bigtime prayers needed - seizuring harv
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Thanks everybody.
He made it through the night quite uneventfully. His seizures only have happened when he's sleeping, so I was scared going to bed. We were both exhausted and slept like rocks. I woke up around 3:30 and he hadn't moved at all, so I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep through any.
Yay for drugs!
He still has his iv catheter in, and I'll keep it in for a couple more days just in case. Hopefully we won't need it anymore. He's sorta drunk from the phenobarbitol he's now on, and he's drinking and peeing like a mad man (that's an awesome side effect in a dog that's already having drinking/peeing issues!!) but I'll take that over seizures any day, yanno?
Bloodwork has all been normal. CBC, chemistry, ACTH stim (to rule out Cushing's disease), urine protein:creatinine ratio (looking for early kidney failure re: the dilute urine he's been having). Normal, normal, and more normal. We still have a full thyroid panel pending that probably won't be back until next week.
Hopefully he'll hold steady with the phenobarb for awhile.
He made it through the night quite uneventfully. His seizures only have happened when he's sleeping, so I was scared going to bed. We were both exhausted and slept like rocks. I woke up around 3:30 and he hadn't moved at all, so I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep through any.
Yay for drugs!
He still has his iv catheter in, and I'll keep it in for a couple more days just in case. Hopefully we won't need it anymore. He's sorta drunk from the phenobarbitol he's now on, and he's drinking and peeing like a mad man (that's an awesome side effect in a dog that's already having drinking/peeing issues!!) but I'll take that over seizures any day, yanno?
Bloodwork has all been normal. CBC, chemistry, ACTH stim (to rule out Cushing's disease), urine protein:creatinine ratio (looking for early kidney failure re: the dilute urine he's been having). Normal, normal, and more normal. We still have a full thyroid panel pending that probably won't be back until next week.
Hopefully he'll hold steady with the phenobarb for awhile.
we'll monitor liver values regularly, so if there are liver issues resulting from the drugs, we'll know pretty quick and they should be reversible. but yeah. at this point, stopping the seizures was priority number one. period. everything else, well, that's cake. without stopping the seizures, he'd be three feet in the grave. this way, he'll have some more time left.
harv started having more seizures tonight. he had three "chewing gum" seizures, seizures that just knocked him down and made him chew chew chew but didn't make him unconscious, in 45 minutes. he got more valium and i called my bosses in tears and they told me to give him an extra dose of phenobarb tonight and to up his dose to 1.5 grains over the weekend. i hope and pray that this will control them. chewing gum is much better than full blown seizures, but that many, close together, is bad.
i love my harvey so much.
i love my harvey so much.
