I have hEDS, too.

As a kid, I identified that there was something up with our joints in my family. I just didn’t know the name for it for another 30-ish years.

@@CynthiaPrice79 I started having severe pain in my legs when I was 5. The doctors told my parents it was growing pains. My dad massaged my legs up until I moved out of the house. When I was 11 the rheumatologist put me on Advil every 6 hours every day no matter if I was hurting or not and this was back when it was still just a prescription. When I was 12 I started dislocating my shoulder when I would swing the bat in softball. When I was 26 I was in the hospital because I have a mitral valve prolapse and when I get sick my heart rate goes crazy and I keep going into A-Fib. I had a doctor then tell me he thought I classical connective tissue disorder but there wasn’t anything they do about it. Of course by that time I was dislocating shoulders, wrists, fingers, ribs, and knees. Then when I was 36 I was diagnosed with brain cancer. At one point my oncologist sent me to see a rheumatologist because I had a positive ANA and he diagnosed me with EDS. I started crying. I told him, I have been living with chronic pain since I was 5 and nobody has ever really listened to me. I hate with a passion that I passed this to my daughters and some of my grandkids.

Most people would not rush to go under the knife, wouldn't they?

The problem is that it won’t get easier if you wait.

Surgery can also be very expensive. Not everyone can afford it, so who knows what the full reason is.

I agree. I think there's going to become a time when the surgery is required but I understand the owner wanting to prolong that as long as possible. Dr Scott is amazing.

@@tanialangford6662 I get the emotion behind it, but logically, it makes everything worse. The surgery gets less and less safe as time passes.

@@CynthiaPrice79 agreed the brace is only really a temporary fix, I still believe it will deteriorate perhaps more slowly with the brace. Hopefully she’ll get the surgery done while the dog is young and before it reaches the point where surgery is no longer an option because it has deteriorated too much.

I Totally agree with you but i suppose we don’t know their financial situation etc. I know id follow the orthopaedic surgeons suggestion of fusing the joints esp as Scott said that ultimately it’s probably what she’ll need and the poor dog will be older and maybe less able to tolerate the surgery.

This drove me crazy the first time it was on. Poor dog is going to continue to suffer.

I agree, this poor baby is gonna suffer the pain since they’re not doing the surgery option 😢.

Yeah, I have a dog with hyperextending hawks and they keep telling me not to do the surgery until he will not bear weight on it and it’s like no… he is not happy and braces don’t work because he ends up with pressure sores- so I am betting the same thing will happen to her and then you have to wait for those sores to heal really good before you bother with surgery because there’s no extra skin on the legs.

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