Does anyone have a dog start acting odd after taking Rimadyl? The lab work came back OK but since my 17 old pit mix started taking Rimadyl, she goes off by herself at home which she never used to do. The vet doesn't see anything wrong. Her eating and bathroom habits are all normal. She'll even go off into another room to sleep all night which never happened before. Previously it was more like we'd wake up to her snoring and realize she's laid across our legs for half the night!
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It depressed my dog also and I wont let him take it anymore.
Yes. We had almost exactly the same experience with our previous dog. He definitely was not himself when taking Rimadyl, so we took him off it and started him on Glucosamine and Condroiton for his mild arthritis.
Thanks for the responses! I was pretty concerned the first few days.
She's already on glucosamine/chondroitin. Luckily she does seem to have picked up a little in the last 2 days but I was hoping for a bit more. Not sure if we'll continue the Rimadyl yet.
Amazingly, she still wants to jog whenever we can but I have to be very careful on the terrain because she has one bad hip and if she loses her footing at all; she goes down pretty hard.
We may still do a surgical procedure to denervate the hip joint capsule which is supposed to have very good results with almost no recovery time. Otherwise she's in amazing shape for her age!
You can always "google" (or other search) Rimadyl. That will allow you to read about the drug, usages & side effects, including warnings.
My vet took my dog off it. If you look it up, there are deaths associated with this drug as well as other symptoms. Pfizer, the maker, didn't want to say that death could be caused so FDA pulled their ads. It does say it on the box now, but from what my vet said, it's a dangerous drug.
I'm not an expert, but an animal usually goes off to be by itself like that when it doesnt feel well.
Best of luck. You're a good parent. (smile)
My dog Gretchen was on it for a year. She also became a bit antisocial, however, we did have her for an extra year before we had to put her to sleep. I am grateful for that!
I,too, threw out the Rimadyl and put them on Glucosamine and Condroiton. I found that I can buy 100 tablets for $9.99 at Trader Joe's.
I am a cat person, and have little experience with dogs, but if she was a person, I'd say she wasn't feeling well, or was depressed. This sounds like a side effect of this medication. Are there alternatives?
Hi, is she taking the rimadyl for her hip? My moms baby has to take it for his back legs. I believe since the vet has found nothing wrong she is probably finding it a lot easier to relax without the pain now so she takes advantage of that fact. The medicine works wonders, my sister is a vet tech at the humane society and my moms baby couldn't even use his back legs so he takes it all the time.
That is happening right now with my dog. I keep finding him staring against blank walls. Or just sitting in the middle of the hallway. I decided he has to be really super high or something. He only has to take it a couple of days, so I'm going to wait it out. But I'm glad to hear others have had that issue.
Yes Im glad you posted I was getting very concerned at night when my Doberman gets her dose of Rimadyl ( recently prescribed)she starts acting very strange almost in a panic and cant settle, Then shell go downstairs to sleep which is not her at all. She usually sleeps in her bed in our room. I hadnt put it togeather until your post thank you
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