My_Spaniels

Hi Puggles, Thanks so much for your very informative post. I did some research on the cluster seizures and it does sound very much like what he is having. Ended up telling the vet more than he could tell me! We are now on our third day of Pb and no seizures though he is definitely not back to his old self, so I am looking forward to getting through the next two weeks and getting tested for the dosage. He doesn't appear to know who we are and has 'fairy syndrome' seeing imaginary things with a lot of head jerking. But he is eating and drinking - alot! And seems to be comfortable. I was concerned about brain damage - as by the time he got to the last seizure (which ended up being 13) he was entirely non responsive. We bathed him and he just lay in the bottom of the tub and couldn't stand up for hours. After the seizures he would pace the entire house and appeared to be blind to any objects and walked himself into corners and furniture. It would last for about an hour or so, then he would rest for a while and then another seizure. Is brain damage a common thing with this? Its wonderful Monte's seizures appear to be under control. I am just hoping we get to the point very soon..fingers crossed!

Thanks Cavandra! We are going to try the diet and see if we notice any improvements. We haven't used anything new with him so I am not sure its environmental. We did think maybe diet as we rarely feed him anything other than fresh meat, rolls, chicken necks but very occasionally we give him 'Chunkers' that you can get from the fridge section at Coles - its what we call a 'take away' night. We noticed that he started this cluster seizures the night we fed him chunkers and he also vomitted them. So, to be safe, we will keep him away from those.

Hi All, My English Cocker Spaniel, Bailey (who turns three today!) has been tentatively diagnosed with epilepsy. It began approximately 6 months ago with just a sezuire about every 4-6 weeks. Yesterday it suddenly got a lot worse - he has had 10 sezuires since 10pm last night. When he was initally diagnosed, we opted to complete the standard blood test for lead poisoning, general health etc. Everything was perfect - very healthy. We decided to see how we went before commiting to further expensive tests or placing him on meds. Today, to give him some respite from this sudden onset, we will start him on Phenomav. I am not entirely comfortable with starting him on medication straight away without ruling out all other possibilites, though the tests are quite expensive and I don't want to see him keep suffering while we go through testing. I have found lots of info on epilepsy on this forum, which has been very helpful. I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced this sudden increase in seizures? Or if this is unusual, maybe it worthwhile completing the tests. Any advice would be much appreciated. Cheers, My_Spaniels