Thank you for making this. Something happened to our little one and we've narrowed it down to either a small seizure, or he was high on something. We brought him to the vet and it is still a mystery, but information like this helps.
OMG thank you so much for sharing this. I mine has been having random bouts of this VERY thing for the last couple of years and I didnt know if it was a seizure or not because its so mild compared to the Grand mals you see. THANK YOU!
The main feature that helps to distinguish a paroxysmal dyskinesia from epilepsy is the fact thatĀ the animal remains alert and responsive during the episodes.
I have a female that had three seizures today I'm waiting till morning for the doctor to be available to look at her please pray for Nakita? Does anyone have any information or advice?
I have a dog that has an occasional seizure. He tries his best to come to me so I hold him, comfort him and talk to him until itās over. He has been to the vet and has medication for emergencies.
I donāt want to be an alarmist but I must say, because I speak from experienceāā Do Not do what I did with my last dog and, I donāt know how else to say it, get āseducedā by happy talk coming from your vet (and Iām sure your vet is very good and very kind! I donāt mean that) but just donāt allow yourself to feel TOO RELIEVED that everything will āprobablyā (the operative word) Be OK. Because it may NOT over Time!!!! IOWs, please do not lull yourself into a false sense of security like I did. STAY ON ITā¼ļø Because My personal experience is ITāS PROGRESSIVE. And that is what the literature says too about epilepsy. If I could share just one heart rending bit of advice: NEVER FORGET THIS: no matter How Mild OR Infrequent the seizures areā your dog could STILL be growing a Brain Tumor without your knowledgeā Like my girl Was! By the time it was apparent something was REALLY wrong ā she was 14 ā and by then, it was Too Late!ššš The tumor, found on MRI right before I had to euthanize her, had grown too deep and too large to operate. * And all she had over the entire course of her life was 3, maybe 4 Focal Oral Seizures starting when she was very young at age 1 or 2 and lasting under 1 minute. Then Years later at age 12, 13 and 14, a total of 3 more episodes, presenting progressively More Serious each time. And now where they involved her entire body. In the first, she became ataxic, falling over when she tried to run (she was an athletic Border Collie), she had nystagmus, and had head tilt. The ER doc diagnosed her with Vestibular disease. And told me āthe wonderful thing isā that itās self-resolving!ā āWithin 4-10 days, all her signs and symptoms should vanish.ā Which, they didā but what he was NOT demonstrative enough to WARN ME of wasā this peripheral nervous system disorder that he diagnosed (Vestibular) based only on clinical signs and No Imaging (CT scan or MRI)ā that with vestibular there should be NO RECURRENCE. If there Is episodic recurrence, then itās very likely your dogās condition has a central nervous system component to itā AKA: the BRAIN is involved! And your dog could have, could be growing A BRAIN TUMOR!! THIS ER VETā NEVER WARNED ME OF THIS!! Never even once offered me a recommendation to have my girl MRIād! To turn my girlās case over to a neurologist at another hospitalš” (because then naturally he wouldnāt see/collect anymore money from us). IF he had had the decency to mention it, I Would have gotten her an MRI in a New York second! I Loved her to the moon and back, she was my very first dog, And I had health insurance for her!!! But noā instead I was lulled into a false sense of security based on a vetās hunch that all it was, was a single peripheral nervous system event. I have to accept some responsibility too in that I simultaneously had another dog who I was hugely distracted with because he had presented First! and was acutely ill with IBD, was skin and bones, and going through laparoscopic biopsies and all kinds of PCR tests. So when the ER vet told me I had basically nothing to worry about with this dog, wellā I, sadly, ran with it! Never again will I be blind-sided like this!! Never again will I be lulled into a false sense of securityā by anyone. Had she in fact received a definitive (that is the operative word here) diagnosisā she would have received treatment soonerā and I would have been better prepared to care for her. As it stood, she undoubtedly suffered 3 more years with progressively growing head pain and pressure, but dogs are so stoic, they can hide their pain and you are never going to know. She had her first recurrence, which she wasnāt supposed to have, at age 13. It was so mild and so brief, and since I wasnāt forewarned, I viewed it almost as a mirageā¦. you know, Am I really seeing what Iām seeing??? As quickly as it presented it disappeared. So I didnāt bother now a year later having another talk with the ER vet. āāā> Then finally, a year or more later, a second recurrence. Only this time, her clinical signs were Screaming that she indeed Had a Brain Tumor. My poor baby šššš! It seems odd in retrospect, but she simultaneously began both losing motor function where like a rag doll all 4 of her legs were falling into openings, like between the deck and the bottom rail. In another instance she began pacing back and forth, back and forth, from one end of the long deck to the other. And then pausing once she got there with her nose and head right up against the wood posts. Once she made her way over to me where I was standing on one side, and began pressing her head into my leg, I knew something was seriously wrong. Exactly 15 hours later she was placed in an MRI, and it was then that the neurologist gave me the devastating news.
