7/25...Another Grand Mal...and Meds now too

We put him on the meds. I am not thrilled, but I don't know what else to do.

Will write more tomorrow, pretty exhausted now.

He had the seizure sometime before I came home from work. He had pooped & peed in his cage and his muzzle was wet on one side and he was acting a bit weird.

We went to the vet and got him the medication. We need to go back in a month and get his level checked, will do a thyroid 6 panel then as well.

Hopefully this medication will work for him and he won't have all of the nasty side effects I have read about.

Keep us and our puppa in your prayers, please.

And another one...and a trip to the emergency vet

Topaz had another seizure at 12:45 or so. He was in his cage and I gave him a spoonful of ice cream mixed with rescue remedy afterwards.

We took him to the local Emergency vet, they are keeping him overnight and will keep an eye on him. They will also do a CBC and see if anything is up. (I won't even tell you how much the bill is)

We talked to the vet for a while and we're going to hold off on the meds unless he has another tonight or within a short period of time. Like a month I believe it was.

Topaz was not acting like himself. He was whining and crying alot and didn't really seem to know us...effects from the seizures I'm sure. Poor baby!!

In the meantime, I will be giving him some herbals and see if that helps.

It's been a long, emotionally draining night.

I really hope he's ok...

Prayers please!! Thanks!

July 13...He came to me

Topaz had another seizure tonight. He knew it was coming and came to me right before. He had it in the computer room on the floor.

It was probably the single most terrifying thing I've ever seen. So scary!! I am still a bit shaken from witnessing it.

Anyway, we kept the cats out of here best we could and I sat with him throughout the seizure and afterwards. He growled a bit, but never lunged at me...good to know.
It was about an hour ago or so, maybe an hour 15 minutes. It lasted what seemed like forever, but was probably a minute or under.

He stumbled around a bit, I was afraid of him having another one, so we put him in his cage. He's outside barking at something now. Will wait a bit before I let him in, it's a beautiful night.

Todd's got a good relationship with some different vets now because of the shelter, so he's going to call one on Monday morning.

I don't know what to do as far as meds. I really don't want to put him on the medication, I've only heard bad things about dogs that were on the seizure meds...I guess we'll see what this vet has to say.

He really needs a CBC but we can't get him to calm down enough to draw the blood. He's really high strung and not trained very well.

Anyway...will keep updating here.

Keep my puppa and us in your thoughts and prayers please!

Poor Puppa!

Poor Topaz has been through the mill today and yesterday!!

They could NOT get blood from him yesterday, he freaked out. We were in the very forever and they just couldn't do it. They were going to give him a sedative, but they couldn't even do that...

So todd brought him back in today and they gave him a sedative...waited and then tried to get the blood, he freaked, so they gave him more sedative. They waited and tried again, and he freaked out again!!! So they sent todd home after spending the whole day there practically with an oral sedative to give him monday and bring him in.

Todd took him to the shelter with him to keep an eye on him and he peed on himself twice...poor baby! He was STILL out of it when I got him from work, and his appt was at like 10am!

Then it took him until 9:30 or so to really be back to normal, he was still stumbling around and snapped at Razzle at one point (something he's NEVER done) and he snapped at me too. He's mouthy, but not like that. We called the vet like 4 times.

We're not gonna do the blood work...(vet suggested we don't too, it's too much on the dog) And we're not putting him on the seizure meds. If he has another one then we will go back and try the blood thing and everything again, but I honestly think he's only had the two.

I felt so bad for him today...poor baby, I knew he was in there somewhere, but he looked so sad and lost for a long time!

He's so much better now and is basically back to normal. We'll be putting him in his cage at night and when no one is home and I am planning getting the house back to normal, the cats mingle with the dogs now, so it's all good on that end. Just have to move some food and a litterbox and then we'll be all set to allow all animals free roam again!

I know he could have some underlying epilepsy thing going on, but everything I've read online and heard from people who gave their dogs the seizure medicine has said that it made them worse, and or they regretted jumping the gun on the meds. He's a young dog...those meds are hard on the liver...i just have a bad feeling about them.

Vet Update

The vet did bloodwork and said we'd just have to watch him. Basically, they don't want to put him on any meds...they are hard on the liver...unless this is a reoccurring thing. He may never have another one, or this could be one of many.

We'll see what happens.

His bloodwork all came back normal, so that's good at least...he's a healthy puppa!

And he's acting fine now, I'm all paranoid though.

Interesting...

I told my sister about the seizures and how the two were a year apart, almost to the day and time...which is bizarre and is really bugging me. She mentioned barometric pressure and maybe that having something to do with it.

Interesting, it seems it is a trigger.

I am going to do the bloodwork and see if the vet will hold off on the meds for a bit because those anti seizure meds scare me...

So we'll see tomorrow.

Vet Update #1

The vet wants to put him on meds because who knows if he's had more than just the two because we aren't home 24/7. Makes sense, but I think we'd know if we came home to a urine stained dog (since he pees on himself when he has one)...but the vet knows best, I guess.

We have to take him back in because they could not get a blood sample from him, he freaked out. and then they couldn't give him a tranq shot and I couldn't get a muzzle on him...yep, guess who needs obedience training? Mr. Topaz.

So...todd is going to try again tomorrow.

But he's been fine all day.