After two weeks of metacam that was helping some to relief Troy's pain, but not enough, I took Troy to see Mark today. Mark reckons that it is arthritis setting in and did not recommend knocking Troy out at this moment in time, which I agreed with. He has given us new anti-inflamatory tablets to try Troy on and see how we get on. It looks however that this will be a long-term (probably permanent) thing for him.
I will now also look into accupuncture for Troy is simply short term pain medication does not help.
Troy has also been diagnosed with lenticular sclerosis, which results in a bluish hazey appearance of the lense in certain light and is an age related change of shape of the lense. I thought that I could see this, but wasn't sure, so got Mark to check it and he confirmed it.
Our big boy is getting older... which makes me feel so sad.
