[Patti]

A few months ago Pixie suddenly at age 5 1/2 became exremely afraid of thunder. I bought her the thunder shirt which helped a little. In these past few months she has had some personality changes as well. She is not her usual quick to jump up whenever I get up and bark like crazy, she won't eat treats, she eats most of her meals but not always. She walks around with her tail down a lot and not interacting with the other dogs, wants to sleep in the closet. I have had her at the vet 3 times and nothing could be determined to be causing this. The last 3 nights we have had thunder storms all night and Pixie has been glued to my side and panting and shaking. She has been quiet all day and ate her meals but not her treats. No storms tonight but at 2:30 she started in with the shaking and panting and wanting to be on top of me. A plane flew over about that time soI don't know if that set her off. I don't think she is in any pain as I have given her Tramadol to see if it settles her down and it doesn't. Her blood owrk was fine, exam fine. I am going crazy trying to figure out what is going on. Not to mention 3 hours sleep in the past 72 hours and now tonight looks like an all nighter. I am going to take her in again if she doesn't settle down in a day or two. It's just such odd symptoms and I know they are going to have a hard time diagnosing her. Has any one had any similar experiences. Is it normal for them to be upset days after a thunder storm? Thanks