What do you think this is? Another issue #11 *sigh*

[wolf_Q]

I hope everything will be ok with Zoee! Our RB Smokey had seizures and it was very frightening when he had them...luckily they weren't every often.

[Taz_Zoee]

Marti, we are not putting her on any meds at this time because the seizures are not happening very frequently (Thank God). They said we could put her on Phenobarb, but that it is hard to get them off it. So I said let's not do that unless we absolutely have to.

Sophie, Thank you. Yeah, I didn't want to believe they were seizures either. Bruce was in denial up until today about it too.

Amy, luckily her seizures are not too bad. It's just stressful because I want to help her and there's nothing I can do for her. The second doc we saw today said I could ask my regular vet for Valium but that since her attacks are so far apart it'd probably expire before I need it again.

So for now I'm just hoping the attacks will not become more frequent.
Thank you all for your kind words, they mean a lot to me.

[Denyce]

Marti, we are not putting her on any meds at this time because the seizures are not happening very frequently (Thank God). They said we could put her on Phenobarb, but that it is hard to get them off it. So I said let's not do that unless we absolutely have to.

Sophie, Thank you. Yeah, I didn't want to believe they were seizures either. Bruce was in denial up until today about it too.

Amy, luckily her seizures are not too bad. It's just stressful because I want to help her and there's nothing I can do for her. The second doc we saw today said I could ask my regular vet for Valium but that since her attacks are so far apart it'd probably expire before I need it again.

So for now I'm just hoping the attacks will not become more frequent.
Thank you all for your kind words, they mean a lot to me.

I have gone through the exact same thing with our husky Sequoia. She started having seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy but we too decided not to put her on meds. She was having seizures about every 2-3 months and the one she had last March lasted almost 45 minutes. They were starting to get a bit worse.

Then the whole dog food thing happened. You remember the recall and the gluten and all that crap. I decided that I wanted her off of anything with glutens in it. I read what others were doing and did some research. We ended up putting her on Innova Red Meat. She started that last April.

She was doing fine on it but her coat started to get crappy and she was putting on weight. But by the beginning of August she hadn't had a seizure at all. Then about late August she had a very small seizure that lasted only a minute. By the time we figured out what was going on it was over.

But I still didn't like what her coat was doing. It was starting to lose the color and get greasy feeling. It dawned on me one day that she was showing signs of low thyroid. I took her in for a blood test and sure enough she was borderline. So we put her on medication for low thyroid.

So here it is almost a year since we put her on the Innova and 7 months since she was diagnosed low thyroid and now her coat is wonderful and she lost 6 pounds and she is doing GREAT! She still has not had another seizure since that very small one in August. So we went from long severe seizures every 2 months or so for a couple of years to ONE in the last year that only lasted a minute.

I don't know for absolute certain whether it was the diet or the low thyroid that made the major change in the seizures. Since she went for almost 5 months without a seizure just from changing her diet I am tending to lean towards that. But it could have even been a combination of the two.

But if I were you I would explore other diets. I am blaming the glutens in the Nutros Natural she was on before for the seizures. I don't think they CAUSED the epilepsy but I think that they trigger the seizures.

It is certainly worth checking into further because seizures are terrifying. It is so hard to remain calm when they are looking you in the eye for help and all you can do is wipe up the drool and tell them how much you love them and try to keep them from hurting themselves more.

Denyce

[pitc9]

Oh No!
I'm so sorry this is happening to her (and you)
{{{HUGS}}}
Prayers sent!