so the wifes new pup has epilepsy...the medicine does....wild things to her

i wonder -- maybe call the vet & talk to somebody.

she cant jump on the couch...she is too small....but she can tonight.
She's a trip right now.
She seems perfectly fine...no seizures or anything....just wound really tight

Levetracetam

Your description made me

that is for the dog.

you wouldn't walk away

this is the lounge, relax

they weren't calling your wife a dog, they were riffing off your subject line

Clearly he/she was having fun with your subject line.

or you can pm me yours...we can have a conversation about it

No where did I refer to your wife as a dog. I did however suggest, TONGUE IN CHEEK, that you should be giving the medicine to the dog instead of your wife especially since it is causing her to do wild things.

My vet always prescribed the old tried and true Phenobarbital for epilepsy in my dog.

Phenobarb was Alexs' first med as well. Phenobarb is dirt cheap too.

and he lived loved, long and well. Bob, do you live near a major vet teaching hospital? As much as I loved/love my local vets, they were glad to refer me and Alex to an expert. Did your vet tell you about the valium protocol to try to prevent a second sz or a cluster? Several major websites with loads and loads of information are 1-http://www.canine-epilepsy.com 2 http://www.canine-epilepsy.net there are several Yahoo groups that you can learn from. PM me if you want to talk.

I have so many questions but she is quiet for now and sleepy so we are going to lay down but I have so many questions for you I hope you wont end up hating me.

I've never had a dog with epilepsy and I am totally lost.....I am hoping my vet knows what she is talking about and it is hope and a wing and a prayer from there right now

will that stop wave seizures?

She was having several a day seizures until they got her on the abouve thread mentioned Levetracetam.

She was doing great for about a month and now the seizures are coming back.

she can go weeks without an episode but if she has one we know to sit up because she will have 4 or 5

I feel so bad for her...even after the seizure she wants to run to burn the nerves I guess and progressively she is off balance longer and longer after a seizure

Alex the Wonder dog, most handsome Prince of Columbus had his first seizure in 1996. There wasn't a lot known then, I stumbled on an article about canine epilepsy and first used the internet to find those groups I mentioned above, I found help, comfort and advice from them. Those articles are very good and excellent resources. The valium protocol was designed in the late 80s/early 90s in part by vets at Ohio State University and University of Kentucky. A variation is used in humans now to lessen the chance of further seizures (I don't know anything about other mammals with epilepsy so I can't speak to those issues). A needless syringe of the right amount of liquid valium is CAREFULLY inserted into the dogs rectum and slowly injected. The rectal walls are well vascularized and the valium will get into the dogs circulatory system and therefore into the circulatory system of the brain quicker then giving a pill.

The walking around in circles, almost blindly is the post ictal phase, it is almost as though the brain has to work off all that excess electrical energy. Some times the seizures will use so much of the brains' glucose stores that a second seizure is possible, so on advice from the groups when I could see Alex was ' back' he and any other dog would get some all natural ice creams or a scrambled egg.

a whole bunch of people helped me, It is a scary thing to see your fur baby like that. PM me any time

Punctuation, OTOH,.....!

Barbituates are the way to go. Benzodiazapam (Valium) works well.

that is some sick fucking shit.