Anyone know anything about seizures in dogs?

Ugh I don't have any answers but I'm sorry you are dealing with this. I had a dog that had vestibular syndrome so she would walk like a drunken sailor with her eyes pinging back and forth but never dealt with seizures. Sounds like it's time for a checkup.

A friend has insurance for his two dogs. One dog did not want to eat or let him near her one day. He took her to the Veterinarian right away. Long story short she had cancer then received treatment through his plan. Then a couple of weeks later the one year old dog fell down the stairs. Again, back to the Veterinarian and found out it has a genetic problem with the knees and needed surgery.

One of my Mum's dogs starting having seizures it turned out He had Epilepsy,
He is on medication now and is getting back to normal He is a Shollie A German Shepard Border Collie cross . He is super smart a big softie but a good guard dog when required , He also likes to try and herd My mums four cats lol

I hope your dog gets well soon

My previous Whippet had Epilepsy. He was on Phenobarbital and Potassium Bromide which pretty much controlled the seizures, but he did have breakthrough seizures every few months. They were almost always at night and seemed to correlate with the lunar cycles. He had a pretty normal and happy dog life and lived until he was 12 years old.

There was a website I used to visit called Epilepsy Angels that had tons of helpful information. Not sure if it there anymore.

I searched for what I posted in the past and copied and pasted below the --- . Michel and the others that have had seizures, for my dogs, they needed to be held, it comforted them. In fact, Michel would seek me out to make sure I held him. The below worked for my dogs, maybe not all since it would depend on what is causing the seizures.
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Michel, my avatar, started having them at 2 years old. Three weeks later, he had another one. I put him on Childrens DHA after talking to the owner of the local health food store. The vet said they'd have to be closer together before she wanted to put him on anything and I preferred to go as natural as possible.

Since most Childrens DHA has a fruity flavor that dogs don’t like much, I’d pour some cod liver oil over it, it is similar to DHA but does taste better to DOGS than kids! Michel weighed 6 pounds and I think I gave him about 1/8th teaspoon a day so that gives you an idea of dosage.

He had (water on the brain) hydrocephalus at birth but didn't have it as bad as one of his sisters, she only lived about 3 weeks, started having seizures. The vet gave Michel only about 2 months to live but he made it 9 years, 2 months, 10 days. His little heart just gave out because he wasn't born with all the chambers.

After figuring out how much worked best for him, he only had one very very mild seizure a year. In fact, if I hadn't learned so much about seizures in dogs, I wouldn't have realized it WAS a seizure.

On thing, keep crushed ice in a few baggies in the freezer, not frozen vegetables, has to be crushed ice. If a dog starts having a seizure, put the bag of ice on his spine between the bottom rib and hip bone and it can and did stop Michel's seizures. Hopefully, it will work with your dog.

I found out about it on the internet and my vet confirmed it did work. I think she said it cooled down the spinal cord, that it gets hot when a dog is seizing. I started to ask her, why didn't you TELL me!!!

Good luck and I hope things work out well for your dog.I think the reason that vets want to wait until seizures are so close together is that the drugs that stop seizures are really harder on the dogs health than the seizures are.

My little Dachshund Michel, started having them at 2 years old. Three weeks later, he had another one. I put him on Childrens DHA after talking to the owner of the local health food store. The vet said they'd have to be closer together before she wanted to put him on anything and I preferred to go as natural as possible. It is by Nordic Naturals and has a strawberry flavor that kids might like but dogs not so much. Since it is cod liver oil, plus more of “something”, I think Omega 3 oils, I kept natural cod liver oil and put a little on top of the strawberry flavored and the rascal liked the awful tasting stuff. It comes in either soft gels which I had to pierce with a pin and squirt on the food and liquid which was better because I could use a dropper to dispense.

It doesn’t immediately stop them but it took at least 2 or 3 months, each seizure he had would be milder and milder until them seemed to completely go away. If he had one, it was so mild that it was hard to tell. And as I say below, it got down to where he had one extremely mild seizure once a year and I wouldn’t have realized it was a seizure if I hadn’t been through it before with him.

He weighed only 6 pounds and as I recall, I gave him about 6 drops of the DHA on top of his food and a few drops of regular cod liver oil since he didn’t like the strawberry flavor. I think I did it twice a day. I fed him three times a day since he seemed to have low blood sugar.

I put it on top of his food or something he loved so he would eat it. I know at least one of his seizures was caused by low blood sugar because he wasn’t feeling good one day and didn’t eat most of the day. I started boiling chicken for him and shredding it with my mixer and sprinkling it over the top of his food and poured a little chicken broth over his food and soaking it in. He had an underbite so this helped him eat better.

He had (water on the brain) hydrocephalus at birth but didn't have it as bad as one of his sisters, she only lived about 3 weeks, started having seizures. The vet gave Michel only about 2 months to live but he made it 9 years, 2 months, 10 days. His little heart just gave out because he wasn't born with all the chambers.

After figuring out how much worked best for him, he only had one very very mild seizure a year. In fact, if I hadn't learned so much about seizures in dogs, I wouldn't have realized it WAS a seizure.

On thing, keep crushed ice in a few baggies in the freezer, not frozen vegetables, has to be crushed ice. If a dog starts having a seizure, put the bag of ice on his spine between the bottom rib and hip bone and it can and did stop Michel's seizures. Hopefully, it will work with your dog.

I found out about it on the internet and my vet confirmed it did work. I think she said it cooled down the spinal cord, that it gets hot when a dog is seizing. I started to ask her, why didn't you TELL me!!!

Good luck and I hope things work out well for your dog.
Must be! In a way, I kind of became a veterinarian. When I was 16 and 17, I took care of two sets of baby birds, Orchard Orioles and Mockingbirds. Both sets of baby birds would have died if I hadn't taken them in when their nests were destroyed in a storm. Fed them and kept them alive, caught crickets for them to catch and eat and slowly introduced them to the outside world. I know for sure that they lived for weeks outside in the wild, they'd come back to visit.

And several of the dogs you see in my signature had some health problems. Especially the little guy in my avatar. Veterinarian gave him maybe 2 months to live, he was born with hydrocephalus and didn't have all the chambers of his heart or there was a hole between chambers, don't remember which. He was also prone to seizures, especially if I worked too much and he didn't get enough attention.

I learned childrens DHA helped tremendously with that, he seizures dwindled to one very very minor one once a year until his last 3 months. Crushed ice in a bag placed at the base of his spine made seizures go away if he had one. This is just the tip of the iceberg of the things I learned to help him and his siblings but it helped him to live 9 YEARS, 2 months and 10 days. He was such a happy little guy and such a social butterfly, loved attention from everyone but especially me.

I am so sorry. My dog had cardiogenic seizures. So they didn’t arise in the brain or were neurologic. Her little heart didn’t work well and when she exerted herself physically or emotionally, her heart couldn’t meet her bodies oxygen demands and she’d flop over and have a seizure. So in her case, she took a heart medicine and we limited her exertion and that fixed it.

She went on to live several more happy and healthy years once we got that fixed. I hope your vet can help you pup similarly.