Anonymous wrote:I was coming on to ask this. Our pup was spayed yesterday. She came home groggy but by evening seemed back to normal. I hadn't anticipated how hard it would be to hold her back from jumping around and playing on day 1.
The vet sent home an RX of trazodone. I plan to use it at the start at least to protect her from herself, but for how long?
This isn't my first dog but I haven't had a puppy in a while. And I came from a rural area where... well, to put in one way: people spent a lot less money on pets. My memory of getting dogs spayed 20 years ago was that it wasn't a big deal... and all my dogs turned out totally fine.
Am I misremembering? is this a difference in recommendations between an area that can pay/will follow up on medical care and one that can't? Should I use trazodone twice a day for 10 days?
Trazodone for a week after pain meds, then stitches come off, and back to normal.