Okay, even if these drugs end up doing nothing, today was still not a waste!
First of all, I paid a grand total of $10 lol. There was no charge for coming in which was awesome and I don't know if they were just being cool since I'm a former employee or what. But I took up almost an hour of their time!
And then I was written a script for the meds so that I could get them filled somewhere less expensive. Which is where the $10 comes in. But $10 for 3 months of meds? I'll take that. I was expecting to spend at least $100 today (and I was not looking forward to it).
Anyway the vet thought Juno sounded like a great candidate for Prozac. Which, I'd be surprised if someone thought otherwise. She helped start up a rescue organization where they almost exclusively take in the "unadoptable," animals with behavioral/medical problems. So a lot of the dogs they get in end up being put on Prozac and she told me most of the time, they end up seeing an incredible difference in them. I kind of forgot about the rescue work she does, so that made me more comfortable talking to her about this because she does have experience with dogs on these medications - extensive experience like a behaviorist, no, but probably much more than most general practice vets do.
She gave me a lot of suggestions too, most of which I knew but it helps to hear, ya know? Told me to work on Look At That (not in those terms but that's basically what she described), but to also work on attention games so that I can get her focus on me. She wants me to do hand targeting games. Go to parks and just sit on a bench and wait for the world to pass by so we can work on that. And my new rule for people is no talk, no touch, no eye contact (sounds like a Cesar thing? lol). People can have treats in their hand held down for her to take IF she chooses to come up to them, but otherwise they are to totally ignore her existence. No petting from above, only from the side or under her chin. And she thinks it might help too if she wears her Thundershirt when we go out.
I'm supposed to let her know in about a month how things are going.
Phew! That was long. It's a lot to take in and it's gonna be a lot of work, but hopefully we get some results.