Dog Arthritis Treatment

I’ve been to various doctors in my area, all trying different methods of treating me. My joints ache, my feet, ankles, knees, hips, wrists, and hands. My pain moves from joint to joint day to day or week to week, and is caused by exercise and humidity, as far as I can tell. They have apparently ruled out all forms of arthritis, fi-bro myalgia, strep infection, MS, lyme disease, and many of the more obvious syndromes, etc. They have done many blood tests, and have found nothing. I have been put on various anti-inflammatory medications and pain relievers, none of which do anything. The last doctor I went to told me I should do six hours of physical therapy a day, doing whatever hurts the most, to work through it. I opted not to do this, since it was exercise that initially brought this on, and I am still continuing to be active, it just SUCKS. Just to give you a full picture, I have also recently become allergic to my dog (I have lived with dogs my entire life), some horses (also around them all the time), the hair follicles on my legs have recently become allergic to any sort of skin product, lotion, shaving cream, or soap, and a last recent development of mine is that I cannot tan or burn. I am pretty white, as far as natural tone goes, and yet I can spend hours outside with minimal or no sun tan lotion and my skin will remain the same color. That is odd because I used to tan and burn. My family and I are now looking into a blood test for a vitamin D deficiency of some sort, but we do not yet know the test results. If ANYONE has any advice or if a doctor somewhere has a possible idea on what is wrong with me, your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!

My dog was prescribed rimadyl for arthritis when I took him to the vets recently with a slight limp on his back leg. !0 days later and he is totally lame at the back. He can’t stand or walk, is sleeping most of the time, whining and looking really depressed. Had xrays done yesterday and vet says arthritis is quite bad and to increase his dose of rimadyl.
My concern is how quickly this has come on, from a limp to almost total paralysis, even after taking medication that’s supposed torelieve tha pain and imflammation. He now hasn’t eaten or drunk for 2 days, the vet knows this and we have another appointment in the morning. He rally wasn’t very bad until he was prescribed rimadyl. I’m wondering if this drug could be contributing to his rapid deterioration? Anyone any similiar experiences of rimadyl? By the way he is a 6 year old German Sherpherd with no other health problems.
Thanks in advance to anyone that replies
He was on 100mg a day and vet just increased it to 150mg. He hasn’t mentioned side effects or blood tests, which I’m not happy about after researching it. But I’ll be talking to vet again tomorrow.

I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and psoriatic arthritis the doctor has me on Lyrica 450 mg. ,Zanaflex ,Clonazapam,Zoloft150 mg. ,Adderall 15 mg
,Trazadone 150 mg.Vicodin 500 mg twice day as needed for pain., and ultracett two pills every six hours as needed for pain… I have stoped taking zoloft and take only as needed pain meds. the clonazapam I do take just not sure why… anymore and the zanaflex is only when body is in bad spasms.. Im very debilitated with this dog on fibromyalgia… thank you in advance for your help on the electrical shock sensations…..when I turn my head sends electricity all over my face can’t stand it only what the heck is it? Going to doctor in a week to ask them…….just scared he will give me another medication. And do I need to take what looks to me a lot of medication… thank you for you help.
my email is angelives4him@yahoo.com feel free to drop me aline……..

he is a 7 year old boxer.

My dog has severe arthritis that began due to obesity (about 5 years ago?) and is now elderly (15). She is having a very difficult time. She is taking 2 higher dosage of a steroid, as well as pain medication that she has been on for a long time now. Has anyone heard of Petaprin? Does this actually work? She is a beagle, and about 30 pounds. I know Petaprin was specifically developed for large dogs, but read it can help all size dogs. Is this a gimmick? Does anyone really know?