French bulldog had a seizure last night
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Just a quick update.
Thank god, He hasn't had another seizure in getting on for 72 hours now, Strange how he had 3 within 10 hours and not one within 72 hours...
The vet said as one of his seizures was around 3 minutes long, He has been prescribed 30mg of Epiphen twice a day.
We will start him on this tonight and hope for the best...
Thanks again for all your replies and experiences.
Thank god, He hasn't had another seizure in getting on for 72 hours now, Strange how he had 3 within 10 hours and not one within 72 hours...
The vet said as one of his seizures was around 3 minutes long, He has been prescribed 30mg of Epiphen twice a day.
We will start him on this tonight and hope for the best...
Thanks again for all your replies and experiences.
D1on said:
Just a quick update.
Thank god, He hasn't had another seizure in getting on for 72 hours now, Strange how he had 3 within 10 hours and not one within 72 hours...
The vet said as one of his seizures was around 3 minutes long, He has been prescribed 30mg of Epiphen twice a day.
We will start him on this tonight and hope for the best...
Thanks again for all your replies and experiences.
Glad to hear that. 30mg Epiphen/12 hours is pretty much the starter dose. Hopefully that will sort him. You might want to consider keeping a fit diary.Thank god, He hasn't had another seizure in getting on for 72 hours now, Strange how he had 3 within 10 hours and not one within 72 hours...
The vet said as one of his seizures was around 3 minutes long, He has been prescribed 30mg of Epiphen twice a day.
We will start him on this tonight and hope for the best...
Thanks again for all your replies and experiences.
Also, if you want tips for online meds suppliers, let us know.
Sporky said:
Clusters are not uncommon. Ours does 36 hours of fits - a dozen or so before she was switched to the current medication; last set was only four, I think. You may need to go through a few drugs / combinations to get things under good control.
What drug regimes have you tried & what regime is it now, if you don't mind me asking? We started with Pexion, went up through the doses, with Levetiracetam as an add-on when the clusters started. That didn't seem to reduce the frequency or severity, but reduced how many seizures in each cluster a bit. We'd got up to just shy of the maximum Pexion dose and she was taking nearly two weeks to recover.
Now on the lowest dose of phenobarbital. Clusters seem to be 3 months apart, with far fewer, shorter seizures, and back to normal in maybe 5 minutes.
Now on the lowest dose of phenobarbital. Clusters seem to be 3 months apart, with far fewer, shorter seizures, and back to normal in maybe 5 minutes.
Sporky said:
We started with Pexion, went up through the doses, with Levetiracetam as an add-on when the clusters started. That didn't seem to reduce the frequency or severity, but reduced how many seizures in each cluster a bit. We'd got up to just shy of the maximum Pexion dose and she was taking nearly two weeks to recover.
Now on the lowest dose of phenobarbital. Clusters seem to be 3 months apart, with far fewer, shorter seizures, and back to normal in maybe 5 minutes.
Cheers.Now on the lowest dose of phenobarbital. Clusters seem to be 3 months apart, with far fewer, shorter seizures, and back to normal in maybe 5 minutes.
Seems a pretty good outcome, considering the history.
So, 8 months on after his first and last (afaik) seizure, still taking his meds daily.
I got home yesterday and he was breathing fast for a few hours like he'd ran a marathon and seemed very lethargic & tired so I imagine he had a seizure whilst I wasn't home...
He's better this morning and seems back to normal...
I got home yesterday and he was breathing fast for a few hours like he'd ran a marathon and seemed very lethargic & tired so I imagine he had a seizure whilst I wasn't home...
He's better this morning and seems back to normal...
Edited by D1on on Wednesday 25th January 03:40
Our Staffie spent his last few years on 1/2 tablet (30mg) of Epirepress (Phenobarbital), twice a day to prevent him fitting. He was very skilled at eating all the food around the tablet, leaving the half tablet laying in his licked-clean bowl. Pushing the tablet inside a chunk of sausage overcame this though.
The fits are traumatic to watch, but he didn't seem to suffer any ill-effects afterwards.
The fits are traumatic to watch, but he didn't seem to suffer any ill-effects afterwards.
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