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I've always loved dogs and when I moved out I wanted a companion to share my life with. What I didn't know I would be signing up for was having a "special needs" pet. Ollie is my world tho. His big eyes caught mine and it was love at first woof. The problem was, Ollie has a history of seizures. The rescue I got him from said his seizures were very "mild" and was only taking phenobarbital pill the morning and a Vitamin E pill at night. So I kept up with this regime for 2 months before taking him to our vet when the pills were running low. No seizures. Vet and I agreed for try and see how he was after stopping the meds since the dosage was low and basically ineffective. We went a whole month until Ollie had a seizure. It wasn't near mild. It was full blown thrashing and paddling, urination, foaming at the mouth. Terrifying. I was shook up. Thought it was stress. Two days later, Ollie had 3 seizures in 12 hours. Immediately called the vet and Ollie was put on taking pheno 2 times a day. We were good for a month. 3 days before we were to do a blood test to check his levels, Ollie had 5 more seizures over a weekend. So we tested his levels and increased the pheno to 1.5 pills in the morning and 1 pill at night. 2 weeks later Ollie has 4 seizures within12 hours so I rushed him to an emergency vet. He was stabilized and dosed up on new medication. Keppra was added to his daily regimen every 8 hours. The next day we had bloodwork done and it turned out he had Erlichia and Bebesia, 2 tick diseases. The vet said both of these disorders could possibly have neurological affects and so we treated him. He took minocylcine 2x a day for 30 days and had 2 imidicarb injections as well. (Needless to say I'm up to my nose in vet bill debt) and I thought maybe we fought this and defeated it.
It's been 5 weeks since Ollie's last bought of seizures. And just 2 hours ago he had a seizure. It wasn't too bad tho. Lasted maybe 40 seconds and he came around in 5 minutes or less.
I'm scared. Terrified. I'm too afraid to sleep. I look like death from trying to stay awake. I didn't know how hard this would be. I'm going crazy dealing with this alone and I wish I had help. I love my little boy so much but he's sick and I'm almost broke because of it. I can't sleep or eat normal and it's because of him. I feel like a terrible mom.
Does anyone have any advice on caring for a dog with seizures?!
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It's been 5 weeks since Ollie's last bought of seizures. And just 2 hours ago he had a seizure. It wasn't too bad tho. Lasted maybe 40 seconds and he came around in 5 minutes or less.
I'm scared. Terrified. I'm too afraid to sleep. I look like death from trying to stay awake. I didn't know how hard this would be. I'm going crazy dealing with this alone and I wish I had help. I love my little boy so much but he's sick and I'm almost broke because of it. I can't sleep or eat normal and it's because of him. I feel like a terrible mom.
Does anyone have any advice on caring for a dog with seizures?!
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