Wednesday, July 30, 2008
25 days-seizure free!
Murphy seems to have found a dose of phenobarbital that works for him. this is the longest he's gone without a seizure this year! D and little D have both been out of town since July 23rd, so A is home alone, taking care of Murphy. He reports that Murphy is really happy when he gets home from work. He seems healthy and perky.
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Hi I found the below post, and it was linked back to you. I was wondering if you ever found out about why Ella was screaming. My dog just started doing this last week. It is breaking my heart and I'm going out of my mind trying to figure out what it is. He also does have a history of seizures, but I haven't been able to directly link the two. I just took him to the vet today and they started him on phenobarbital. They said to monitor him for 3 weeks and if the screaming persists to bring him in for more tests. They also did some blood work, but I haven't gotten the results yet. Any information would be helpful. Thank you.
Posted on July 18, 2008 02:21
Denise :
I think the situation with my 5 year old Shitzu is most common to that of your situation, Donald. Ella, (my dog), is five and all of a sudden with no warning began having a seizure (or at least that's all we know to call it). She just suddenly began making a screaming noise as if she was in terrible pain, I could also tell one of her front legs was stiff. In only seconds she was getting stif all over and continued the screaming noise. We could see that her tongue was just hanging out of her mouth, her mouth was drooling somewhat, and her eyes looked like they were popping out her head. This seizure lasted about several minutes and we hoped after it was over that it would be the only one. However, through the night, about a couple hours after the first one, she had another and then kept having smaller attacks for a period of about three hours. I took her to the vet and he took blood tests (all of which normal) and then gave me the anti seizure meds and is planning to get the valium suppositories to me. Ella had another that day and then I gave her the medication as told to do so by the vet. She has not had one since but she will not eat and just lays around. She perked up for a short period of time when we were arriving home from being gone to town. The episodes caused her eyes to get really bloodshot and as the vet called it, bruised. I am just confused mainly by the noise she was making, I don't want to think that she is in pain, yet with that noise I don't know how she couldn't be. Through research, dogs do not make noise with seizures and they are not supposed to be in pain. I was wandering if Wally (or anyone else reading this) had a dog make a lot of noise during seizures. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!
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