Most vets give some sort of pain medication to be take for a day or so
after surgery. You yourself wouldn't want to have surgery and not have
any medication afterward for pain.

Celeste

I have an 11 week old GSP and my daughter will shortly be getting an 11
month old GSP. We are looking into spaying (it has been quite awhile since
I needed to have a pet spayed). I will be waiting until mine is 6 months but
she will be getting hers done in about a month. Nowadays they give you the
option of pain medication. This is never something that was never discussed
with my previous pets. I was hoping to get some feedback on is this common?
Necessary? What is the current thinking? Any comments would be appreciated!

Kathy

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"kat" wrote:

Nowadays they give you the
option of pain medication. This is never something that was never discussed
with my previous pets. I was hoping to get some feedback on is this common?
Necessary? What is the current thinking? Any comments would be appreciated!

I opted for full IV fluids and pain meds, and Marcie did really well.
OTOH, they sent her home with pills for pain and she got pretty sick
from them, We gave one and stopped. That was a waste of money!

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

kat wrote:
I have an 11 week old GSP and my daughter will shortly be getting an 11
month old GSP. We are looking into spaying (it has been quite awhile since
I needed to have a pet spayed). I will be waiting until mine is 6 months but
she will be getting hers done in about a month. Nowadays they give you the
option of pain medication. This is never something that was never discussed
with my previous pets. I was hoping to get some feedback on is this common?
Necessary? What is the current thinking? Any comments would be appreciated!

Kathy



The current thinking is that it's better not to spay at all.

However, if you insist on taking out body parts please know that many of
the pain killers vets give out for pets are dangerous and I would never
use them. Look into something homeopathic like arnica.

And read this before spaying please.
http://www.naiaonline.org/pdfs/LongT...uterInDogs.pdf

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chardonnay9 wrote:


The current thinking is that it's better not to spay at all.

BZZZT - incorrect (as usual). Pyometra is a very real risk and
keeping a bitch intact forever is not considered to be a great idea.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Janet Boss wrote:
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chardonnay9 wrote:

The current thinking is that it's better not to spay at all.

BZZZT - incorrect (as usual). Pyometra is a very real risk and
keeping a bitch intact forever is not considered to be a great idea.


Go back in your cave! Time for new, accurate information, not scare tactics.

Go back in your cave! Time for new, accurate information, not scare
tactics.

Take your own advice. You should see the suffering a bitch goes through when
dealing with pyometra. It's potentially deadly. But you don't care. Blather,
blather, blather.

Chard is dangerous.

She also LIES and alters posts to fit her own need to pat herself on the
back.

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Janet Boss wrote:
BZZZT - incorrect (as usual). Pyometra is a very real risk and
keeping a bitch intact forever is not considered to be a great idea.

Oh, Janet - learn how to read! When she says "the current
thinking," what she's actually communicating is "the current
thinking among crackpots and uneducated nutbags." That
doesn't look too impressive and that's why she wrote "the
current thinking" rather than "research by x has shown
y." It's very much in the same vein as "Some people say
that chard tears the heads off chickens with her teeth."
Who says that, and do they know what they're talking about?
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

It's very much in the same vein as "Some people say
that chard tears the heads off chickens with her teeth."
Who says that, and do they know what they're talking about?

But it sounds so plausible...
--Glenn Lyford

I have an 11 week old GSP and my daughter will shortly be getting an 11
month old GSP. We are looking into spaying (it has been quite awhile
since
I needed to have a pet spayed). I will be waiting until mine is 6 months
but
she will be getting hers done in about a month. Nowadays they give you
the
option of pain medication. This is never something that was never
discussed
with my previous pets. I was hoping to get some feedback on is this
common?
Necessary? What is the current thinking? Any comments would be
appreciated!

Normally some pain meds are given pre-operatively (this is important). What
is being offered is the meds to go home on.

My own feeling is that the vets wouldn't make them optional, if they felt
that they were required. (they are offering them because they have some
misgivings about the necessity of them).

As to if its common, I'd say yes. Post operative pain meds are commonly
being offered. Necessary? I'd say probably not. At the clinic I'm at,
animals are routinely spayed, and they don't go home on any particular
medication (other than what is already onboard).

The current thinking in the vet schools is that post operative pain
management is very good thing, and speeds healing.

Hope that was somewhat helpful.

Dale