āāā> I am writing All of this not only to educate others of what could happen in a similar circumstanceāā> but I also now have a second Border Collie who at age 6 has just presented with his 2nd, same, focal oral seizure. Only THIS TIMEāāI am embarking NOW on beginning the journey to obtain a definitive diagnosis. No more fuzzy stuff. No more waiting on the sidelines in the dark and praying everything is going to be OK without any diagnostic testing. No this time, I am being Pro-Active; as Pro Active as is medically reasonable. I wish everybody well with their epileptic sweethearts. We go in 3 days for our first visit to discuss the matter with our relatively new veterinarian of a year, Dr Gary Richter, who is a super star in our community, and who the people voted for in 2016 as āAmericaās Favorite Veterinarian.ā Please hold us in your prayersšš¼ as I hold your dogs in mine!šš¼ Be well everyone!
Good day. We have a little sausage dog who has similar symptoms but initially it seemed as though he is in pain. I am not sure if he was just afraid of what was happening. Our vet has taken multiple x-rays as and done multiple tests. We have not tested for epilepsy yet though.
My dog is going through this rn I suspect, she is a small chihuahua and she has had this thing where she is twitching and shivering laying on her side kinda and looking back and forth sporadically and she wonāt look at me or anything:( Iām super scared, sheās my first dog and I donāt wanna lose her
Iām on here looking for answers. I took my Cali girl to the vet yesterday because she had something like this. They said it wasnāt a seizer but to me it was just like this. I showed them my video and they said āshe got into somethingā and i know for a fact she didnāt. Iām with my dog 24 hours a day because Iām diabetic and havenāt been to work for months. Iām thinking about finding a second opinion but just trying to do research for myself. I wish o was able to show you my video to see what you think. š¢
My 3 year old Jack Russell gets this as well. He gets it mostly in summer. He just had two this morning and I also try to calm him down. Thank you for this. Its so sad that these babies have to deal with this š¢
Everyone, please be aware that dogs have seizures for soooo many reasons. My dog has epilepsy and her seizures look more or less like this, but there are many other things a seizure could be a side effect for. Seek medical attention IMMEDIATELY if your dog has a seizure lasting more than 5 minutes. IMMEDIATELY. It could likely be caused by many other things
My weimeraner is 15 and just now having very short episodes likes this; I'm not sure if they're seizures because of the length (only a handful of seconds), but the stiffness and the expression is spot-on, and she's stressed and panting after it stops. I'm really scared that this is just her old age catching up to her, so it's nice to know some techniques to just keep her more comfortable until I can get a vet to take a look. I've had her since I was 9, and now I'm 24, and I was really hoping she might hold out until 16, but we'll have to see what's in the cards for her.
