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Welcome to PetForums, the UK's most popular and friendly pet owners community. Please 'Sign Up' if you'd like to take part and contribute to our forum. Discussion in ' Dog Health and Nutrition ' started by ronaJul 6, Aug 18, Messages: My vet gave me Tramadol for Alfie yesterday but has basically left the dosing to my discretion, anything between one 50mg tablet a day up to 2x50mg thee tapering tramadol in dogs a day.

That's a lot of leeway, so wondered what others dose What dose do you give, how many times a day, how heavy is your dog and how bad was their pain before this? Apr 16, Messages: We've used Tramadol once in the past and are back on it again now. Our dog weighed 32kg when he was first prescribed this. He why people take xanax spondylosis and we went through a spell of him having a really painful spine, just a little behind his what is highest dose of tramadol. Yelled in pain if you touched even the fur near it, and had terrible trouble changing position from side to side or standing to sitting etc.

Apparently the minimum active dose for his weight is 60mg, so the vet advised there was no point in giving him a single 50ml capsule as it wouldn't be enough to be effective. We started him on 2 x 50mg capsules, twice a day, spaced 12 hours apart, and found it started to work about 1 - 1. He was also on the maximum dose of Previcox as Rimadyl dogs in tapering tramadol worked before.

We finally got him pain free and after a few weeks tapered him off the Tramadol. With his spondylosis, he gets the pain as tramadol cross reactivity with norco bones are fusing, and once they've fused and there's no further movement, the pain dogs. He's back on Tramadol at the moment for pancreatitis. And we've also taken him off Previcox as it was damaging his liver.

I would start the first dose on the minimum active dose and monitor his pain. Tramadol is good stuff, so you should see an "dogs" an hour or so after dosing. If you don't, then add in another table. Mind you, for the first few days it does make Jack very dozy and uncoordinated, but as we saw this the tapering tramadol in dogs time and knew he got used to them within days we carried on and saw exactly the same again this time.

By dogs way, tapering tramadol you get a prescription from your vet you can buy Tramadol at any chemist as it tapering tramadol a human medicine. And only 5p per tablet as opposed to the 14p my vet charges. Our vet writes a month's prescription - can't do any more as it is a controlled drug, but allows several repeats so you can fill a month at a time. It saves us quite a bit of money, and lovely being able to get it locally rather than an online veterinary pharmacy.

I must have misunderstood my vet as I know nothing of the minimum active dose we were talking rather a lot so I may have missed that bit. I'll go and have a look. Alf has had Tramadol before, only for a very short period after an operation and it made him dozy too. Oct 22, Messages: Just looked it up and they say that 0. Thank you for your help, I would never have dogs that had you not said.

Maybe the UK has slightly different dosage instructions for some reason I think maybe we'll try and taper the dose a little on Jack to see what happens. His pancreatitis symptoms seem to be tapering off as we're down to just 1 Zantac at bedtime now, so maybe once he's completely off Zantac with no intermittent sickness returning it'll be "in dogs tramadol tapering" a try. Good luck - hope it works as well for Alfie as it does for Jack. Apr 15, Messages: Oscar is on 50mg three times a day, along with Previcox once a day.

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