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Originally Posted by Ladymom  If you are frustrated with your local vets, don't bother with them. Since you have already been to UC Davis, just call them and let them know about Elvis' recent episode. I am certain they will take it seriously. |
I sent a private message back with the details. I have my video camera on hand but no I have yet to actually tape a seizures-especially since in the begining what Elvis does when he seizures doesn't look like seizure to me and doesn't look like anything I've seen in seizure videos. Unfortunately as I said when he has seizured I have been too freaked out and distracted to remember to get the video camera-the vet did say that not all seizures consist of "flopping around" and that the hardening of all his muscles and the falling over after being disoriented are seizures. At one of the emergency vets a couple months later a vet did witness the seizure and said it was in fact a seizure and that its not uncommon for seizures to differ in appearance-apparently some dogs just space out and fall over and Elvis is on the middle of the seizure extremes. Again he simply gets "drunk" looking, wobbles legs go straight out, falls over and tenses up and becomes unresponsive. He never shakes or looses bowels. Which I think is important for people to know so if anyone sees their dog doing this-it is in fact seizure,despite a lack of this type of seizure activity being readily available in video for people to compare it to. As soon as I do get a video I will post it everywhere I can so people can educate themselves on what they may be witnessing with their dogs.
On Friday I found a new vet...records are being sent over there, and we'll see how this goes, this vet is closer to my home, they have their own emergency after hours, so I'm not going to an emergency clinic and to a separate vet, and this vet actually has a large number of patients (dogs) who have epilepsy so they are familiar with treating it. We'll see how aggressive they are in treating it after my consultation...will post update after the appointment.
And to the person who private messaged me (you know who you are) I sent you a response but really wanted to double post in case you don't see it-please have the person you know contact me if possible I'm not sure how it can help but maybe there's some similarity in treatment success in dogs from the same breeding family.It would be really appreciated, especially if the issues are exactly the same. Also for clarification Elvis' seizures are diagnoses and a neurological issue, we have done the bile acid test twice, along with two sets of each test for environmental facts, liver/kidney function, ultrasounds,etc he was specifically tested for hypoglycemia at first because it is so common in Yorkies and if untreated causes mild seizures, but everything on those tests were normal both times, at my regular vet the set of test and at the vet I sought the first second opinion on (they felt that in order to give an opinion they needed to start from scratch and do the full testing and not just look at the results from my vet).