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01-20-2017, 07:00 PM | #1 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker | Vestibular Syndrome or what? Hi have a 12 year old boy who about 6 weeks ago began having what look like seizures. At first the vet thought it was a stroke, but then he recovered without lasting effects. He continued with them for about 10 days until the vet put him on antibiotics per our request. 6 weeks went by and no "seizures" until a few days ago. Back to the vet-he again ordered antibiotics and now no seizures again so far after 4 days on them. Anyone else have this happen and know what's going on? What do we do? |
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01-21-2017, 07:57 PM | #2 |
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| Can you post a video of whats happening ? have you shown a video of this to your vet ? Has your vet done any blood work like checking liver & kidney function ? |
01-22-2017, 11:25 AM | #3 |
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| Any time an older dogs starts having seizures and it has never has had any prior, a brain tumor should be highest on the list (benign or malignant). Get him to a neurologist. It still could be infectious or inflammatory or developmental disease but that is way down on the differential list. |
01-23-2017, 10:57 AM | #4 | |
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01-23-2017, 07:15 PM | #6 |
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| Yes it is important to get some baseline bloodwork: complete blood count, chemistry, thyroid and urine to evaluate the internal system. That would evaluate any kidney or liver abnormalities confirmed with ultrasound. With seizure like activity in patients though kidney and liver would not be on my top differentials. She would recommended to see a neurologist by most primary care veterinarians. I work at a specialty hospital. |
03-04-2017, 05:07 PM | #7 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker | Vestibular Neuritis? Sorry I haven't been back on. It's been 6 weeks since the last "episode". We hope the last antibiotic did the trick. In humans, Vestibular Neuritis causes the same eye movement that Skippy experienced (our own internet searches)-we hope it was just an ear infection that went bad. The vet did do blood work and all is normal. He supposedly checked liver, kidneys, thyroid, ect. Holding our breath here. We also thought of brain tumor. The shaking was under his control when he did it, he could stop if he was distracted enough. I'll post again if he has another, hopefully not! |
03-04-2017, 10:37 PM | #8 |
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| IF this was vestibular Syndrome, it sounds like he's over it now. |
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