Please keep Brandi in your thoughts
 

I had to rush her to the emergency vet last night because of pacing back and forth, drooling, disorientation and getting stuck in corners. The vet thought she may be blind or she has cognitive dysfunction and that I may want to think about euthansia.

Her vital signs were good and I told the vet she just had her annual checkup with came back a clean bill of health. She had blood work, urinalysis and stools sample all of which came back with no problems.
My vet was concerned about her eye and she was taking to different eye drops as well as an antibiotic for UTI, other than that my vet thought she was doing great.

On Friday she started the anti biotic and that's when things started going down hill. Because of the storm (i'm in Delaware, I could not get her to the vet). By Monday she seemed to be doing okay and was eating fine and had started to perk up. By Tuesday the pacing started and by Tuesday night she was drooling and barely able to walk. I took her to the emergency vet where he thought she may be totally blind.

I told him I was not going to make any decisions until she has seen a specialist. He recommended I either take her to a neurologist or an internist. I setup an appointment to take her to the internist for tommorrow at 3:00pm.


The emergency vet give her a sedative and she is now resting comfortably. I also have some buprenex to help with pain as well. I am not giving up on her. Whatever it takes I will make sure she gets the care she needs.

oh my god that is so heartbreaking, I'm sending her my most positive energy and hope she pulls through.
You must be a wreck

My son almost had to have his dog put down due to an antibiotic he was put on. The dog had a temperature and seemed to have some sort of repiratory symptoms. The vet put him on an antibiotic and within a day or two he had symptoms much like your dog's and then started having seizures. They rushed him to the vet several times. The vet never mentioned that the antibiotic could cause such side effects. After a week of suffering they were ready to put the poor guy down to stop his suffering. My son got on line and looked up the medication he was on and saw that possible side effects were very similar to his dog's and seizures were also a possible side effect. They took the dog off the medication and within hours the seizures stopped and he started getting better. Sometimes we don't realize what a medication can be doing to our pets and they cannot tell us. Look into the medication and consider stopping it or having your dog switched to something else. I don't know if that is what it is but I would hate to have you go through what my son and his dog did because of a medication reaction.

I am a wreck. I started crying right there. I also had to come into work today because I have an interview for an internal position I applied for. The interview is at 10:30. I will probably leave after my interview. I do have the webcam setup on her to monitor her and she is resting. The vet said she should be knocked out for most of the day.


She's been through so much with her ongoing issues. Being a rescue and used for breeding is the reason I am paying for someone else's neglect. :mad: I am hoping its just an adverse reaction to the anti biotic. I looked up the anti biotic and there were no side effects I should be concern about, just the usual stuff like vomiting and diarheaa but nothing like seizures.

How long has she been on the medication? Did her symptoms start at anytime near when she was started on it? After my son's experience, almost losing that dog because of a medication, I am very suspicious about medications. My son took his dog to the Cornell Veterinary College to have him checked out and they did not even consider that the medication could be the cause. I hope you can find what brought this on so quickly. They would also give Bear things to put him out for a while but when he would wake up he would have the same symptoms. If you were to stop the antibiotic for a day or two see an improvement then you would have your answer.

Yes the symptoms started on the same day but she has been having issues that I have been trying to get diagnosed for awhile so I didn't think the anti-biotic had anything to do with it until last night when she started pacing and drooling. I was like these aren't the usual symptoms....this is something else.

Brandi's medical history is very long. It all begins with this mystery illness that no vet can seem to figure out. Her only symptom is not being able to rest....no other symptoms. It's like she can't get comfortable. These episodes usually on last a few hours but lately they have been stretching into days. Everything is else is normal....appetite, energy level, stool and urine. But last night was a entirely something different. I've never seen her exhibit these kinds of symptoms before.

prayers...i hope you find the answer..you dont think she was allergic to the antibiotic do you? i hope everything turns out ok and your baby girl is ok. hugs to you.

Now that I think about this. Her symptoms did get worse after i gave her 1 ML of the anti biotic dose yesterday. I will surely let the vet know tommorrow at her appointment.

Praying for you and Brandi.
Many years ago my beagle was taking antibiotics. While taking them he seemed to lose control of his legs and couldn't walk. I looked up his medicine in a prescription book (these were the days before the internet) and his symptoms were a side effect for the drug he was on. So I took Benji and the book to the vet and showed her. She took him off the meds and he was fine. Maybe Brandi's symptoms are a side effect.
Sending hugs to you both.

poor baby praying for her and you

I am so sorry that she is sick

I bet the problems are the result of the antibiotics. I can't take penicillin or sulfa drugs but everyone else in the family can. Thank God you didn't have your baby put down right away.

Have you taken her off the antibiotic? You will have to give her a while to get it out of her system. I had a full body itchy rash from sulfa once and it tooks a long time to go away.

