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dcapper · 11-10-2008, 12:07 AM

He has been good since. Its 2 hours later. The first one he was walking into the kitchen to see what was cooking for dinner. He eats mostly people food. Then he fell over and started twitching and pee'd himself. But he got up after and started eating and drank him water. I wasn't here for that one. The second one I let him out (its about 19 here tonight) and he was walking around then he started to scratch his face then went into the twitching. I brought him in and it lasted for around 2 minutes and I held him the whole time. When he came to it was like nothing happened but he paced for a while. I did read on here that some people's dogs were getting seizures from the cold and sudden agitations. So now I've turned all the lights low and the noise level to a minimum.

Now I am reading about GME. Could he have GME at 17 years old? It says its common from 6 months to 10 years old. I know I'm being a worry wart but these look like alot of the symptoms he had:

Clinical signs are variable and reflect the area of the CNS affected. If GME affects the forebrain, clinical signs could involve:

Blindness
Seizures
Altered mental status
Pacing
Circling
Head pressing
Stumbling with a nearly normal gait

Now he really has bad cataracts so he really can't see much anyways. He also paces as it is now.

I will update in the morning after he sees the vet. Hopefully someone can give me a few things to ask the vet and if they've seen similar problems before.

11-10-2008, 12:07 AM	#9
dcapper Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2007 Location: Winnipeg Posts: 372	He has been good since. Its 2 hours later. The first one he was walking into the kitchen to see what was cooking for dinner. He eats mostly people food. Then he fell over and started twitching and pee'd himself. But he got up after and started eating and drank him water. I wasn't here for that one. The second one I let him out (its about 19 here tonight) and he was walking around then he started to scratch his face then went into the twitching. I brought him in and it lasted for around 2 minutes and I held him the whole time. When he came to it was like nothing happened but he paced for a while. I did read on here that some people's dogs were getting seizures from the cold and sudden agitations. So now I've turned all the lights low and the noise level to a minimum. Now I am reading about GME. Could he have GME at 17 years old? It says its common from 6 months to 10 years old. I know I'm being a worry wart but these look like alot of the symptoms he had: Clinical signs are variable and reflect the area of the CNS affected. If GME affects the forebrain, clinical signs could involve: Blindness Seizures Altered mental status Pacing Circling Head pressing Stumbling with a nearly normal gait Now he really has bad cataracts so he really can't see much anyways. He also paces as it is now. I will update in the morning after he sees the vet. Hopefully someone can give me a few things to ask the vet and if they've seen similar problems before.