thank you for your responses. things have been crazy here with work & home stuff since I posted this. we did take Treasure to the vet. Wed she had a low grade temp & he did a full blood work up. he hadn't realized how long she'd been on her metronidazol (6 to 7 yrs). he said they should have done one 2 yrs ago. anyway, the bloodwork came back normal. but he said we were the first of 5 of the same cases (one was an other one of the vets' dogs.) all 5 had the same symptoms & they all started at the same time on Tuesday! they are attributing it a barimetric pressure change & said its an anxiety issue. so, he prescribed 100mg of benedryl caplets 3 times a day for 5 days. he said that if she still wasn't eating, to give her chicken & rice. and give her the metronidazol twice a day when we have to give her the chicken & rice. (she has SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth).
she is finally starting to perk up & act 'normal' its been several 'mommy days' in a row too!
I'm probably a bit late with this discussion, but I have a few questions to ask you.
Firstly, why would your vet have your dog on 6 to 7 years of Flagyl???? My vet would shudder at the thought! My vet won't prescribe it for more than 5 days. He says it can be a very dangerous drug with some very bad side effects. Here are some of the side effects:
Symptoms of overdose of metronidazole include the gastrointestinal signs (anorexia, vomiting) and neurologic signs including depression, ataxia, disorientation, head-tilt, tremors, bradycardia, rigidity, stiffness, and seizures. Neurologic signs may occur due to acute overdose although they are more commonly seen in animals that are on long-term moderate or high doses (oral doses greater than 66 mg/kg/day).
I hate flagyl use in dogs. I worked as a vet tech many moons ago, and saw dogs that were on it for only two weeks end up with Neurologic problems and the symptoms that your dog had. So be very careful of it's use.
Several things could have caused your dogs reactions. One would be the overuse of Flagyl. Bloat. Infection. Viruses.
What kind of dog do you have? I ask this wondering if your dog is 40 lbs or more. With dogs that are more high strung, nervous and highly sensitive can end up getting bloat, aka: gastric tortion. Which is incredibly painful and life threatening. Sometimes it can take up to a week or so before the actual tortion happens.
What kind of food do you feed? It could be that you got a bad batch of dog food?? See if your vet can find out what the commonalities are in your dog compared to the other dogs. Feed, vaccines, their temperaments, any new meds, etc.....
That is a LOT of Benadryl! Wow! People don't even take that much! Here is a good website that has good info on meds, this is a direct link to what it says about Benadryl:
Diphenhydramine (Generic Benadryl) - 1800PetMeds
Good luck, pats to your pooch! I hope she just had a one time thing that goes away and stays away!
Sorry this post is so long, but your dogs symptoms worry me!
