I have a three year old German Shepard mix who was diagnosed two years ago as having epilepsy, medication seemed to lessen the severity and number of seizures until last Thursday night and now in the past three days she's had at least 15 seizures. What else could be wrong?
2006-09-17 10:40:02 · 7 answers · asked by jesusfreak_357 2 in Pets ➔ Dogs
I did take her to the vet yesterday and he drew blood to check her medication levels and added diazapam (valium) to the phenobarbitol and potassium bromide she was already taking. Also I've done some research and I think she may have canine diabetes.
2006-09-17 14:49:34 · update #1
The list is long, it includes parasites, infections, metabolic desorders(i.e.: hipocalcemia), endocrine diseases, hepatic and/or renal failure, brain trauma, acute and cronic intoxications, neoplasms(tumors). Epilepsy is a primary brain disorder, commonly diagnosed by discarding other primery causes and using electroencephalography and MRI or CAT scan to aid in the diagnose.
2006-09-17 13:46:21 · answer #1 · answered by ignacio a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would get to the Vet as soon as you can ,to be sure nothing new came up. Epilepsy medicines don't work perfectly and overtime dosages can be changed or even the medication changed. If you are lucky you may just need to get his medicine tweaked. However there are many things that can cause a seizure and the best thing is to have your dogs vet check her out.
2006-09-17 18:17:00 · answer #2 · answered by sjj571 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Brain tumors can cause seizures, even in young dogs. Check with your vet to see why the increase in seizures. Toxins can also cause seizures. If you think at all it has got into anything, call your vet right now.
2006-09-17 17:47:19 · answer #3 · answered by VetTechJanet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are so many reasons/causes for seizure disorders, that it is sad that most vets just lump them as 'epilepsy' and treat them as such, rather than learn the real reason..> http://www.canine-epilepsy-guardian-angels.com/
http://ak.essortment.com/seizuresdogsca_rfmm.htm
2006-09-17 17:48:18 · answer #4 · answered by Chetco 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the person responsible for giving her the medication isnt doing it. Id check if its someone other than yourself.
2006-09-17 19:08:36 · answer #5 · answered by blackjack 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some kind of poisoning? reaction to something? just a few ideas
2006-09-17 17:47:09 · answer #6 · answered by just me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
big brain tumors
2006-09-17 17:48:20 · answer #7 · answered by bun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