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Title: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: Hoppinchins on August 21, 2010, 04:12:05 PM
They gave pogo .1 cc, which is one syringe a day for pain. I think its a sedative.
Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: ABC Chinchillas on August 21, 2010, 04:38:38 PM
It is not a sedetive it is a pain killer
Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: jmdebb on August 21, 2010, 06:07:46 PM
yup, star is correct, some type of pain killer

when my Dillion [husky/shep] was alive he had arthritis and i started him on the lowest strength pain killer/arthristis meds they had, and when it didn't work, i just moved up to the next strongest.. medatacam was the last drug he was on, and it worked great. 

Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: Hoppinchins on August 21, 2010, 11:24:40 PM
Thanks both of you!
Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: Jenova on August 22, 2010, 03:54:55 PM
Yep, Cheech is on this. I don't use cc measurement in England (because we're not with the times!) but Cheech is on 0.33ml a day for her broken arm. Well she's got Loxicom but it contains the same active ingredient (Meloxicam I believe). It's a pain killer and anti inflammatory, usually used for dogs but chins and rabbits use it too. Although they need a lot more per kilo of their body weight.
Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: Hoppinchins on August 22, 2010, 04:08:52 PM
Thanks. I wonder if the vet tom will give him something else tom.
Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: jmdebb on August 22, 2010, 06:10:33 PM
yw. 

what happened to him that he is on this.. if you wrote a thread, i haven't been on lately, so i didn't see anything.

jean
Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: Hoppinchins on August 22, 2010, 11:53:27 PM
I did. He broke his back leg
Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: jmdebb on August 23, 2010, 08:22:58 PM
oh okay, i do remember reading somethign about a chin breaking his leg.. so then they were able to save it???? thats good if they did
Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: Hoppinchins on August 24, 2010, 09:21:17 AM
Its not fixed yet, so that may be a dif post. Mine has to have pins put in. He is still at the vet.
Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: Hoppinchins on August 24, 2010, 02:11:08 PM
 Mine has to have surgery again. THe blind pin didn't work, so they are going to try the straight pin
Title: Re: Metacam, does anyone know about this drug.
Post by: Jenova on August 24, 2010, 07:06:42 PM
Hope all goes well. Make sure they give you painkillers to take home and give daily or twice daily.