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tisol · 11-10-2008, 01:15 PM

Hey guys,

I am new to this forum and this is one of our last desperate hopes to get some advice and help. Sorry if I don´t get all the medical terms correct in English, but hope with a little imagination it works.

We have a one year old 2 lbs yorkie girl called Lara. She has always been an active puppy, loads of energy and happiness (that is no real signs of hypoglicemia). A few months ago we left her with another couple who also ownes a yorkie (8 lbs, but same age) after we returned we started noticing that after a longer play Lara startes shaking and trembling.

It looks like this: she is panting and shaking (as if cold) but at the same time she also has this rocking motion to it, almost like a (sorry for this) handicapped person. Kind of an uncontrolable rocking of her head and torso. She stands still, shakes and wobbles a little, but she is still steady. She keeps on going and does not stop. It has happened that she need to lay down and even put her head down to keep it in controll. It always goes away after a little rest...

The problem is that it comes back more often and nowdays she does not need a lot of physical activity to get it going. Even a shorter walk is enough. But you never know when it comes. The only thing is that it is physical activity of some kind that activates it. Small sometime or a lot more at other times...

Off course that we are worried and we have done all test and bloodworks:
- loadtest, thyroid, whitebloodcell,
- anatest (but waiting for results)
- x-ray of spine
- next monday we will do CT-scan and liquor test (to test for neurodegenerative sicknesses, hydrocephalus and inflamations)

So far everything came back normal, besides ONE thing: she has very high level of white bloodcell count.

The latest is that she has been prescribed Prednisolon (that is a treatment for white shaker symptom). They suspect some kind of neurological or anti-imune disease???

When searching on the internet we have also come across Eclampsia and the shaking symptoms are the same, but she doesnt have puppies. Hypoglicemia was another idea, allthough we never tried feeding her some extra sugar, but she has a lot of energy, no white gums, but she has bad appetite.

Well basically that is it. We are very worried and are out of ideas. Any advice is welcome!

Thank you,
tiberius (tsoltesz@hotmail.com)

11-10-2008, 01:15 PM	#1
tisol YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Hungary Posts: 6	Trembling and shaking Hey guys, I am new to this forum and this is one of our last desperate hopes to get some advice and help. Sorry if I don´t get all the medical terms correct in English, but hope with a little imagination it works. We have a one year old 2 lbs yorkie girl called Lara. She has always been an active puppy, loads of energy and happiness (that is no real signs of hypoglicemia). A few months ago we left her with another couple who also ownes a yorkie (8 lbs, but same age) after we returned we started noticing that after a longer play Lara startes shaking and trembling. It looks like this: she is panting and shaking (as if cold) but at the same time she also has this rocking motion to it, almost like a (sorry for this) handicapped person. Kind of an uncontrolable rocking of her head and torso. She stands still, shakes and wobbles a little, but she is still steady. She keeps on going and does not stop. It has happened that she need to lay down and even put her head down to keep it in controll. It always goes away after a little rest... The problem is that it comes back more often and nowdays she does not need a lot of physical activity to get it going. Even a shorter walk is enough. But you never know when it comes. The only thing is that it is physical activity of some kind that activates it. Small sometime or a lot more at other times... Off course that we are worried and we have done all test and bloodworks: - loadtest, thyroid, whitebloodcell, - anatest (but waiting for results) - x-ray of spine - next monday we will do CT-scan and liquor test (to test for neurodegenerative sicknesses, hydrocephalus and inflamations) So far everything came back normal, besides ONE thing: she has very high level of white bloodcell count. The latest is that she has been prescribed Prednisolon (that is a treatment for white shaker symptom). They suspect some kind of neurological or anti-imune disease??? When searching on the internet we have also come across Eclampsia and the shaking symptoms are the same, but she doesnt have puppies. Hypoglicemia was another idea, allthough we never tried feeding her some extra sugar, but she has a lot of energy, no white gums, but she has bad appetite. Well basically that is it. We are very worried and are out of ideas. Any advice is welcome! Thank you, tiberius (tsoltesz@hotmail.com)