HI Charlene.
I am so sorry to hear about your yorkie and the problems you are going through. I wouldn't rule out epilepsy. I have a sweet little female yorkie, KiKi. She will be 4 years old on March 21. When she was just over a year old, she had her first seizure. I went crazy! I was so scared, and I didn't know what was happening. After a year of blood work, checking her liver, test after test and logging all of her seizures, the eventual diagnosis was epilepsy. Whether this is correct or not, I don't know but everything else was ruled out. Each time she has one it scares me to death! She was first put on Phenobarbital pills 15mg -- half a pill in the morning and half in the evening. That didn't work, so we had to increase it to one whole pill in the morning and one in the evening. My baby became pregnant by mistake and the seizures seemed to stop, so I started thinking maybe it was a hormonal issue. She seemed to do welll. About two months later, they started again so when she went into heat, I let her breed so she could be seizure free for a couple of months at least (again, I thought this was hormonal so I wanted to help her all I could). The doctor told me it wasn't though. During this second pregnancy, everything changed. She had seizure after seizure. I finally spoke to the original family that I got her from and asked if KiKis mother had any problems like this. They informed me that the mother had died a week after I got KiKi. It was from seizures. She went into one, then another and another and never came out of it.
I know you said your baby was awake and alert during the episode, but my vet explained although they are looking around, they are unconscious during the seizure and still in and out of consciousness for aobut 15-20 minutes after it. They may potty afterwards, throw up, walk around / fall down / seem exhausted and want to do nothing but sleep.
KiKi now takes Potassium Bromide 250 mg/m twice a day with her pills. Out of the first litter, she had four puppies. Two of them have acquired the seizures. My parents took one of the puppies -- they named her Sugar. On February 3 she went into a seizure about 4am and then into a second one. My parents got in the car and rushed to the emergency vet. She kept going into seizures and died in my dads arms before they could get to the vet.
I am not trying to scare you, just offer some of what I have learned and experience for three years in dealing with the seizures. When Kiki has one, she seems to know when it's going to happen and comes to me a minute or two before. I hold her close to my chest so she cant jerk or flop around and hurt herself. I speak smoothly and calmly to her letting her know how much I love her and that it's going to be ok. All her legs get stiff and her head limps to the side and she shakes terribly.
She seemed to be doing much better but she had two of them tonight. I send this reply with many prayers and blessings for your baby yorkie and hope that although there isn't a cure, that you are able to keep them under control. I couldn't find hardly anyone who was going through this and I didn't know what to do. Make sure if you start your baby on the phenobarbital that you follow up with blood work around 2-3 weeks later to make sure she is getting the right dose.
I hope your baby continues to go without any since she hasn't had any for a couple of weeks. Good luck and if you ever need to talk about it, you can email me.
Sincerely,
Rhonda
Rhonda_333@hotmail.com