1.5 yr old English Mastiff limping for 6 months it's not dysplasia?

Question

She is from a strong line. X-rays show perfect hips and elbows. Limps most of the time. The limp sometimes changes form right to left back leg. Vets ruled out dysplasia and D-pano. What else can it be?

Answer 1

You should have some blood work done on your dog, to make sure it's not something like Lyme's Disease. Lyme's Disease comes from dear ticks....they are very, very small and hard to see on dogs as well as humans. One of the symptoms can be joint pain. I have a Jack Russell (Sadie)...she would limp and be stiff and would yelp once in awhile. I had blood work done on her and come to find out she had Lyme's Disease. The vet gave her antibiotics and it cleared it up. I have blood work done on her at least once a year now. I know some people would say that's a little extreme but we live in a wooded area and are loaded with ticks and Sadie is 16 years old now. I use "Frontline Plus" but sometimes it just doesn't kill all the ticks. I wish you all the best. Good Luck!

Answer 2

It is very hard to "rule out" pano. It is usually diagnosed by a lack of something else being found.
I would have the hip and elbow films sent to OFA for a pre-lim screening. They have more experience reading films from specific breeds than most vets do.

Answer 3

Hello,

Being as the dog is only a year and half. I would rule out arthritus. Sometimes these large breed dogs grow to fast from the kind of food that we feed our dogs. And often this causes pain in the limbs as they are weakly developed. This may be the case. I would suggest a full cat scan to rule out any turmors as this is also a problem with this breed. Even the smallest unseen tumor my develop into some thing bad. Call the breeder speak to the breeder demand more background informaiton to help you with your dogs problem/

Blessings,

Answer 4

Your canines might want to in all likelihood be epileptic. it really is puzzling on him and he's scared afterwards, yet he received't experience something in the course of the seizures. i'm epileptic also and would assure you that in seizures there's no expertise or sensation. Afterwards there is dizziness and a difficulty in wondering. there might want to correctly be some muscle discomfort from pulling muscle mass. You vet might want to correctly be able to provide you medicine which will shrink or perhaps get rid of the seizures. because he has in straight forward words had 2, spaced a month aside, the probabilities of looking a effective remedy are very sturdy.

Answer 5

I had a wolfhound who did the same thing. Vets did x-rays and he was also clear. Their opinion was that it was tendons and muscles - he was a big boy, 170 lbs., so he went through a massive growth spurt. He had his exercise curtailed for a few months. Walks were ok, but romping and running with the other dogs was not allowed. He outgew it - hopefully your mastiff will, too.

Answer 6

Hate to say it, but have they done a CT scan to look for tumors? My beautiful Chesapeake Bay Retriever died of cancer at a very young age. He was limping, and we tried Rimadyl for a few weeks thinking he'd just jumped off a piece of furniture and landed wrong, twisting his forepaw. When that didn't help, I took him in for a regular X-ray, which missed it. It took a CT scan to uncover the small tumor on his shoulder, which spread quickly to his lungs and took him from me three months short of his sixth birthday.

Answer 7

Have you seen an ortho vet? They are usually better trained than regular vets. How about a cruciate tear?

Answer 8

talk to other vets. get a second opinion. there is no way anyone on here could know that.

Answer 9

did you check her spine?