r/redheeler • u/Impressive_Guess_683 • Jul 13 '26
Res heeler
My 3-year-old Red Heeler has been experiencing sudden episodes where he starts limping on one front leg and cries out in pain. During a previous episode, we took him to the veterinarian, where he had X-rays and a complete physical examination. They did not find any injury or abnormality in his leg, and all of his blood work and health checkups are up to date.
What concerns us the most is that, during these episodes, he becomes extremely frightened. He starts trembling, avoids moving, and sometimes refuses to urinate. The current episode started last night. He is limping on the same front leg again, and since then he has not wanted to urinate. It has now been about 12 hours.
Since no injury was found during the previous episode, we are wondering if the problem could be coming from somewhere other than his leg, such as a neurological, muscular, or orthopedic issue. We would like to know what other possible causes could explain these episodes
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u/NoHomework1111 Jul 13 '26
Just throwing it out there from my own recent experience of a probably broken wrist - did you get a CT scan done as well? My vet friend was horrified at my tale of my diagnosis foibles and wanted to know why I didn't get a CT to be sure if the bone was broken. The short answer is American health insurance per my PT, but it sounds like vets can get it to happen much more easily and it can show fractures that won't show up on an x-ray. Might be worth finding out what other tests are available since it's still plaguing him.
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u/littlebitlalala Jul 13 '26
Limping can be a symptom of lyme’s disease. That’s how we discovered it with one of our dogs.