First time dealing with a seizing dog and scared!
This morning I woke up to my 3 year old corgi seizing. She had 3 within 30 minutes and my vet told me to bring her on in. The doctor said they would give her a shot of anti seizure and watch her overnight. I was wondering if anyone knows if the doctor will put her on medication or tell me to keep on watching her and document her seizures if she has anymore. I don't know her history since she was a rescue and worried that she may have a health issue causing this.
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Permalink Reply by Taylor K on
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She is doing really good. No seizures but she is dragging. She is very tired and just laying around all day and has no excitement in her.
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Markley on
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I know it is VERY scary to see this. I've had two dogs with seizures. They can live a happy life, even with the seizures. My German Shepherd mix, wasn't supposed to live past 6, she lived to be 11. My newfoundland lived to be 13. They both were on phenobarbitol and potassium bromide. My german shepherd was worse than my newfoundland, she would cluster seize and periodically have to go in and spend the night while they got the seizures stopped with medication. My newfoundland seized a ton one day and I didn't know it (I worked nights and was sleeping), he almost died, but I got him to the vet, we transferred him to the vet school in Ames, he stayed a week. He had amnesia afterwords, and didn't recognize us (which was sad), but he learned to love us all over again. :-) So it can get expensive, but doesn't have to. I think my situations are rare...most dogs do just fine on phenobarbitol.
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Permalink Reply by Allison on
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I'll pass all this info on to my husband. We both have been super worried.
Romeo just turned 7. He was the runt of his litter, other than one round with pancreatitus, he's been perfectly healthy. We are ready to do MRI's, CAT scans, etc just to make sure epilepsy is the culprit. I don't want the poor little guy to be in pain or have something else wrong that we don't know about.
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I did an MRI on my shepherd, she just had epilepsy. My newfoundland had gotten hit by a car when a puppy (before I adopted him), and had both front legs broken, his jaw broken, and his teeth all knocked out--so I figured his were due to the head trauma. In the case of my shepherd though, it helped to relieve my fears of a tumor...
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Permalink Reply by Vee Luther on
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This weekend, I helped a friend take a Border collie to the emergency vet a hour away...seizure, drooling, etc . I guess border collies have a special problem with ivermectin and other wormers and she had wormed her horses 2 days before. Her collie ate some manure and got the meds that way...$1200 later, the dog is fine. It was Quest brand horse wormer, by the way.
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Permalink Reply by steve smith on
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It is very scary. Coco had several and I saw only one. She was on the floor and I put pillows all around her so she would not hit her head on the furniture. When it was over less than 30 seconds she had her ears back like she thought she did something wrong and I told her she was ok.
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Lilly had 4 seizures this morning. 3 together that lasted a total of 6 minutes and 1 at the vet that lasted for 30 seconds. Has anyone dealt with seizures that hardly gave your pet a break in between? She got not even a 30 second break in between the first 3. Poor thing was so tired and disoriented afterwards. Help please, should she be okay?
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Permalink Reply by Ellen Andersen on
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I have no advice for you, Taylor, but healing wished being sent your way from my corgi crew. It sounds frightening.
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Taylor, when the seizures happen back to back like that, without a period of the patient coming to inbetween, is considered status epilepticus, which can be life threatenting. At this point, I always took my dogs to the vet so they could give them meds to stop the seizures. Good luck! I know it's very scary.
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Permalink Reply by Jill M on
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http://www.canine-epilepsy-guardian-angels.com/
http://www.canine-epilepsy.net/
Taylor- the above links helped me many times when my Payton started having seizures at age 5. As scary as it maybe this is not the end of the world. CHeck these website for very valuable accurate information. So you can make educated decisions with your vet as to what is best for you and your baby. jill
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Permalink Reply by Bev Levy on
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Hoping for the best for you and your corgi! My Standard Poodle had mild epilepsy and lived to 18 years. They have medications that often help so hang in there. It looks bad but they don't seem traumatized by it at all. Hopefully your vet will be able to help her.
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She is getting worst now and I am so scared and don't know what to do. She is still at the vet but had several more there. In a matter of 24 hours she had probably about 10 seizures. I don't know how long they lasted but this can't be good on her body. Does anyone have any insight on this because I am so worried and have no idea what to do and need help. I'm afraid the pheno. won't work and I'll have to end up putting her down.
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