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metacam dosage

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Question
H Dana
my bunny recently had surgery and my rabbit savvy vet had his tech write down the metacam dosage to give once i stopped buprenex.the vet did tell me the metacam dosages are being increased,  i just looked at the paper and the amount i was told to give seems VERY high.
She weighs 4.1 lbs and i was told to give her 1.25ml per day {1.5mg/ml}. Does this sound appropriate to you?
thanks
J

Answer
Hi, Jeanine

Yikes.  That does sound VERY high.  The usual dose prescribed by our vets is 0.1-0.3mg/kg once every 24 hours.  Some vets go a little higher.  But even the high end of the dose would be only 0.36ml for your bunny.

You might want to ask your vet to be sure.  I know my vet told me you can go quite a bit higher with metacam, but I would not want to give you wrong information.

In my opinion, with pain meds, it's better to give as little as will make the patient comfortable, and not overdo.  

Just my two cents.

Dana