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Reader Stories: Reader Stories - Your Dog's Seizures

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Seizure disorders in dogs can be difficult to manage and frightening for owners. Read stories from real dog owners about their experiences owning a dog with seizures. Has your dog suffered from a seizure disorder? Share your story so that others can learn.

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Biggie - Unknown Cause of Seizures

All tests neg. Vet thinks might be hereditary. They are very scary but I don't think medication would help him. Most of the time he is back to normal in 5 to 10 minutes, if it was a bad one he may ta…More

Snoopy - Probable Epilepsy

No tests have been done yet. The vet has recommended that we wait a while as Snoopy is quite healthy and given a phenobarbital will affect him and slow him down quite a bit. Snoopy responds quite wel…More

Chewie - Possible Epilepsy

The vet has tentitively diagnosed eplipesy and for the last four days he has been on Phenobarbitol. It works but not for the full twelve hour period between doses. We're working with the vet on his d…More

Aiesha - Idiopathic Epilepsy

she was originally medicated with pheno and all was good for a while then it started again(no pattern) so she was also put on bromide, a couple of little fits over several months but manageable then…More

Jade - Unknown Cause of Seizure

Discussed with the vet next day over the phone. Said to do nothing at this stage as he knows her temperament as being hyper and overly nervous. May or may not happen again. Too early to put her on me…More

Bella's Seizures

They determined that she was having a brain seizure and put her on Keppar twice a day. Well, I was told to give it to her at the same time each day which worked well during the work week, but getting…More

Tilli - Unknown Cause of Seizures

Vet said without MRI it would be hard to know cause. At14 years old I think it's likely to be cancer of braib or some type of tumour(bless her )Don't know how long I should carry on letting her have …More

Zeus - Severe Epilepsy

when my dog was talking his first medication he looked fine at the beginning. then he started to become immune to it so we had to change it. we wound up having to change his meds three more times bec…More

Emma - Seizures Due to Low Potassium

She had blood tests done while heavily sedated as she had another seizure at vet. She was diagnosed as seizures due to low potassium and apparently German shepherds are prone to seizures. (we had no …More

Andy - Unknown Cause

Since this just happened last night, I have not done anything but done research on the internet. I am going to take some of the advice from the sites. We have recently moved to a new place and he is …More

Lucy, Unknown Cause of Seizures

Lucy jumped up and yelped a blood curlding yelp then she was all happy and out of the seizure. she was wagging her tail and everything like nothing at all had happened. We took her to the vet where t…More

Smokey - Idiopathic Epilepsy

Neurologist prescribed Zonisamide in addition to the Pheno Barbital. Dog responded well. Then after a few months dog started having break throughs, small partial seizures, at any given time of day or…More

Beanie - Unknown Cause of Seizures

After reading a few of these articles, I am both relieved and concerned for my little dog's health. Beanie's first episode came out of nowhere. I picked him up from his pet bed in the living room to …More

Jazz - Lymphoma and a Bizarre Illness

My husband is sleeping right now & we don't always have the best communication skills, so he could answer this better than I. Although he probably wouldn't even bother to post to this site. The reaso…More

Riley, Unknown Cause of Seizures

Unfortunately he had no treatment as he had 3 seizures in a span of 9 hours and we decided to call the vet and have him put down and out of his pain and misery. The vet stated it was the right thing …More

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