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Cobi-G · 12-29-2010, 08:13 PM

This is my first time posting. Im trying to see if anyone else has had this issue with yorkies. Our 2 year old yorkie was playing one night and fell on his back which is not unusual for him...he jump hops and pounces all over the house. That night he had trouble jumping into bed,we figured he was just sleepy. The following night he started off with wobbling..we assumed it was his blood sugar and gave him some karo syrup. A few minutes later his back right leg went limp,he was dragging it but still playing. About 30 minutes later it was BOTH legs completely flaccid. We laid with him on the floor,planning to take him to the vet 1st thing in the morning. About 20 minutes later i was petting him and noticed his tail didnt respond to me while a patted his bottom. This alerted nerve damage to me so we took him to the 24 hour ER vet. They did xrays and blood work. Started iv steroids and pain meds thinking it was a bulging disk. He spent the night, and went straight to his primary vet that morning. He started the morning with deep pain reflexes,which means he recognizes the pain when the vet pinches or squeezes with alot of pressure. Within hours i recieved a phone call from our vet saying he is no longer recognizing the deep pain..which is NOT good.She immediately refferred us to an orthopedic surgeon an hour away. We got to the clinic and signed the papers to go for surgery. While waiting for the doc to call us to let us know how he did.....he called and stated he did NOT do surgery because the mylegram showed no bulging or ruptured disk. Our puppy was in no pain...just could not use his back legs or empty his own bladder. Usually with the disk being ruptured,pain is involved. This eased my mind since it requires no surgery but he is saying its basically a stroke to the spinal cord which is called FCE. The signs and symptoms fit...i just hope we made the right choice with not doing surgery. He assured us he saw nothing on xrays to actually go in and fix surgically. We meet with the vet tomorrow morning to discuss rehab at home until he starts using his legs, IF he does..then he will go to that clinic for more extensive rehab. Does anyone have any experience with this at all????

12-29-2010, 08:13 PM	#1
Cobi-G Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Biloxi Posts: 21	FCE-Spinal stroke This is my first time posting. Im trying to see if anyone else has had this issue with yorkies. Our 2 year old yorkie was playing one night and fell on his back which is not unusual for him...he jump hops and pounces all over the house. That night he had trouble jumping into bed,we figured he was just sleepy. The following night he started off with wobbling..we assumed it was his blood sugar and gave him some karo syrup. A few minutes later his back right leg went limp,he was dragging it but still playing. About 30 minutes later it was BOTH legs completely flaccid. We laid with him on the floor,planning to take him to the vet 1st thing in the morning. About 20 minutes later i was petting him and noticed his tail didnt respond to me while a patted his bottom. This alerted nerve damage to me so we took him to the 24 hour ER vet. They did xrays and blood work. Started iv steroids and pain meds thinking it was a bulging disk. He spent the night, and went straight to his primary vet that morning. He started the morning with deep pain reflexes,which means he recognizes the pain when the vet pinches or squeezes with alot of pressure. Within hours i recieved a phone call from our vet saying he is no longer recognizing the deep pain..which is NOT good.She immediately refferred us to an orthopedic surgeon an hour away. We got to the clinic and signed the papers to go for surgery. While waiting for the doc to call us to let us know how he did.....he called and stated he did NOT do surgery because the mylegram showed no bulging or ruptured disk. Our puppy was in no pain...just could not use his back legs or empty his own bladder. Usually with the disk being ruptured,pain is involved. This eased my mind since it requires no surgery but he is saying its basically a stroke to the spinal cord which is called FCE. The signs and symptoms fit...i just hope we made the right choice with not doing surgery. He assured us he saw nothing on xrays to actually go in and fix surgically. We meet with the vet tomorrow morning to discuss rehab at home until he starts using his legs, IF he does..then he will go to that clinic for more extensive rehab. Does anyone have any experience with this at all????