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Melissa,
My Rottweiler has epilepsy, and the symptoms are exactly what you had described to the group. Although usually we can hear him, he also emitts a real foul odor (Which looks like urine, but smells REALLY bad) he also foams at the mouth. The worst part is when he is done with a seizure, he's so disoriented that he snaps and growls at anything that moves. He acts like he's blind, and doesn't respond to anything. But he also turns into the most apologetic baby in the world after he snaps "back into it."
Our western vet has him on phenobarbitol, but our holistic vet says he has a better treatment than that. He's currently working on our German Shepherd, who is paralyzed, and will focus on the rottie once the shepherd is back on his feet.
Our western vet has him on phenobarbitol, but our holistic vet says he has a better treatment than that. He's currently working on our German Shepherd, who is paralyzed, and will focus on the rottie once the shepherd is back on his feet.
While I'm on that topic, I'd like to share his story, too.
Our German Shepherd, Nero, is 10 years old, and up until April 1st, acted like a 1 year old puppy. That day (Saturday?) all of a sudden, he was holding up his right-front paw. We thought he hurt his shoulder or something. (He chases his tail a lot, and he and Danny, the Rottweiler, run into each other constantly when going outside.) Later in the day we found him lying on the floor, and was unable to stand, or move for that matter. He couldn't even raise his head.
We took him to the emergency vet, and they told he he either has spinal cancer, or a bone chip from arthritis. We decided to take him to our "advanced" vet (we didn't even know about the holistic vet yet) and they recommended us to the University of Minnesota. We then took him to the U, and they did a slew of tests and decided they thought it was either spinal cancer, or some other weird disease. To find this out would be a $700 test, and a possible $2000 surgery to fix it. Not really in my budget, and if it did fix it, he would only be at 60-80% of his former self, probably never able to do stairs again.
We decided that we couldn't afford that, and that he would probably be in a lot of pain, so we'd put him down. This was Thursday. I told a friend about it and he told me to take it to this vet in downtown Saint Paul as a last resort to see if he could do anything about it.
We called this vet and they said they were booked for new customers until Mid-June. I told them he wasn't going to live that long. They took him immediately the next morning. This vet is a little different, but so are his methods. He looked him over and said, "He's got a couple of popped discs, yeast in his system, and a parasite."
We've been taking him in every 7-10 days since (We are now in week 4 of this) and he can now move his head, neck, and legs, lay in an upright position, and roll over. He is still unable to stand, but he is now on some muscle rebuilding medicines to see if we can't get him to stand up.
It's amazing. It really is! What this doctor has done for us is beyond expression. The funny thing is that his visits are cheap. Usually $20-$30, which is much more affordable...
Good luck with Kelsey! I've been told that epilepsy is a snap to fix now-a-days holistically.
Thanks for letting me voice my story, too. I have a tracking page for Nero's progress that I hope to put up tonight. It will be at http://www.isd.net/rcatlin/nero
Thanks again!
-Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Melissa Brill [mailto:melissab@...]
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 04:21 AM
To: purelypets@egroups.com
Subject: [purelypets] introductionMy names in Melissa and my baby is Kelsey. She's a two year old (well, will be 2 on the 10th) deaf dalmatian. I adopted her when she was 3 months old. I claim Pennsylvania as my US home, but currently we're living (and I'm working - Kelsey is hanging out) in Skopje, Macedonia. Before this we lived in Azerbaijan. I've joined your group because recently Kelsey had what several people tell me sounds like a seizure so I am checking out information about it. We haven't seen a vet yet, this happened on a holiday weekend and she was fine after about an hour or two. She may have had one a couple of months ago as well.Here's what happened:On Saturday(April 29th), Kelsey woke up like usual, moved to snuggle between 6 - 6:45, then got out of bed as usual. At that point she usually bugs me until I finally get up, but this time she didn't. A little while later I smelled something and thought she might have gotten sick so jumped out of bed. Kelsey was lying on the floor. She had had an accident, pooped and peed in the bedroom (which she Never does), but it was really weird because it looked as if either (1) she did it then lied down immediately where she was - not moving away from it or (2) she did it while she was lying down and didn't move away from it. That itself was a little unnerving, but it got worse, because she seemed a little disoriented and a unsteady when she got up. I cleaned everything up - she just lied there, and then we went downstairs. She was a little unsteady -- no where close to her usual rushing around, bouncing around - and when we got there, she just lied on the floor full out, no interest in the food, though she did finally drink a little water. I picked her up and sat in the chair holding her for a while, other than not acting like her normal self she didn't seem too bad - actually, after the first little while, if anyone else had seen her they would have thought she was just a calm, quiet dog - that was the worst part, she was not acting at all like her normal self. (Kelsey is a little cyclone around the house) I was planning to try to find a vet if she seemed worse or didn't seem better after a couple of hours, but within a short time she was paying attention to things again, then she was up and about, ate her food and went outside to explore the yard as usual. It was a holiday weekend so the vets were on "emergency only" duty - and since she was acting normal again, I decided not to take her. She's been fine since then. Wednesday was the first work day after the holiday, and I assumed that it wasn't worth taking her to the vet then - that whatever it was would probably be undetectable now. There was nothing new in her environment, food, etc before this happened, nothing different that I could pinpoint.So, that's our story. I don't know for sure that it is epilepsy, and if it is, it's still in the few and far between stage, but I want to find out as much as possible now.Melissa
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Melissa Brill
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Institute for Sustainable Communities
Skopje, Macedonia
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