[MandiesMom]

Originally Posted by Lyric

My Yorkie, who will be 16 in a few months, had a couple of grand mal seizures (first time ever having seizures) back in late September. The vet started him on phenobarbitol at the time. But it took at least six weeks for him to start getting better. He still was having seizures, and he became even more blind and deaf and less aware of his surroundings. At times he did not even seem to know us, and we thought we were losing him. In fact, I took him back to the vet twice, because his quality of life was so poor, fully expecting her to say that he should be put to sleep, but she kept encouraging us to wait a full six weeks for the phenobarbitol to take full effect and for the side effects (constant pacing in circles, etc.) to go away or get better. Well, three months from the date he started the phenobarbitol, he is almost totally back to normal now. For a dog his age who weathered a major health problem, he is doing great. He actually enjoyed Christmas so much this year, even opening his presents (although he still can't see well--he can see a lot better than he could when he was fighting the seizures and effects of the med) under the Christmas tree. We are so thrilled to have our little guy back. His personality has come back, too. I know he won't live forever and I know the seizures could come back anytime, but I'm so glad we hung in there for a couple of months instead of giving up on him.

That's such a great story! Just put a smile in my heart reading it