Previcox Emails
"Red" Hi. I was doing some research on Previcox and came across your website. My husband and I recently took in a friend's Pitt Bull so that it wouldn't be put to sleep by animal control. On the 5th his vet prescribed him Previcox to treat arthritis in his left leg from an accident he was in about a year ago, he was hit by a car. I noticed that he started throwing up when I gave him the medicine and called a friend of mine, who is a vet tech to ask her if vomiting was a side effect on the medication and she told me no. After he started throwing up so much from it I stopped giving it to him but yesterday his leg gave him so much trouble that he couldn't even walk on it. My husband had to pick him up and carry him down the stairs just so that he could go outside and do his business. Since my friend told me that vomiting wasn't a side effect, I decided to give him just half a tablet so that he could have some kind of comfort. Today, we took him back to the vet and found out that either his spleen or pancreas has ruptured and his stomach is full of blood. I don't know if this is caused from the medication or not. I was wondering if you possibly knew anything about it. Could his problem be caused from this medicine that was given to him? I honestly don't know what kind of condition he was in before he was put in animal control nor how he was treated. I do know that he got really sick about a month before he was put into animal control and he was never taken to the vet for it. I have no idea how he was treated when he got to animal control, so, it's possible that it might not even be from the medicine, but after reading your testimonial, I thought I would at least ask. Update: 6/23/2008 Hi Mel. I know you wanted an update on Red and I'm sad to say that we had to put him to sleep. It turned out that he had bone marrow cancer and he had a tumor on his heart. He passed away on the 2nd of June. I don't think the medication had anything to do with it. |
