Last year April we rescued an 8 month old greyhound. Everything went quite well, until July last year. He started getting back pain (no trauma). We took him to the vet but all the x-rays and blood tests were clear. They put him on Rimadyl and sent us home. He did not improve and we went back. They did a bunch of tests again and put him on some other anti inflammatories and pain medication and a big dose cortisone. He improved and finally he was back to normal by September last year. He was fine until January this year when he suddenly stopped playing and started becoming slow and grumpy and lost his desire to play or run. We took him to a specialist where they did many tests and finally saw some slight spots on his lower back on the xray. They realized that it was most likely a secondary infection from the Parvo he had as a puppy when he was rescued (long before we got him). They put him on a high dosage Gabbapentin, Rimadyl and Cephalexin. It helped for a while but he has been getting sore again in the last few days. We have a bit of a problem taking him to the vet as he absolutely hates it, has to be muzzled and sedated and does not cope well with the whole diagnosis process so it's traumatic for us all. We are running out of money from all his medical expenses (doing scans and x-rays every 3 weeks but with no improvement on the "spots" so far). Vincent is now almost 20 months and has been in pain for the largest part of his life. We are at wits end. Has anyone had any experience with something like this or any advice? When he is so very sore he becomes very snappy and has even bitten me twice (only bruising)....
