issue. It was one reason I switched to Comcast (and sending big files via modem, well.. it sucks...). Even so, because of file size restrictions on the receiving end, it could still be an issue. Can you try sending each picture individually, since they are such large file sizes?

Checking in and sending more prayers... :hope

A lot of people do stop it for a few months in the winter since it gets cold here. If so, it's generally recommended to get a test before re-starting, every spring. I give mine year-round, it's just easier to stay on the schedule that way. I also usually order my HW medicine for 6 mo or a year supply at a time.

Keeping my fingers crossed and sending lots of prayers that it's true.... :hope :hope

Sebau never had any skin issues with Lyme, but if her body is trying to fight the Lyme, she could've picked up a secondary infection, i.e. a staph infection or something along the way. The 500mg doxy is the correct dose, and she should be on that for a good long time. (not just a 10 day course, at least a month. At times it's even given for 8 weeks). At least here, doxy is one of the cheaper antibiotics to buy (actually, just about the cheapest). She should start to feel better in a week or so, though she may need something extra for the skin issues.

I've been trying to help my old girl Sebau (13) be comfortable. We do the fish oil, glucosamine/chondroitin/MSM. I also added nice soft pillows (human pillows) to the dog beds to make them extra floofy and comfy. She really seems to like that! Most of the time she gets around pretty well, but there are some days where you can tell she's really stiff and sore. On those days I give her one of my tramadol. We've tried Deramaxx (did ok with her stomach, but didn't seem to help her feel any better) and rimadyl, and her stomach can't tolerate the rimadyl. The tramadol really makes her feel better, it's amazing how much she perks up. We are replacing our carpeting with hardwood (bamboo) including the steps, but we are buying a runner for the steps so that the pups can have traction.

Sending lots of good thoughts to you and Dee!

I usually stop at GNC on the way home from work to pick up the gluco/chondroitin/msm. (the MSM is separate, the gluco/chondroitin is a combo.) I also give it to the boys, I figure they're 8 now, and had racing careers (and D's got the nastiest twisted gnarly feet-- they don't seem to bother him, but they look awful. My old vet who retired also thought they looked awful and recommended glucosamine/chondroitin, but since he doesn't even seem to notice, he didn't need NSAIDS, though he may as he ages) I also try to keep her weight down (not easy-- one of her nicknames is Piggylina!! ) to reduce stress on her joints and keep her walking/moving. My old vet said that keeping her in shape was one of the best things I could do as she ages. She still loves her walks! Her main problem happens to be when there are big weather changes, she seems to get really stiff and sore, and of course when she first wakes up in the morning. I wish they didn't grow old so quickly. It's just not fair. It seems like just yesterday that she was a young pup.

She already gets glucosamine/chondroitin and fish oil (and has for years-- I DO think it has helped keep her mobile). I did give her stuff for her stomach when she took the rimadyl, but it didn't seem to help. She's taken it before years ago, but had never needed it for more than a couple days after an injury, and I guess also being younger, it didn't do this to her. Sometimes where I am feels like being in some podunk backwater.... the closest vet chiro/acupuncturist in MD is about 2 hours away-- if 95 and 495 have no traffic issues. There are LOTS in the DC area, but none up here (not really surprised though: I live in a place where most animals are lucky to even see a vet or live in a house. In general the attitude toward animals is totally different.)

Sebau is 13 now, and is getting stiffer and having a bit more trouble getting around. So far, we've tried metacam, deramaxx and rimadyl. The only one that seemed to make much difference was rimadyl, but after a couple days, she'll stop eating, so that just isn't a good option. (and she's a major PIG... girlie LOOVES her food) Her Lyme isn't flaring up (her titer is fine), so it's just age creeping up on her. What other options are there? When she's been having a bad day, I've been giving her one of my tramadols (standard generic tramadol, 50 mg) and it seems to give her some relief. Usually then after a couple hours she feels ornery enough to get into something or really boss the boys around! And I still haven't found a vet I like. A couple local ones now think I'm cuckoo for doing so much for a geriatric dog's arthritis, and think that a titer for Lyme was nuts. (I live in a rural area... in some ways very "well, she's old. What do you expect? Let her sleep, give her a warm spot, she's fine" )

Oh no, poor Bill!!!! :( Those pics are so sad! I hope he heals quickly!! Feel better Bill!! :grouphug

Yes, my old vet would treat if the titer was positive, even if the dog was asymptomatic. He would also treat if the dog was symptomatic but was NOT coming up positive. (The latter had actually happened to him when he had Lyme-- he had all the symptoms, but tested negative, so the doctors wouldn't treat him. He got REALLY sick, and said screw it and gave himself a nice long high dose course of doxy. And it worked.) Lyme is so prevalent in our area that if there was any possibility it could be Lyme, he would treat. In part because the treatment was safe and inexpensive, and the risks of waiting too long are high. He also did not like the vaccine for two reasons. One was the lack of efficacy. He guessed that at BEST it was maybe 60% effective. (Sebau was vaccinated, and it didn't do any good) The second was that a sizeable amount of dogs acquire all the symptoms of Lyme after vaccination, and that can be even worse to treat than Lyme itself.

Sebau has/had lyme. She was 6 or so the first time around, and presented with slight stiffness, and just being "off", no profound lameness or lethargy, she just wasn't "right", so off to the vet we went, and she had Lyme. She went on a long course of doxy (8 weeks), though she felt much better after just a week. She's had a few flares (or reinfections, hard to say) over the years, and all were treated with a long course of doxy at the dose of 10 mg/lb (so a 50 lb dog would get 500 mg/day of doxy for 8 weeks or so). She's now 13. We check her yearly w/ the snap, but also are very aware of the symptoms, and if she shows any, or is off in any way, in she goes.

Sully's corn makes me want to . Hulling it gives him great relief, but it always comes back, and it seems to come back so darned quickly!! It needs to be hulled on just about a monthly basis! I understand why it hurts too, the darned thing is as hard as a rock-- it must feel like walking with a big, sharp pebble in your shoe. OUCH! It's just so frustrating! I hate seeing him limp, and he doesn't like getting it hulled (and it has to be done often), but I'm not sure surgery is worth it, since often they just come right back.

Wonderful news!!! :pepper