This is exactly what it looks like in my dog. As sheās never gone, the vets said that itās not epilepsy but I kept on telling them that it is. I have my next appointment in one hour and hopefully, theyāll give me some anticonvulsants for my pupā¦
This is pretty much what is happening to my dog. He has had like 8 seizures in the past 3.5 years. They are very mild. My dog is a male husky, and he is obese, he is the standard size husky and he should be 60 to 65 lbs but he is 86lbs and when yo do the math that is 40% overweight, a dog is considered obese when he is 20% above the ideal weight. So yes he is obese. With my vet we have noticed that his seizures get more frequent when he is at his fattest. The vet told me that obesity can cause seizures so as long as my dog is obese we can not say that he is having Idiopathic epilepsy because the way idiopathic epilepsy is diagnosed by rulling out all other possible causes. The last time he had a seizure they were 10 days apart that really got me worried because he was having them may be once every month for the past 4 months ,so I took him to the vet and he has never been fatter ,86 lbs. He is now on a diet just eating chicken breast and a little bit of kibble , he has lost 6lbs and today we reach 45 days without seizures.
My little Bella has seizures, with age she has a bit more of a recovery period vs when she was younger. She usually has grand mal seizures and she urinates and defecates every time. It's literally a wet shitty mess. Once it's over she gets up and paces all over. I picked her up from the emergency vet a few hrs ago after a 24hr admission bc of cluster seizures, there she received valium during a focal seizure. I really hate this, she so small and delicate and all I can do while she is violently seizing is preventing her from hitting her head.
I'm so sorry. I hate seeing this. Such a precious babyš. He doesn't deserve this.
Thank you for making this. Something happened to our little one and we've narrowed it down to either a small seizure, or he was high on something. We brought him to the vet and it is still a mystery, but information like this helps.
Thank you for making this video. I believe my 3 yr old dog may have just had a mild seizure. This confirms that what just happened to my Zeus. š
OMG thank you so much for sharing this. I mine has been having random bouts of this VERY thing for the last couple of years and I didnt know if it was a seizure or not because its so mild compared to the Grand mals you see. THANK YOU!
Olej Marichuana..
.
The main feature that helps to distinguish a paroxysmal dyskinesia from epilepsy is the fact thatĀ the animal remains alert and responsive during the episodes.
Iwouldnottouchthatdogorfeeditiwouldzlapitontopofthatidontcareofdogsalotallithinckofisslappimgdogs24hoursidothatwithmyfuckingdogdontfeelsorryforthatstupidassdog
I have a female that had three seizures today I'm waiting till morning for the doctor to be available to look at her please pray for Nakita? Does anyone have any information or advice?
I have a dog that has an occasional seizure. He tries his best to come to me so I hold him, comfort him and talk to him until itās over. He has been to the vet and has medication for emergencies.
My chihuahua has similar ones to š¢
Poor baby š My girl has these from time to time and itās heartbreaking to see her go through this.
