On Saturday I think our Buster Boy got into an old medication - Meloxicam. There were only a few left in the bottle and o found 2.. I don’t know if he ate one. Last night he started vomiting. This morning between 7am and 10 he vomited at least 6 times. All day Sunday he seemed fine, was his usually hyperactive self. Right now he’s sleeping - breathing okay - hasn’t voomitted in over an hour... so hoping it’s out of his system. I removed his food and plan to give him rice and bland shredded chicken - thoughts? I would take him to the we vet - but I can’t afford more testing right now...

My dog scarfed up my 7.5 mg meloxicam when I dropped it. He is 10#. I'm disabled. Vet is 90 miles away. What can I do for him?

My pup is 8. He’s having some kind of potty problem. Vet expressed his swollen anal glands yesterday. He’s eating ok. Walking some. Went out to potty. Did some. Now he is shaking and panting badly. He had a meloxicam dose yesterday and today. I have another dose for tomorrow. Can I give it to him for pain? Can I give him some ibuprofen or something else.? He weighs 5 lbs.

Had an English mastiff (~150 pounds). Vet prescribed 2 7.5 mg meloxicam pills, twice a day, for several weeks. A couple weeks into treatment he got very sick, including dark tarry stool and dizziness. He died of kidney and liver failure at the veterinary office a few days ago. My understanding of meloxicam is that an appropriate dosage is much lower than what they had him on (30 mg per day for weeks). Is it possible/probable that meloxicam overdose was the cause of this dog's death? He was healthy and only 5 years old, with no other health problems of note.

My Jack Russell was spayed 4 days ago. She was given metacam for pain relief. She weighs 4.6kg and I gave her 4.5 on the syringe as instructed once day on fri and sat. She then developed watery diarrhoea, increased thirst and went off her food, was lethargic and depressed. I obviously put this down to side effects of metacam. Today (day 4 post op) she has started with bloody diarrhoea, bright red blood. Background history, she has elevated liver enzymes which have been investigated by CT scan, liver biopsy and repeated blood work every 2 months which show deteriorating liver function ( but cause unknown as yet, biopsy suggested secondary causes rather than primary liver disease) she also had 2 phantom pregnancy episodes which is why we took the decision ( on advice of 2 vets) to get her spayed at age of 8yrs old. A recent US scan of her abdomen showed a mildly enlarged adrenal gland? We are considering investigating her for atypical Cushing disease once she recovers from her spay operation and we recheck her bike acid bloods despite her not having any clinical signs of it

I am shocked that the FDA and Health Canada continues to have this drug on the market given its terrible track record. Our 14 month old Golden Retriever was administered Metacam after a minor procedure. This was 7 years ago this week! Nearly full Kidney shutdown; she then had to have nearly two weeks of IVs, others drugs and liquid food. Cost was nearly $20,000. To this day, she has to have blood test check up on her kidneys, she is on a highly restricted diet prescribed by two internal specialist. Boehringer Ingelheim Canada settled with us for the initial medical costs, but I don’t understand why they have developed a screening test for reaction to this drug. Please, please take the time to talk to your vet and see if they know of way to quickly check for serious reactions. My dog is still with us because we would not give up on her...

My husband brought our dog to the Vet on Wednesday because she was limping from her arthritis in her front wrists. The vet prescribed Metacam (meloxicam). It made her very lethargic, confused and unsteady. By Saturday morning her hind legs would not work at all. We gave her the prescibed dose and no more. I refused to give her her does this morning and right now it is 230 pm and her hind end is still failing. The vet this morning said it's old age and she never heard of this reaction to this medication. I know our dog is old and would not be with us much longer but I believe this medication has robbed us of the little time left. I am not sure if her hind legs with improve, if not we will need to put her down this week because its absolutely cruel to watch what has happened to her in 3 doses. Do give this medication to your pets. This medication has taken any quality of life left in our dog, bringing her to her death.

Dazie was spayed a week ago today. When we picked her up we where given Meloxcam, told to start her on rec dosage next day for 3 daysas she had already been give that days dose.Day .2.still uncoordinated, gave her the Meloxicam . Day .3. about the same started to worry, but gave her the medication anyway. Day .3. Something very wrong took to the vet, they changed the medication sent her home. Day .4. back yo the vet, advised very sick dog would have to go one a drip. .7. days later she is still on a drip, she has kidney frailer ####DO NOT GIVE YOUR DOG THIS MEDICATION #######

So I’m not sure if it’s an overdose or just a bad reaction but my dog is a 5-6 pound chihuahua, she’s never had this injection before but my vet gave her a 0.11 dosage of metacam. She suffers from pinched nerves every now and then. We recently got home and she can’t stay awake like she’s fighting sleep, when she stands she seems to be a bit uncoordinated, and her back legs will slowly fall, and she’s shaking and drooling. I’m hoping these are normal symptoms but I’m really worried. She’s only had one dosage and i was never told to give another