Need Medical help.......
I have a two year old Male GSP.
In May of last yearhis left ankle and foot swelled up. At that time I put ice on it and in a day every thing looked good. The thought was that he smacked it on the front step. (he was very clumsy) lol. Well a month later the same thing the ankle swelled up and he would not walk on it. So I Took him to the vet. They did some X rays but found nothing wrong. Put him on some inflammatory meds. every thing was fine for a while. Then the same thing left ankle swelled. The vet took blood and some tissue samples. Found nothing out of the ordinary. Sent the info to Iowa sate. And they looked at it and could not find any thing wrong. But we put him on a Joint support plus med, and a month long worth of Firocoxib. Well hunting season started and His foot looked good. So we hunted. I kept an eye on his foot. No problems. Then five days ago his foot swelled again. It has been over 9 months since his last ankle problem. But the vets office has run out of opinions. We did put him back on the Firocoxib. But it is not helping yet. been 4 days now.
I have been calling around to different vets in the area but they just want to do the same tests. Should I??
This dog lives in the house with us sleeps on the floor. And the kids give him lots of running. Plus the training we do. The problems never seems to happen after a hard day of training. Just out of the blue. This last time he was fine the night before we did no training just a lazy day. The next morning his foot was swollen twice the size.[/align]
Any help would be great. [/align][/align]Sorry this is so long just trying to give all the info I could.
This is really hard on the family because we hate to see him in pain, and we cant find a fix.[/align][/align]Thanks
Jeff[/align]