Praying for you and please keep us up to date.

Louise

:thumbup: :thumbup: I totally agree with you - have heard this many times (even over here!). It would ALWAYS be my first course of action - check the new meds.

I wish Brandi, of course, every good thought and prayer...and good luck for a very speedy recovery. A hug to mummy too! :) Sally + Harry x

So sorry you and your baby are facing these issues. Keep us updated. Prayers to both of you

Same here... antibiotics scare me for humans and animals because you just never know.

Her symptoms are the same as those of liver toxicity... I'd get her on Denamarin (liver support) ASAP, stop the ABs and the sedative... Many drugs are processed thru the liver.... and sorry, but I'd take her somewhere that knows what they're doing! And I'd do it now!

JMHO

I am so sorry. Sending prayers for Brandi and you.

I am so sorry... I'm glad you are getting her the care she needs. Brandi will be in my thoughts...

Praying all turns out well, I would stop the antibiotic right away and take her to another vet!

Please keep us posted on her she is doing.

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Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers. I am back home and she was able to eat but I am concern that she hasn't poop yet. She hasn't had a bowel movement since Monday she has eaten twice since Monday.

She is urinating okay. I looked up what Liver Toxicity and will ask for a liver panel when she goes to her vet appointment. She doesn't want me anywhere near her butt so I think she can't poop. She doesn't want to sit down or when she does sitt her butt is slighlty elevated. She doesn't want her butt to touch the floor. She's okay laying down, it's just sitting down that she doesn't want to do.

I wonder if trying a little mashed pumpkin either alone or with food would help or hurt since it is a natural dog laxative.

I am sorry to hear. Good thoughts are going out to you

I'm so sorry. I also think the medication could be making her worse. When Ashley was on Buprenex for pain, it really affected her. I had to give it to because I didn't want her in pain, but she got even more clingy, and she moaned a great deal. Once I was able to take her off of it, she always did much better. Ashley suffered from dementia the last year of her life and passed away a month before her seventeen birthday. If you have questions or need my help, please let me know.

Her anal glands are probably bothering her again... which can cause them not to eat as much or at all.

I would really have her seen asap, seems I can't stress this enough. The blindness also comes from the toxicity. If she's not seen soon, her organs may start to shut down....

:thumbup: Definitely have her anal glands checked. Also agree about having her checked ASAP. I am sorry sweet Brandi is having issues.

Just throwing this out there (from experience)....some Vet's are conservative and don't want to spend your money. I would reassure them to take all measures to get to the bottom of the issues Brandi is having.

This is very saddening.

I hope Brandi gets better soon.

She just had her anals express at her annual checkup about two weeks ago. I really think the emergency vet was wrong about the blindess. I took her outside for walk and she can see in at least one eye. She may only can see partially out of her right eye. Most of her symptoms have subsided. She is not pacing back and forth any longer or drooling. She actually has perked up a little bit. I didn't give her any of her medication. I am really beginning to believe she had a reaction to the antibiotic.

The reason I am skeptical about the emergency vet is because he basically only took her vital signs which he said were good. He did no other testing and I don't think he even took into consideration the meds she had just started. She does have another appointment with a specialist tommorrow. I will monitored her behavior. If she starts to exhibit the same behavior, I will take her to a different emergency hospital.


The cost so far for everything is approaching 1100.00. This is including her annual visit, follow up visits, her eye treatments, her uti meds as well as blood, stool and urinalysis and meds for her right eye. Her appointment tommorrow is 210.00 which doesn't include any additional testing and her emergency visit last night was 182.00. All of this in two weeks.

I am aware of seriousness of her health issues. That is is why I left work early and will be working from home tommorrow up until it's time for her appointment. Her appointment is at 3:00pm. I am monitoring her behavior and can respond quickly if anything starts to go wrong again. I don't want to seem like money is an issue but if I can avoid paying for the same thing twice, I rather wait to go see the specialist.

I have been reding since I have nothing better to do at work today and I knew pure puree pumpkin would help a dog "go" and everything I am seeing says it is also good in diets for dogs with liver disease in small amounts (Guinness gets a quarter size drop of organic pumpkin baby food a day for his IBS). So maybe trying that to help her "go" and push out the toxics faster might be a good idea.

You know I would never advise anyone to stop a medication if I didn't think it was really important. My son's dog acted much like yours before the seizures started. They thought it was the fever but it was the medication. When I think how close we were to losing Bear and what he went through it is just very upsetting.
Hopefully, you stopped it soon enough. The vets never picked up on it Bear's problem. I guess it is some what unexpected for them? I don't know but I think it is a shame when a pet owner has to do their own investigation to find out what is killing their dog. Please don't give her anymore of the medication. If the vet still feels she needs an antibiotic then insist that they give her something else. Maybe think about giving her some time to recover before starting a new med if at all possible.