Seizures with yorkies???

[Pam 19]

armanireeves: If your baby has had that many seizures in that short of time you should have already had her at an Emergency Vet Clinic or at least your regular vet as soon as they opened the doors. Occassional seizures are not usually that bad but still need to be addressed with your vet. There are also diffenent types of seizure activity. Not all include the jerking & shaking. Loosing control of pee or poop is not uncommon for dogs or people during a seizure. Staring with blank facial expressions is also not uncommon. Unless there is something seriously wrong with you baby causing the seizures the vet may be able to treat with seizure medication. I had a pup that seizured about every 3 or 4 months. He would just all of a sudden get down from the couch or walk to a place nearby & just fall over on his side with a blank stare, breathing heavily with a sharp crying noise at times. It would only last a maybe 2 or 3 mins but seemed like a lifetime. I would just start gently rubbing his side & telling him that it was going to be OK over & over in a calm voice. For some reason this seemed to help calm him. The vet put him on Phenobarbital (strong seizure med.) once a day. He still had seizures occassionally but not near as often. There were no tests run. I just explained to the vet what he was doing when the seizures took place. With yours doing it that frequently, they may need to do some testing. Don't think about putting her down untill the vet tells you that there is nothing that can be done to help her. Explain to the vet that you don't have the money for expensive testing & is there somewhere or someone that might be able to help you, if the vet can't. It may be just a matter of taking medication everyday. But getting her to the vet is your first priority, not waiting around!! Frequent seizure activity like yours has had is very dangerous.

[Sunnie]

ok... make that 3 times so far today that I have cried because of a post on YT... It appears it is too late for this baby. I just read her (armanireeves) blog.. (click on the blog link on her name) then click on the "keep reading link" seems she put her down this morning..

[stanziog]

OMG! I just read it... so so sad.... It just seemed it all happened so quick...

[Ladymom]

Originally Posted by Sunnie

ok... make that 3 times so far today that I have cried because of a post on YT... It appears it is too late for this baby. I just read her (armanireeves) blog.. (click on the blog link on her name) then click on the "keep reading link" seems she put her down this morning..

Oh, dear heavens! My Lady was having several grand mal seizures a week when I adopted her at age 4. She is now 15 and counting. Her seizures are well controlled by medication.

Seizures should not be a death sentence in a young dog.

[AllDogBoots]

I am crying as this hits me so close to home. My baby Max was 11 weeks old and 3 days new to my family when he had his first seizure.

I am sad and I'm absolutely irate. I need to step away.

[armanireeves]

Originally Posted by Pam 19

armanireeves: If your baby has had that many seizures in that short of time you should have already had her at an Emergency Vet Clinic or at least your regular vet as soon as they opened the doors. Occassional seizures are not usually that bad but still need to be addressed with your vet. There are also diffenent types of seizure activity. Not all include the jerking & shaking. Loosing control of pee or poop is not uncommon for dogs or people during a seizure. Staring with blank facial expressions is also not uncommon. Unless there is something seriously wrong with you baby causing the seizures the vet may be able to treat with seizure medication. I had a pup that seizured about every 3 or 4 months. He would just all of a sudden get down from the couch or walk to a place nearby & just fall over on his side with a blank stare, breathing heavily with a sharp crying noise at times. It would only last a maybe 2 or 3 mins but seemed like a lifetime. I would just start gently rubbing his side & telling him that it was going to be OK over & over in a calm voice. For some reason this seemed to help calm him. The vet put him on Phenobarbital (strong seizure med.) once a day. He still had seizures occassionally but not near as often. There were no tests run. I just explained to the vet what he was doing when the seizures took place. With yours doing it that frequently, they may need to do some testing. Don't think about putting her down untill the vet tells you that there is nothing that can be done to help her. Explain to the vet that you don't have the money for expensive testing & is there somewhere or someone that might be able to help you, if the vet can't. It may be just a matter of taking medication everyday. But getting her to the vet is your first priority, not waiting around!! Frequent seizure activity like yours has had is very dangerous.

Thanks, but i had to put my lil one down, we did test on her and there was not much to do, she had liver shunt and if we would of treated her for the seizures, it would of caused her more liver damage. by the end of the day she had 10 seizures, and before we put her down the vet says she was going to have a major seizure that could of caused her brain damage. I'm still heart broken, but i did not want my armani to not be happy and hypper like she always was!!!

[107barney]

Originally Posted by armanireeves

Thanks, but i had to put my lil one down, we did test on her and there was not much to do, she had liver shunt and if we would of treated her for the seizures, it would of caused her more liver damage. by the end of the day she had 10 seizures, and before we put her down the vet says she was going to have a major seizure that could of caused her brain damage. I'm still heart broken, but i did not want my armani to not be happy and hypper like she always was!!!

That is very sad. My Teddy has been diagnosed with epilepsy and has been put on medication to stop his seizures that would not cause any liver damage. I'm sorry one of these newer drugs could not have been tried in this case.