Loki at emergency vet tonight...seizures?

[Kyrock]

I am hoping someone else on the forum knows something that may help me...so...

This afternoon my 8 year old pup Loki was fine. I went and picked kids up from school and came home 20 minutes later. Loki went to his foodbowl like he always does. After putting the food in his bowl it was like a switch was flipped. Loki started yelping and barking and jumping up and down. He then started running around the house in a complete panic. It was all I could do to grab on to him. He snapped at my 4 year old daughter so I let him go again to get her away and opened door outside where he continued yelping and running. It was awful. Somewhere inside or outside he ripped one of his toenails in half. I was finally able to wrangle him into my car and head to the vet. He jumped 2 rows of seats and right on top of me while I was driving. He was completely out of control. Once we got to the vet he still wouldnt calm down and again nipped at the vet. He has never ever nipped at anyone. Vet gave him valium to calm him down. The event went on for 40 minutes and only stopped with valium or my poor boy would have just kept going. My vet said she couldnt care for him properly so I had to transport him to a 24 hour clinic 45 minutes away. The vets told me it was a seizure that could be caused by numerous things (liver kidney shutdown, brain tumour etc). Looking back he has been out of sorts for a couple weeks (pooping on floor, jumping on couches). We thought he was just being defiant or upset because weve had guys drywalling basement and he hasnt been allowed down there.


So we are awaiting test results.... what happened didnt seem like your average seizure to me. I didnt see a seizure event just the aftermath that was so agonizingly long... has anyone had a similar situation post seizure? I am so worried for him but also so worried if this happens again that he could hurt my 4 or 2 year old.

Jeremy

 

[packblt]

Our boy Tyson had behavioral seizures (bizarre behavioral events where the dog is definitely acting out of character and is not aware of what is happening) intermittently for 2 years before we actually saw the classical seizures occur while he was sleeping. We had an mri and somograms and multiple thyrpid panels and it was decided that it could be from him being hypothyroid. He also had other symptoms of being hypothyroid and we decided to try medicating him with Soloxine and that helped him tremendously. His symptoms improved in days and he did not have any seizures during the remaining warm months when he would have had many.

I have also read that some dogs can feel the seizures coming on and they have a period of strange behavior before or after the classical seizure actually happens.

I would suggest that you have a full thyroid panel run and google "subclinical hypothyroidism in dogs with behavior problems" and you should be able to find articles that relate to this. It is very important to have the thyroid results caarefully reviewed because the average thyroid panel may say that the results are normal when in fact they maybe too low for your dog. Many boxer owners have had this happen.

Good luck and keep us posted on how Loki is doing.