Superficial Digital Flexor Tendon
I swear my little girl is just loving her vet so much that she wants us to be there every week. We are going to be broke in no time at this rate. We have been to the vet 8 times (7 if you dont count her cardiology appt) in the 10 weeks she has been with us.
This last one takes the cake. She was lifting up her rear left leg on occasion when out running around, but there was salt and ice on the ground, so we thought she was getting some between her pawpads since we would brush off her paws and she'd go running off again. About 2 weeks ago, I noticed that her ankle was swollen, so we went to the vet, but couldnt see our regular doctor because she wasn't in that day. The vet we saw looked at it and thought it was bursitis. She took an x-ray to be safe and make sure there wasnt a hair fracture or something going on with the bone and sent us off with Metacam (non steriod anti inflammatory).
On Tuesday when I got home from work, I could hear her ankle making a popping noise each time she put weight on it. Back to the vet we went on Wednesday morning and saw our regular doctor. She hauled back out last week's xrays and determined that there is a problem with Kaiya's superficial digital flexor tendon. She had an orthopedic colleague of hers check the xrays with an explanation of the symptoms and he would like to see her for either a MRI or ultra sound. (they have an ultra sound expert coming at the end of the month and can likley see what it is that is going on this way without doing an MRI. (ultrasounds are much less costly)
Have any of you experienced this issue with your dogs?
Would you wait until the end of March to get the diagnosis? Have you had experience with Ultrasound vs. MRI that you would defnitely recommend one over the other? Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
This last one takes the cake. She was lifting up her rear left leg on occasion when out running around, but there was salt and ice on the ground, so we thought she was getting some between her pawpads since we would brush off her paws and she'd go running off again. About 2 weeks ago, I noticed that her ankle was swollen, so we went to the vet, but couldnt see our regular doctor because she wasn't in that day. The vet we saw looked at it and thought it was bursitis. She took an x-ray to be safe and make sure there wasnt a hair fracture or something going on with the bone and sent us off with Metacam (non steriod anti inflammatory).
On Tuesday when I got home from work, I could hear her ankle making a popping noise each time she put weight on it. Back to the vet we went on Wednesday morning and saw our regular doctor. She hauled back out last week's xrays and determined that there is a problem with Kaiya's superficial digital flexor tendon. She had an orthopedic colleague of hers check the xrays with an explanation of the symptoms and he would like to see her for either a MRI or ultra sound. (they have an ultra sound expert coming at the end of the month and can likley see what it is that is going on this way without doing an MRI. (ultrasounds are much less costly)
Have any of you experienced this issue with your dogs?
Would you wait until the end of March to get the diagnosis? Have you had experience with Ultrasound vs. MRI that you would defnitely recommend one over the other? Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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My understanding is the MRI is much more precise than the ultrasound, but also much more expensive. I've never been able to afford one for my dog (so I may be wrong about how precise they are, but I think that's right).
anyway, I hope you're able to get it figured out!