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Thanks everyone for the replies, I guess the hardest thing when you are writing about advents or issues is that it doesn't sound right, I am hopeless with these forum things as far as answering people individual comments or puting quotes in then answering them so bare with me. It was a good 12 months since we lost our old dog that she started to show the fear and or anxiety symptoms, the prozac was prescribed as she was escaping the yard and taking off from fear and or anxiety, (we thought at first it was being lonely but then discovered it was noise phobia), after she had her first head tremor I asked the vet whether it could be the medication and whether I should take her of it, she said that if a dog is already prone to have fits that it may bring them on, (or something along those lines), so we lowered the dose. Symptoms she had prior to being on the medication were, sudden fear/anxiety she hadn't had before, the different sized pupils, (notcied in the past six months) she had had a funny mouth seizure thing that I didn't realise what it was until I started looking all this stuff up, in fact she has had a couple of times she had acted a bit off, but just didn't think to much of it, lack of appitite, increasingly sleeping more, less active, I remember saying to the vet its like she gets headaches and you can see her frown and cringe at load noises. Since being on the medication the latest symptoms are the head tremors, she has had 4 or 5 that I have seen, her appitite had improved, her fear/anxiety has improved, she has had another of the mouth seizures and a few other funny turns. I think the greatest evidence that something isn't right neurologicaly is the different sized pupils which were present prior to the medication, the changes in the pupils with out head trauma is a real worrying sign. On the weekend my son mowed the back lawn, never has she been worried by the lawn mower, she wasn't scared but she did go and press her head into a bush, like the noise really hurt, I get headaches and sometimes migraines and that is what I think she is getting, its like you can see it in her eyes. At this point I think we will just take each day as it comes, we have decided to enjoy her as much as possible and spend as much time with her as we can and make her life as comfortable as possible.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts, she comes to work with me and loves travelling in the car, she is happy to lay at work on her bed during the day although she has had enough by the afternoon and wants to go home, while she has quaility of life I will keep her going, she has good days and bad days, we are becoming familiar with her behaviour indicating that things are not so good, in some ways I guess we are lucky that we can spend almost every day together but this is also not so good as you get to see there off moments more and more, it sounds like alot of people have been down this road before me and I appreciate there stories and what they have been through.

I am sorry that you went through this, thankfully she hasn't shown any aggression towards any people, she normally loves people and other animals, but as her behaviour has changed so much, I am very mindful of the kids putting there faces near her and how they interact with her incase she snaps, thanks for telling me what you went through.

Thank you everyone for your replies, a couple of other things I forgot to mention, she has times when she shivers and shakes all over, like she is cold or scared, she sleeps alot, she doesn't seem very happy, like she is really sad all the time, (prehaps a side effect of the medication), her face/lips even look sad, not her happy staffy smile she used to have, she is certainly not herself, her temprement has changed, from being the most placid, nothing fazes dog, even to the point were chickens could eat from her bowl, now she wants to kill the chooks, she is more protective and not as easy going, We along with the vets are pretty sure she has a brain tumor or lesions of some sort, I guess we need to decide whether getting a definate diagnosis is going to help much, hubby is convinced that it wouldn't be worth it, my heart aches......

Hello all, firstly a bit of background, our 4 and a half year old staffy, has been a great dog, when we first got her at 8 weeks we had a old dog so she always had a mate, when she was about 3 we lost the old boy to cancer and she coped ok, then suddenly a couple of months ago she started to escape our yard and our neighbour would ring to say she was over there playing with there dogs, thinking she was lonely we started to think about getting another dog, we put plans in place for a new puppy, one day when I was out in the yard with her, she went crazy tring to escape after hearing a gunshot nearby, we live out of town and she had never been bothered by loud noises before, then when we were going away for a couple of days our neighbour rang to say she was over there, thankfully we were only an hour in to our two hour trip and we went home and got her and took her away with us, lucky we were going camping, so taking her was fine, whilst camping some people let of some crackers in the camp and thankfully she was on a lead as she took of like a shot and was terrified, when we got home from camping, we took her to the vet to see if they could figure out what was going on, she seemed to think it was behavioural although I thought it was strange to change so suddenly, she prescribed prozac. We decided to bring her to work with us so she was rarely alone, one day at work the kids were there and they said she was shaking all over, by the time I got over to her she was having a head tremor, I rang the vet and told them I was concerned about her, I also noticed she had two different sized pupils, I mentioned I had also noticed the different sized pupils in the past say six months previously, but stupidly thought it was just the lighting as she was inside at the time, they said just keep an eye on her and see how she goes, i asked to see the vet so they can see her pupils, so we seen the vet a few days later and sure enough the pupils were different, one hardly reacts at all, she really didnt know what was going on and was going to get back to me, in the mean time she had a few more of the head tremor episodes as well as a few funny turns were she just acts strange and a funny little turn were she put her nose into the ground then almost did a head stand, she has also had a couple of times when her mouth appears to be having a seizure, so today the vet nurse rings me and says that they can do a referal to specialist for mri or cat scan, the specialist is about 3 hours away and diagnosis is obviously is very costly, dont get me wrong I dont have a problem spending money on my beloved pets but spending a couple of thousand dollars to confirm what I am pretty sure I already know and reading about so many people speading 10's of thousands of dollars on treatment to still have a devistating outcome, this worries me, we have in the past spent 3,500 dollars to try and save a dog only to have her still passaway, so I guess that is playing on my mind, I guess I am interested to hear from anyone that has dealt with this type of thing and anyone that has any clues as to what maybe going on with our girl, thanks in advance.