I’m sure sorry about the bulging disk–I have a Basset and they have long backs and can have back pain not infrequently–a substantial amount may be due to disk disease.

Mine had pain several months ago that made it painful for him to walk and he stopped jumping (he likes to jump on walls all the time when we walk, and is good at it with those huge hips and shoulders. I used some Remadyl my neighbor gave me, although I had tons of Ansaids around of all types, and it seemed to help him. He got better before I could work him up, and I thought he had torn a back muscle or had a severe sprain. It could well have been disk impinging on nerve root–I hope it wasn’t. It hasn’t come back since–I hope it was a muscle sprain that got better.

I wish you the best of luck with yours.

In a person, I’d see Remadyl as just one more anti-inflamatory like the Motrin group and the 20 something other NSAIDS, (as many as there are teams in the NFL) and as long as they didn’t have an active ulcer, I wouldn’t hesitate to use it for intense itching–it’s a pretty safe glucocorticoid. Remadyl gets used by vets all the time as an ANSAID–it’s fairly expensive as well.

Prednisone worked well in my dog for itching the one time he got dermatitis from fleas until I got a quick handle on it using Advantix or if you prefer Frontline–pretty much the same although they both claim primacy.

The vet didn’t think of it, but I didn’t need a vet to figure out how to treat my dog. 99.9999999% of human medicines get on the market by being tested in dogs before they go through NDA’s to get to controlled hospital beds and then later to controlled patient trials in physician offices.

Whatever’s going on, I sure hope your dog(?) gets better.

say for something like intense itching from poison ivy tapered pred can