I donāt want to be an alarmist but I must say, because I speak from experienceāā Do Not do what I did with my last dog and, I donāt know how else to say it, get āseducedā by happy talk coming from your vet (and Iām sure your vet is very good and very kind! I donāt mean that) but just donāt allow yourself to feel TOO RELIEVED that everything will āprobablyā (the operative word) Be OK. Because it may NOT over Time!!!! IOWs, please do not lull yourself into a false sense of security like I did. STAY ON ITā¼ļø Because My personal experience is ITāS PROGRESSIVE. And that is what the literature says too about epilepsy. If I could share just one heart rending bit of advice: NEVER FORGET THIS: no matter How Mild OR Infrequent the seizures areā your dog could STILL be growing a Brain Tumor without your knowledgeā Like my girl Was! By the time it was apparent something was REALLY wrong ā she was 14 ā and by then, it was Too Late!ššš The tumor, found on MRI right before I had to euthanize her, had grown too deep and too large to operate. * And all she had over the entire course of her life was 3, maybe 4 Focal Oral Seizures starting when she was very young at age 1 or 2 and lasting under 1 minute. Then Years later at age 12, 13 and 14, a total of 3 more episodes, presenting progressively More Serious each time. And now where they involved her entire body. In the first, she became ataxic, falling over when she tried to run (she was an athletic Border Collie), she had nystagmus, and had head tilt. The ER doc diagnosed her with Vestibular disease. And told me āthe wonderful thing isā that itās self-resolving!ā āWithin 4-10 days, all her signs and symptoms should vanish.ā Which, they didā but what he was NOT demonstrative enough to WARN ME of wasā this peripheral nervous system disorder that he diagnosed (Vestibular) based only on clinical signs and No Imaging (CT scan or MRI)ā that with vestibular there should be NO RECURRENCE. If there Is episodic recurrence, then itās very likely your dogās condition has a central nervous system component to itā AKA: the BRAIN is involved! And your dog could have, could be growing A BRAIN TUMOR!! THIS ER VETā NEVER WARNED ME OF THIS!! Never even once offered me a recommendation to have my girl MRIād! To turn my girlās case over to a neurologist at another hospitalš” (because then naturally he wouldnāt see/collect anymore money from us). IF he had had the decency to mention it, I Would have gotten her an MRI in a New York second! I Loved her to the moon and back, she was my very first dog, And I had health insurance for her!!! But noā instead I was lulled into a false sense of security based on a vetās hunch that all it was, was a single peripheral nervous system event. I have to accept some responsibility too in that I simultaneously had another dog who I was hugely distracted with because he had presented First! and was acutely ill with IBD, was skin and bones, and going through laparoscopic biopsies and all kinds of PCR tests. So when the ER vet told me I had basically nothing to worry about with this dog, wellā I, sadly, ran with it! Never again will I be blind-sided like this!! Never again will I be lulled into a false sense of securityā by anyone. Had she in fact received a definitive (that is the operative word here) diagnosisā she would have received treatment soonerā and I would have been better prepared to care for her. As it stood, she undoubtedly suffered 3 more years with progressively growing head pain and pressure, but dogs are so stoic, they can hide their pain and you are never going to know. She had her first recurrence, which she wasnāt supposed to have, at age 13. It was so mild and so brief, and since I wasnāt forewarned, I viewed it almost as a mirageā¦. you know, Am I really seeing what Iām seeing??? As quickly as it presented it disappeared. So I didnāt bother now a year later having another talk with the ER vet. āāā> Then finally, a year or more later, a second recurrence. Only this time, her clinical signs were Screaming that she indeed Had a Brain Tumor. My poor baby šššš! It seems odd in retrospect, but she simultaneously began both losing motor function where like a rag doll all 4 of her legs were falling into openings, like between the deck and the bottom rail. In another instance she began pacing back and forth, back and forth, from one end of the long deck to the other. And then pausing once she got there with her nose and head right up against the wood posts. Once she made her way over to me where I was standing on one side, and began pressing her head into my leg, I knew something was seriously wrong. Exactly 15 hours later she was placed in an MRI, and it was then that the neurologist gave me the devastating news.
āāā> I am writing All of this not only to educate others of what could happen in a similar circumstanceāā> but I also now have a second Border Collie who at age 6 has just presented with his 2nd, same, focal oral seizure. Only THIS TIMEāāI am embarking NOW on beginning the journey to obtain a definitive diagnosis. No more fuzzy stuff. No more waiting on the sidelines in the dark and praying everything is going to be OK without any diagnostic testing. No this time, I am being Pro-Active; as Pro Active as is medically reasonable. I wish everybody well with their epileptic sweethearts. We go in 3 days for our first visit to discuss the matter with our relatively new veterinarian of a year, Dr Gary Richter, who is a super star in our community, and who the people voted for in 2016 as āAmericaās Favorite Veterinarian.ā Please hold us in your prayersšš¼ as I hold your dogs in mine!šš¼
Be well everyone!
