seizure causes dogs

I was reading on the net that dogs do not have epilepsy, it is strictly a human condition. I want to believe my vet but.... Will you please explain to me what causes seizures in dogs and what I can di to prevent it?

my dog had a seizure yesterday. is it ok to give him ativan? my vet is closed till am.

What is happeneing to your dog is called a post-dictal seizure reaction, which means that the brain will not function quite right for an unknown amount of time. I have seen dogs come out of a seizure and act like nothing happened, I have seen dogs like yours who have some trouble after, and I have seen dogs die from a seizure. I am sure that your vet has given your dog diazepam and/or valium (anti-seizure medication). He may do so again tomorrow.

It does still fit the description of a seizure. Not all seizures involve paddling, slobbering and loss of bladder control. Those are basically what are considered to be grand mal seizures. Petite mal seizures can be anything from a twitching of the head to a state of catatonia for a brief time, which sounds more or less like what your girl had. Please let us know what the vet says when you do get to take her in. Good luck to you!

After those seizures, which lasted all of five minutes, he would snap right back to normal. But after his last seizure, which occurred on Saturday.....different story. That morning, he woke up very lethargic acting, and slept all throughout the day, not eating anything or wanting to drink anything. Then in the early evening, he had a major seizure. This time, he had three of them in a row, and afterward, was back to lethargic.

We took her to the vet on Tuesday morning after her 2nd seizure for blood work to check for possible causes. The blood work came back Wednesday afternoon and the vet told us that her blood chemistry looked fine. He prescribed 60mg Phenobarbital 2X daily(the dog is approx 52 lbs, so the dosage seems appropriate), though I came to find out my wife has only been giving her 30mg 2X daily. Regardless, the dog has not had another seizure since starting the medication.

Not all Ticks carry them, but if they do, there is a real battle on. Not all dogs are strong enough to come through either the disease, or the long treatment. The vet tried. You tried. Some people wouldn't have given that much, but you did. It is so sad, and I'm so sorry for what you are going through right now. Prayers and hugs from me.

We also have two other dogs( lab mixes), they seem to flip out when she has an episode. When she has a seizure, she stiffens up, shakes at the same time, drools, her eyes look blank and she looses control of her bowels. Is that what your dog goes through? Just need to talk to someone who goes through the same thing I do!!!!! Thanks!

I did not read all the post on here, but I will say that the dogs kind of go blind after they have a seizure, so when you come close all they see are shaddows...so they are scared of you. I did the same as you I got my other dogs out of the room and I too was scared to be around my sweet loving dog.

But I was fortunate to talk to this lady who has four dogs that seizure and she told me to start putting my dog on fish oil,choline,and more natural foods like liver,carrots,potatoes and etc and she says that will help alleviate the seizures.She said her dogs are seizure free(maybe 1 a year)before she had put them on the natural oils and foods they were seizing up to 10 times a day.

I wish I could afford some of the foods you suggested, but I have three large dogs and with two ill dogs and tons of vet bills, it's just hard to do everything for them. I did locate how many calories were in the food I was giving my dog, it had 489 per cup, that was up from the last food I gave him that was 295 per cup. I am now combining these tow foods so he can adjust slowly to losing weight.

Thank you, we stopped taking it. I lowered dose of anti seizure med and she had another seizure. So at this time I'm not sure what to do.

I have seen seizure dogs have their first seizure, pop out of it before the vet could run down the hall, and appear to be fine. I have also, very sadly, seen seizure dogs whose owners waited days, and brought their dog in after seizing non-stop for that whole time. These dogs rarely survive, and if they do, there is very severe drain damage.

The past 2 nights around the same time, like 1 am or so he has had what I believe is a seizure... He gets stiff and shakes furiously and has a look of Panic in his eyes. He also looses control of all boul movements and slobes profusily. Like I said this has only happened the past 2 nights and Ive had him over a couple years now and never seen him do anything like this.

Yesterday we (me and my girlfriend) went out for a few hours, and we found one of my four dogs(He is a collie and sheltie mix), locked in our bedroom. We are not sure how he got in their, but he was crying. He went through all the garbage, and later that night he had a seizure. It's like his legs gave out, and after literally one second, I picked him up, put him on the couch and he seemed ok.

I know. It totally *****. I inherited mine from my grandmother last year when she passed. This dog has tonic clonic seizures about once a month. He has had anywhere between 1 to 3 at a time, and they're always nocturnal. He knows it is coming as he perks up and gets out of bed. Within 10 minutes or so he's having them. I, too, have Epilepsy. So, I have some experience with this. This is a really crappy disease that gets very little attention in the medical community.

My three year old dog Jasper had about 15 seizures in a 24 hour period without full recovery in between. The day he started having them I brought him to the vet and he was prescribed phenobarbital, which I gave to him at 7 pm that night. His seizures continued through the night and finally at three am I called the vet again, who advised me to give him a half a pill ( his regular dosage is 30 mg tablets twice a day).

my parents had been to the vet and when I got home I sat with him while he suffered 4 more seizures I decided that I could not see him suffer and we went to vet and tio got the jag to sleep as u can imagine has been upsetting. my question is I found out when he took the first seizure When I was home with himhe struggled to do a poo outside and it looked strange.

30 pm, he began having seizure after seizure after seizure. Being that I live alone and am not incredibly strong, I didn't attempt to load Merle in my car to rush him to an emergency vet. He was flailing around so violently I didn't want to take the chance of accidentally dropping him and hurting him more.

Seizures are caused by many different things. Phenobarbitol and valium is only a bandaid and makes the dog sleep so much. If the vet finds it's a form of epilepsy then better meds will be prescribed. It could be a heart problem, or could be brain cancer or many other causes.. I've had 3 dogs that had seizures. The epileptic dog lived a regular life on medication. The heart problem dog lived another couple of years until his heart valve went totally.

My dog Freddie started having seizures as a little puppy. He had them almost daily for quite a while. (7 years, sorry but I couldn't afford a vet ) unless he got enough exercise, then he usually didn't have them. Eventually the vet put him on phenobarbitol. He was on it for about a year. He stopped having seizures but he gained 3 pounds and was so lethargic and showed no emotions, like love or anything. He was pretty much a "nothing" on the drug.

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