EDIT Dog Seizures Help Please

Seizures scared the heck out of me. I had two dogs that had seizures. In both cases it was medication related. My first dog it was the heartworm pill Sentinel. It took me three months of doses to isolate that the seizures occurred after I gave the pill. We switched him to another heartworm med and he never had a problem again.

Chloe's Chihuahua had a seizure so bad he went blind for 5 days. We were scared his sight was never going to come back. But it did. It was the flea medication Bravecto that caused his seizures. I caught that sooner for him than the other dog because of the past experience I had. It's been like 3 years he's been off the Bravecto and not another seizure.

This is my experience with dogs with seizures. Neither of them had epilepsy.

I know you must be freaked out. They are scary as heck. ❤️

I’m so sorry. Seizures are so scary.
Our pup has epilepsy. To diagnose, they wanted to see if he had more, and how far apart. After he had 5, 2 in 1 day, they put him on Keppra. As far as we know, he has not had any since 2018.

I hope you are able to find the cause, and can get it under control.

Our dog Missy started having grand mal seizures when she was about 18 mos. old. After ruling out other causes, and as her seizures started to happen more frequently, our vet put her on phenobarbital. The phenobarb made her incontinent so we added Proin.

We learned that canine epilepsy generally shows up between 1 and 4 years old, so it's possible your dog is epileptic. The good news is that, with meds, Missy has had a happy and normal seizure-free dog life and is now an old lady of 12 who still enjoys romping at the dog park.

Wishing you and your pup the best.

The kids did not have to adjust and play with dose with Keppra to see what was effective, but they started out on the Keppra every eight hours, three times a day.  It is important to give the meds on time apparently.  They had to switch to the 12hr extended release Keppra given twice a day,  because with work and stuff they just could not do every 8 hours.  It seems to be working fine.

Sending you and your doggy best wishes. If it is epilepsy, that’s actually good news. Dogs with epilepsy can and do live long, happy lives.

I just posted a thread about this last week. My dog has had two now. The first one was a few months ago, and of course it happened on a Saturday when the vet has limited hours. The dog lost all control of his legs, was flopping around on the floor and pooped himself then flopped right into that. 😭 I called the vet and they said it could just be a one off and to just watch him over the rest of the weekend and if anything else happened to call the emergency vet ($$$) 🙄 because our vet is an hour away. He was fine the rest of the weekend so I didn’t worry about it too much.

Now last week he had one again, this time in the middle of the night. Our little dog started barking and I head some thumping downstairs but just thought the big dog was scratching at himself and thumping his foot on the floor. I didn’t realize what had happened until the next morning when I saw the poop smeared into the hallway grout at the bottom of the stairs, and the robot vacuum that had been accidentally turned on by the dog’s thrashing and then was decimated by running straight through the mess. 😭😭 We were supposed to have a vet appointment last Friday, but DH didn’t realize until we got to the vet that he made the appointment for the wrong vet clinic. Since there was no way we were going to make it there before the appointment time, he cancelled that one and made another appointment for this Friday so the dog still hasn’t been seen.

I decided not to give him the Heartgard and NexGuard that he normally would get on the first of the month after hearing something on the radio about not giving it to dogs with a history of seizures.

We had to adjust a couple of times for my lab. And they did do regular blood testing to see how his body is doing with it otherwise (I don't remember specifically what they tested for as he has been gone almost 10 years now)