
Originally Posted by
Kate H
My own (strictly layperson's!) feeling is that starting Zitac and stopping scratching is a coincidence, and the scratching may have had some other, simpler, cause, as you originally thought. Scratching doesn't necessarily mean SM - many of the dogs on this forum with SM have never scratched (except at the odd flea, of course!), and those that do seem to have intense scratching, often 'air scratching', especially in moments of excitement and when out walking, not simply when being stroked.
Kate,Oliver and Aled
PS If you feel it might be CM/SM, you might consider a mini-scan, which is very much cheaper than a full scan (£250 or so rather than £2000!), which would tell you whether SM is present though not the full extent of any problem. Chestergates referral hospital, near Liverpool, do their mini-scans by sedation not anaesthetic, which is a major reason why I take my dogs there. A mini-scan has been enough to diagnose them as having SM - after that, you're only going to treat the symptoms anyway.
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