Jackie Keeps Having Fits

[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.

[4 Dog Mother]

The pacing and whining were more due to the valium than the seizure for Snoopy. The standing in corners was still a side effect of the seizure- he would also run into walls - so sad to experience all that. During the last couple of weeks of his life when he started to have more frequent seizures he would cry too.