Originally Posted by wemple2  Bless your heart for responding, thank you...I don't want to hijack Murphy's thread...Winston has plenty of his own. But when I saw this...the videos, I thought maybe this is the answer I have been searching for. My husband and I watched them together, over and over again...I think the idea of videoing the episodes was brilliant!!! Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
With Winston...I took him immediately to his local vet, during an episode...the only thing she was able to determine was the dangerously low blood sugar. So of course that is what she treated. Gave me Nutrical to have at home. But the episodes continued, yes Nutrical brings him around, but my question has always been...what causes these. After going through some testing, nothing was actually proved as the cause. Other possibilities were discussed...but I was determined to not only treat the episodes, but try to prevent them from occurring. So I asked around, found another vet about an hour away. She saw him, said she did not think it was an insulinoma, which put my mind at ease...she said he was the wrong breed and the wrong age. She checked his blood sugar, it was low, but not low enough to cause a seizure, he was acting totally fine during this visit. She suggested putting him back on puppy food, 4 times a day feedings. Instructed me to poke his little ear to check his sugar at home at the very first sign of an episode, which I have not had to do as he has been seizure free since then. In hopes that we can prove the sugar is low to begin with, and not the seizure activity causing it to be low. If his sugar is ALWAYS low at the start of an episode, then she would suggest a liver biopsy for glycogen storage. Then she would do just as your vet is doing and put him on Prednisone, but her theory is, that this will naturally raise his sugar levels...which is a side effect of cortisone. If his sugar is NOT ALWAYS low at the start of a seizure, then she would recommend a neurologist to treat the seizures. But the syndrome that you were describing was never suggested to me...and I thought maybe I would bring it up to his new vet. Just to see if this could be a possibility.
Winston does not have a tremor normally...only during thunderstorms, at which times he knows before I know that there is going to be a storm. He starts shaking uncontrollably, panting and constant pacing...he will not relax. I thought maybe there was a connection with that, the vet said the change in barometric pressure before a storm could bring on seizures, but this has proven to fail, because it does not always bring on a seizure with Winston.
I do hope your baby is alright, we hurt when they hurt...And I will be asking my vet about this disorder, and that maybe this will solve the unexplained question...which comes first the Hypoglycemia or the seizure? Thanks again for all the information, it is priceless!!! |