I have a pomeranian named ChuChu who is 10 years old. He weighs around 13~14lb and is an extremely active dog. He eats fine, barks a lot, and an extremely lovable dog. However, I witnessed him having a seizure, and it lasted around a minute and half. He started to panic and urinating and shaking his body uncontrollably. I saw that the seizure happens while hes sleeping or tries to fall asleep. I marked the days when he had on the calendar and found out that every 12 days interval, the seizure formed. When he got his first seizure, we took him to the vet and went through a blood test. The vet told us that every thing was fine and normal, besides his liver enzymes level. Three out of four liver enzymes tests were high so the Vet offered us to put him on a liver medication. Because once we start giving him the seizure med, Phenobarbital, ChuChu must take the medicine because once we start we can't stop giving him the medicine. Because it has the potential of exacerbating the seizure. So the Vet told us to just feed him the liver med. for a month or so and run through the blood test again. However, he started ha ving a seizure again... My question and worry is to whether I should give him the phenobarbital or wait a while to see if the liver medicine might cause the seizure to form less. Because seizure forms from liver failures/problems, so we assumed that that might be the cause of ChuChu's seizures. For anyone who experienced their dogs from seizures, can someone please help me out?? What should I do? Thank you so much for reading this. God Bless.
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Find out if there is a reason for the seizure. My dog will seize on stress, particularly entering a vets office. Kinda convenient but not. You get great service.
Look into Potassium Bromide as a substitute for phenobarbital to protect the liver. Pheno acts fast, but Potassium bromide once in the system should protect and not be as damaging.
I am not a Doctor, I love my pet and have researched this.
Maybe call another vet to get a second opinion.