[nvnvgirl]

Taren~ my Max has had similar episodes since he was about 2 or 3 yrs old. The first one, just started out of the blue; he'd been sleeping on the floor next to me while I was on the computer and seemed like he wanted me to pick him up, but when I did, he seemed like he wanted down. When I went to put him down, I realized something was weird about his back legs; they were sort of contracted up and when I looked at his face, his eyes were just sort of staring not at me....I was afraid he'd swallowed something and wasn't breathing. I'm a nurse, so I just held him and checked his mouth, massaged his chest, not knowing what was going on, but knowing that whatever it was, we were too far from the vet (of course it was a Sunday) that I had to take care of it now. After several minutes, he came out of it and was perfectly normal. So, by then, I figured it wouldn't do much good to have him see the vet since she/he wouldn't have witnessed the behavior and it was over now.
Since then, he's had maybe one similar episode every few months. Most of the time it seems to be precipitated by something scaring him really badly (once when one of the slats from the vertical blinds fell right in front of him as he was running out, once when he got into a big kerfuffle with my other Yorkie...things like that). He's normal otherwise and I haven't taken him to the vet for it yet. It's been probably 4 or 5 months since the last one, knock on wood.
I have kept a notebook just for his health progress and I have journalled each episode and tagged it for future reference; describing the date (be sure to put the YEAR too, b/c you'll forget!), the time, how long it lasted, what his behavior was just prior to it, what his symptoms were during it, and what he was like afterward. I keep track of what I feed them too, although I feed them pretty much the same thing every day; they do occasionally get into things (the cat's food, stuff out in the yard which is God only knows what, etc). I think it will help to keep track and see any patterns if it becomes something that gets to be more regular.
In my case, I was also in a pretty unhappy relationship and Max is a very sensitive guy; I felt that maybe that contributed to it, so I'm watching to see if it improves or abates now that I'm pretty much out of that.
Good luck with your little guy; I know how stressful it is to feel so helpless when this happens!