Jackie Keeps Having Fits

[Daisy and Delilah]

How frightening for you and Jackie, Jackie. Thoughts and prayers are coming your way. Feel better, sweetheart

[Ginger's Mom]

I am so sorry, Jackie. Jackie is lucky to have landed in a foster home that is so attentive and taking such good care of her special needs. Prayers going out that things will calm down.

[lizbud]

I am so sorry to hear this. Another person with personal experience
is 4 dog mother . Her dog Snoopy had seizures. I hope the Vets can help
Jackie.


http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthre...ghlight=snoopy

[4 Dog Mother]

I see Luminol is Phenabarbital. Snoopy took Phenabarbitol for 4 of his 6 years of life. It did end up damaging his liver but it also gave him and us time I don't think we would have had without. Snoopy had other health problems too so it wasn't just the liver damage that caused us to have to choose to put him down.

That being said, I am surprised your vet has not increased the dosage of luminol you give Jackie or added something else like potassium bromide. Snoopy did well on the meds - usually going 4-6 months without a seizure but then he would have a couple in a couple of weeks time and not have any again for awhile. Continuing to have seizres like Jackie is doing can cause kindling which is where the brain begins to think that is the natural way to react to whatever is bringing the seizures on. And they will become more frequent.

My vet said that you can run all kind of expensive tests to see if you can find the trigger to the seizures. But most of the time they don't find anything. Having a dog with seizures especially with the cluster seizures which it seems Jackie is having is very difficult to handle emotionally for us humans. Snoopy had grand mal which means he lost control of his body's functions which meant there was a mess to clean up each time he came out of it. Trying to clean up after and then deal with a confused lost, somewhat temporary blind dog can be very tough. A couple of times he got his jaw clamped on the side of his kennel and once on the fence outside - that was very disturbing because there was no way to "unclamp" it and you had to try to hold him still enough to not do damage.

I will keep you and Jackie in my thoughts and prayers.

[jackie]

I just got home from the vets a couple of hours ago and Jackie is home with me. I was going to leave her for observation until tomorrow, but the vet said she would probably be more comfortable and calm in the house.

She hasn't had a seizure for more then 24 hours (touch wood) and seems to have improved. When I want to the vets at 9am she was so tense she was hunched over and was walking with her nails curved under her feet. I stayed with her for about an hour, went home, then went back about 4 o'clock to pick her up. She is much more relaxed now, but hasn't stopped pacing the house since we got home. It is funny, the other dogs look more tired out then she does, and they haven't even done anything.

4 Dog Mother, the vet did increase her meds and so far she seems to have improved. She isn't crying constantly like she was before, but does seem very disorientated. She keeps stopping and studying things, like a pair of shoes, like she has never seen then before in her life. She also keeps walking to the corner and pressing her nose into it and just standing there. It reminds me of a little kid on a time out.

I will keep you updated, here is hoping she doesn't have anymore seizures and settles down.

[Daisy and Delilah]

Still thinking of Jackie and sending more prayers out. I hope she doesn't have any more seizures. It's so sad. {{{{{JACKIE}}}}}

[momoffuzzyfaces]

I had a dog who had seizures for years. I know how frightening they are. Dilly didn't start having them until she was poisoned. Some jerk was poisoning dogs in town with rat poison. She was outside in her pen, not bothering any one while I was at work. The vet saved her but she had the seizures off and on until she passed. She was on med that couldn't control the seizures but did damage her liver.

I got so I could tell when one was coming. She would start looking around like she was seeing things that weren't there and creeping around looking in corners. Her eyes didn't focus when she looked at me. Like she didn't even see me. Sometimes I could head a seizure off by giving her her med when I noticed her doing that. The days she didn't have seizures though, were great for us both.

Prayers are with you and Jackie.