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sampsongc · 02-25-2015, 12:04 PM

I have never posted anything on the internet before so bear with me if im doing this wrong. I wanted to make all aware of the symptoms of chiari , SM . Being an empty nester I decided to get a dog. Saw a puppy on the internet and fell in love( Teddybearfaces.com) . Prices were ridiculous $3500 for the 5 month old biewer. She came down to $1600 and I thought I was getting the deal of the century. Flew to CA picked him up, cutest most precious thing I'd ever seen. He was being advertised as 3lb adult weight, Actual adult weight is now 6lbs. But I didn't care I was in Love. Ollie is very smart, well behaved and lives to please me. All good until about 9 months when he started a very strange behavior of raising his right paw and shaking it like it was on fire. Took him to my vet he run all sorts of blood work and took x-rays. Nothing wrong. He began doing it 3 to 4 times a day. Took him back vet says normal healty dog. Couple months pass and I take him back and the vet says leave him with me for the day so I can see what he's doing. Drop him off at 8 and pick him up at 6 vet says everyone here just loves him your so lucky to have such a great dog saw nothing abnormal all day UGGGG I go home and decide to catch it on video on my smart phone. Very hard to do since the shaking only lasted maybe 15 seconds. But I finally did get it and showed the vet.
He was shocked and had no idea what could be causing it. refered me to a neurologist she did an MRI bill was $2500 that day. Her prognosis was chiari malformation and put him on pain med and anti imflamatory. Didn't help went back and was told his case was severe and consider letting him go. Went home and read as much as I could find on Chiari, SM. If he was diagnosed earlier meds may have helped. I wasted months taking him to my vet and $100's on a condition he'd never seen. I took him to long island new York for surgery age 18 months. Very Long recovery from the surgery.Total bill there was $7,000. Ollie is now 5 years and still has symptoms, raising arm, shaking it while sort of dancing in a circle, then lays down and chews and licks that paw never makes a sound. On a bad day I give him his pain meds. Most of the time he is happy and playful. I'll never know if putting him through surgery was the right thing or selfish thing to do.

02-25-2015, 12:04 PM	#1
sampsongc Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: goodrich, mi Posts: 75	chiari malformation in biewer yorkie I have never posted anything on the internet before so bear with me if im doing this wrong. I wanted to make all aware of the symptoms of chiari , SM . Being an empty nester I decided to get a dog. Saw a puppy on the internet and fell in love( Teddybearfaces.com) . Prices were ridiculous $3500 for the 5 month old biewer. She came down to $1600 and I thought I was getting the deal of the century. Flew to CA picked him up, cutest most precious thing I'd ever seen. He was being advertised as 3lb adult weight, Actual adult weight is now 6lbs. But I didn't care I was in Love. Ollie is very smart, well behaved and lives to please me. All good until about 9 months when he started a very strange behavior of raising his right paw and shaking it like it was on fire. Took him to my vet he run all sorts of blood work and took x-rays. Nothing wrong. He began doing it 3 to 4 times a day. Took him back vet says normal healty dog. Couple months pass and I take him back and the vet says leave him with me for the day so I can see what he's doing. Drop him off at 8 and pick him up at 6 vet says everyone here just loves him your so lucky to have such a great dog saw nothing abnormal all day UGGGG I go home and decide to catch it on video on my smart phone. Very hard to do since the shaking only lasted maybe 15 seconds. But I finally did get it and showed the vet. He was shocked and had no idea what could be causing it. refered me to a neurologist she did an MRI bill was $2500 that day. Her prognosis was chiari malformation and put him on pain med and anti imflamatory. Didn't help went back and was told his case was severe and consider letting him go. Went home and read as much as I could find on Chiari, SM. If he was diagnosed earlier meds may have helped. I wasted months taking him to my vet and $100's on a condition he'd never seen. I took him to long island new York for surgery age 18 months. Very Long recovery from the surgery.Total bill there was $7,000. Ollie is now 5 years and still has symptoms, raising arm, shaking it while sort of dancing in a circle, then lays down and chews and licks that paw never makes a sound. On a bad day I give him his pain meds. Most of the time he is happy and playful. I'll never know if putting him through surgery was the right thing or selfish thing to do.