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Sudden Paralysis Has anyone every heard of this? This happened to my girlfriends dog last week. He suddenly lost function in his back to legs. They told her surgery was necessary immediately, and it wasn't guaranteed to reverse this issue. Well a few days after surgery, little Finnegan has not regained feeling/movement in his back legs. She is at a loss, and devastated. Any words of advice or direction I can point her??? Thanks guys, this is a sad situation. *Admin, I hope this post is okay in this section. It is about a Chi, so if it needs to be moved to 'off topic', please do. Thanks. |
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my neighbor has one and so does babybear on here and they are great. Was it a spinal injury? what does the vet say about this? Did she go to a specialist for surgery? |
Paralysis If I were you, I'd check with your vet that performed the surgery. I think it takes a little while....so she may be doing what is normal. I'll be keeping you in my prayers. This happened to my little mini-dachshund in June, however, Annabelle wasn't a candidate for surgery. We had to put her down. So....be thankful your girlfriend's little one could have surgery. Just do everything you are told to do. Also, if you'll send me a private message, I can tell you about a site that helped me. |
I don't have too many details, but they said that it could have been something that he was born with, and it manifested itself until now. Fin's owner said that she was told that he's lucky he's alive. |
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It happened to a friend of mines lab once. Turned out he had a tick in his nose. He was fine once they got it out. |
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We had a dog who had calcium deposits build up in between the vertebrae of her spine...it's caused by the pressure when a dog jumps down and the vertebra come together. Any way when she got older we have to really restrict her jumping because the vet told us...it could end in paralysis and it would be immediate. |
Do you know if the name of the defect the dog had was Atlantoaxial Instability? It will cause death and paralysis. Wheelie Boy Babybear has this. He is my baby. He because paralyzed when he jumped off my lap and broke his neck over two years ago. He is just starting to walk without a wheelchair now. But he had a very bad break when he broke his neck. Now this pup just had surgery how long ago? It takes time for the meds to kick in and I am almost positive the doc gave her some steroids to give the pup to stop the swelling. After a surgery like this there is a lot of swelling. And she has to give this pup some time to recup. The surgeons usually say 8 weeks crate rest for spinal or crevical surgery. I have gone through all of this so I am here to give you any answers I can. Just ask away and I will get right back to you. Just for right now let your friend know this pup needs time and bed/crate rest. Sending healing thoughts for this baby. |
Wow that is just devestating! I have no advice but I'm praying that they can find out what's wrong with him and reverse the problem! |
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I am so sorry for your friend's baby...Mybabe4me has a lot of experience with this, so she would definitely be a "go-to" person on this topic on how to rehabilitate your friend's baby. Before I was married, I had a furbaby that all of a sudden lost feeling in his back legs in a matter of a few hours. Of course, we rushed him to the vet and they sent us over to the vet school. He was in extremely excrutiating pain, and he wouldn't let anyone touch him. He was hurting really bad, but he couldn't move his back legs. They told us he had a rare and inoperable case of myelomalacia which basically means deadening of the spine. Some cases are operable, some are not. This disease progressed extremely quickly, and by the time they were done with all the testing that day, he was paralyzed almost up to his neck...They told us our baby would never walk again and that this was one of the most painful diseases... He was in excruciating pain even with meds :( They said it was congenital, so he was born with it, but that it just surfaced itself then... |
I really doubt its this, but just in case... I would be sure that they looked for lyme disease in a blood sample before the did anything invasive. My first yorkie had that, and it became apparent when he could not stand on his rear legs, although he could pull himself up on his front ones. It was very scary but the treatment worked great and he was back to himself in a couple of days if I remember correctly. I would assume that this is one of the basic things they would have looked for when your girl friend first brought her yorkie in? :aimeeyork:aimeeyork |
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