"Maison"
From: Little Dragon (UK)
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:19 AM

I have just found your web page but unfortunately too late for our Maison. Last weekend he was taken to the emergency vet in pain, he told us he had a pulled muscle and gave him two injections and said to go back to our vet the following day for some pain killers for him. The next day he was no better so we took him to our normal vet, who then diagnosed him with a slipped disc.

We were surprised as he didn't even want to do an x-ray, however as we have been with this vet for over 20years we trusted him. He gave us the Previcox with no mention of side effects or things that could happen. We gave him one tablet and 6 hours later he was drinking lots and being sick, we rang the vet and he said not to give anymore tablets but Maison would be fine.

Two hours after this there was a horrible smell in the room, we looked over and he was sitting is a pool of blood which was pumping out of his back end. We rushed him to the emergency vet again who said he most definitely didn't have a slipped disc as you cannot diagnose this without a x-ray and it was just a pulled muscle. She said the tablet had caused an ulcerated colon which caused internal bleeding and hemorrhaging. We were told to go home and she would give him a drip and antibiotics but he would be fine to come get in the morning.

At 2am that night we had a phone call saying he has got worse and at 4am he died. We are heart broken as you can imagine and completely in shock, we had a perfectly healthy dog with nothing but a pulled muscle and now he had died under horrific circumstances for nothing.

How can this drug still be prescribed!!!?
I just don't know how we will get through this grief and pain.

Claire