Senior dog arthritis: What are safe pain relief & supplement options?

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13 yr old standard poodle has arthritis. Taking nutramax Dasuquin. Want to give him chondroitin sulfate. What do you recommend. Any pain mess without side effects. Cbd? Pet's info: Dog | Poodle | Male | unneutered | 11 years and 8 months old | 70 lbs

Dr. Strydom, DVM · Accepted Answer

CBD has not been studied enough in animals for me to make a recommendation. You can use it if you want but no studies have been done to determine appropriate dosing, etc. The companies making this CBD oil have no clue. The people I know that have tried it report that all it does is make the animal sleepy. It is not actually helping the arthritis. If Ciggy is in that much pain I would much more recommend a NSAID and/or pain medication combination as treatment (like Rimadyl and Tramadol combination). We know those help. I don't know which Dasuquin product you are using but they all already contain chondroitin sulfate. If you are not using the one that also contains MSM I would recommend switching to that one as MSM is a natural anti-inflammatory. Extra chondroitin is not likely to help. https://www.1800petmeds.com/Dasuquin+with+MSM+for+Dogs-prod338143.html You can also talk to your vet about Adequan injections: https://www.1800petmeds.com/Adequan+for+Dogs-prod10721.html?Ntt=Adequan+for+Dogs Any MANY, MANY clients have switched their dogs over to the Hill's j/d diet with miraculous results. You may want to consider it. You likely would not need all the other supplements: http://www.hillspet.com/en/us/products/pd-canine-jd-dry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Yc0DP5Rvw Hope this helps. Best wishes.

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