PLEASE READ...as to what has happened to this Lab from having a rabies vaccine given in the shoulder. I am posting this with permission from the Labs owner Laura McCaw: Okay so I have a 22 month old Labrador Retriever (65 lbs) who has been in gun dog training for hunt tests. Around Jan 16th she came up with a limp in her right leg so trainer let her rest for about 3 days and her limp continued so I picked her up on Monday (20th) and took straight to the vet and they felt around and nothing was swollen however she showed more sensitivity in her right leg shoulder area. The vet said they wanted to try her on crate rest and anti-inflammatory (Rimadyl) for about a week to see how she responds to it before x-rays. She takes 1 1/2 tablet every 24 hrs and they are 100mg/tab. Anyways, it seems it has helped some and on Wednesday she did not have a limp at all but yesterday she was limping a bit more however we did not get to stretch her legs as much since it was 18 degrees out so she seemed a bit stiff at first. We do have an appointment with vet Monday morning for blood panel and x-rays. This girl is from a long line of hip/elbow OFAd lineage and will be getting hers done at 24 months however it does not seem as common to X-ray for shoulder OCD in labs but that is a slight concern of mine although our vet said we would have seen the onset at a younger age and off/on. She seems to think it may be in the tendons. My question for yall is has any of you dealt with shoulder OCD and if so what were the signs? Also any other ideas on what could be going on? Please post away so I can bring up to our vet on Monday. I have already done so many health clearances including EIC, CNM, PRA, CERF, Cardiac, Thyroid, Patella etc and will add the hips/elbows at 2 as long as nothing severe is going on with her shoulder. We had a titled stud lined up since November for future breeding and she is supposed to run her first hunt test in February however this injury has put a hold on things. If it were something like Shoulder OCD would she be responding to the Rimadyl so well like she is? The only time I see a good limp is if I have her crated or laying next to me for an extended period of time. Just worried about our sweet girl. Okay, I promised an update and I am just heart broken as this girl is like my child. So here is what the radiology report revealed: Left: The shoulder and elbow joint are normal, no periarticular remodeling changes are present, no active periosteal remodeling or lysis present. Right: There is moderate sclerosis and moderate well defined periosteal remodeling along the caudal margin of the proximal humerus and humeral head. The caudal cortical margins are indistinct, there is no evidence of osteolysis. The remainder of the humerus, scapula and elbow are normal. ------------------------ We will be getting a biopsy done. My heart is just torn. They said if not cancer than it can be fungal/bacterial. I just want to find out exactly what is going on as I cant bear guessing and I know they will work as fast as they can getting to the bottom of this but our kids are sad too. This girl has a huge impact on our family. she had a reaction to her rabies and developed a tumor and has Osteosarcoma and it has already spread pretty far. Prognosis is not good, chemo only buys her a couple more months but no outcome is good, right now we are just doing pain management. Well it has been known that over vaccination can and will cause cancer. I had her rabies end of December, they gave to her in muscle in her shoulder on right, she had a mild reaction and a small lump but was told it was normal, well 3 weeks late she came up with the limp, (osteosarcoma is a dangerous cancer as it moves fast, more so in young dogs), anyways it was said that since the vaccine was given where it could not distribute through body, but instead localized, that the healthy cells came to fight it like it was a bacteria but instead the vaccine killed the good cells causing a tumor which turned to osteosarcoma and by the time we finally did all the testing it has spread to chest area. They give her 6 months if that. After much research after we learned all this, I am starting to see this actually happens a lot, especially in cats which is why they give in tail area so it can be easy to remove if any reactions happen. Laura McCaw
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:13:43 +0000
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