Thank you for sharing.
Good day. We have a little sausage dog who has similar symptoms but initially it seemed as though he is in pain. I am not sure if he was just afraid of what was happening. Our vet has taken multiple x-rays as and done multiple tests. We have not tested for epilepsy yet though.
awww poor baby:(
My dog is going through this rn I suspect, she is a small chihuahua and she has had this thing where she is twitching and shivering laying on her side kinda and looking back and forth sporadically and she wonāt look at me or anything:( Iām super scared, sheās my first dog and I donāt wanna lose her
Iām on here looking for answers. I took my Cali girl to the vet yesterday because she had something like this. They said it wasnāt a seizer but to me it was just like this. I showed them my video and they said āshe got into somethingā and i know for a fact she didnāt. Iām with my dog 24 hours a day because Iām diabetic and havenāt been to work for months. Iām thinking about finding a second opinion but just trying to do research for myself. I wish o was able to show you my video to see what you think. š¢
My 3 year old Jack Russell gets this as well. He gets it mostly in summer. He just had two this morning and I also try to calm him down. Thank you for this. Its so sad that these babies have to deal with this š¢
Everyone, please be aware that dogs have seizures for soooo many reasons. My dog has epilepsy and her seizures look more or less like this, but there are many other things a seizure could be a side effect for. Seek medical attention IMMEDIATELY if your dog has a seizure lasting more than 5 minutes. IMMEDIATELY. It could likely be caused by many other things
Itās really hard to tell if a dog had mild seizure
My weimeraner is 15 and just now having very short episodes likes this; I'm not sure if they're seizures because of the length (only a handful of seconds), but the stiffness and the expression is spot-on, and she's stressed and panting after it stops. I'm really scared that this is just her old age catching up to her, so it's nice to know some techniques to just keep her more comfortable until I can get a vet to take a look.
I've had her since I was 9, and now I'm 24, and I was really hoping she might hold out until 16, but we'll have to see what's in the cards for her.
This is exactly what it looks like in my dog.
As sheās never gone, the vets said that itās not epilepsy but I kept on telling them that it is.
I have my next appointment in one hour and hopefully, theyāll give me some anticonvulsants for my pupā¦
Absolutely gorgeous dog
Bless him
My dog had one and died today
My dog has it. Every 5 days š
I believe touching and talking makes them more nervous just be quiet and leave them alone the dog will be ok just shut up
This is pretty much what is happening to my dog. He has had like 8 seizures in the past 3.5 years. They are very mild. My dog is a male husky, and he is obese, he is the standard size husky and he should be 60 to 65 lbs but he is 86lbs and when yo do the math that is 40% overweight, a dog is considered obese when he is 20% above the ideal weight. So yes he is obese. With my vet we have noticed that his seizures get more frequent when he is at his fattest. The vet told me that obesity can cause seizures so as long as my dog is obese we can not say that he is having Idiopathic epilepsy because the way idiopathic epilepsy is diagnosed by rulling out all other possible causes. The last time he had a seizure they were 10 days apart that really got me worried because he was having them may be once every month for the past 4 months ,so I took him to the vet and he has never been fatter ,86 lbs. He is now on a diet just eating chicken breast and a little bit of kibble , he has lost 6lbs and today we reach 45 days without seizures.
Same problem with my dog plz help me what to do I don't know about that he is Labrador 3 years old I need help
My little Bella has seizures, with age she has a bit more of a recovery period vs when she was younger. She usually has grand mal seizures and she urinates and defecates every time. It's literally a wet shitty mess. Once it's over she gets up and paces all over. I picked her up from the emergency vet a few hrs ago after a 24hr admission bc of cluster seizures, there she received valium during a focal seizure. I really hate this, she so small and delicate and all I can do while she is violently seizing is preventing her from hitting her head.
My dog is like this too she has a fit for just under five minutes. X