03-11-2017, 11:23 AM
When Chance first had a seizure (Feb 26th) and we took him to the emergency vet, he was started on an anti convulsion medication because they were treating it as idiopathic epilepsy. They were a littles skeptic of him having epilepsy because he's 7, and normally dogs that develop epilepsy are 6 and younger. When he came home on Tuesday, he was still having occasional seizures, but they weren't lasting long enough for him to have to go back to the emergency vet (the vet had told us that as long as they didn't last more than 5 minutes, he wouldn't have to come back). When he had a prolonged seizure the following Sunday (March 5th), he was also showing symptoms that are seen in dogs with brain tumors (falling over, disorientation). This is when they started to think that he had a brain tumor. When he stayed at the emergency vet from March 5th to late night March 8th, the vets had him hooked up on an IV so he was getting the anti seizure medication consistently and when they tried to wean him off, he kept getting seizures. This is when they became pretty certain that he had an advanced brain tumor. They are now treating it as a brain tumor so he's on corticosteroids to help the swelling in his brain go down. Right now he is on 4 medications and hasn't had any seizures since he's been home. I wish that it was epilepsy and not a brain tumor, but from his symptoms and how he has reacted to the different medications, a brain tumor is a realistic and probably correct assumption unfortunately :'(
