My dog started having seizures just before he hit 7 years. He has always been in puppy stage and he still is. First two seizures were 6 months ago within 24 hours. Then he had two more over the six month course. I understand he is in the gray zone by the age, epilepsy vs tumor. I’m trying to schedule an MRI for him as not knowing is killing me. Could dogs be just normal for 6-7 months between seizures if it’s brain tumor? His last doctor visit last week was all normal except for two seizures in a week. Thank you!!!

Emma presented with allergies and red itchy eyes at first. So we have her APOQUEL. Then her right eye started to bulge and left eye appeared to have anterior uveitis. Then the vet said she had something systemic. After running all of the blood work, tick test, chest x-ray, and ultrasound, everything came back normal. Now they suspect she has a tumor somewhere in her brain or behind her right eye cause it to bulge, which also explains why the left eye is so inflamed. She isn’t responding to presnisone or doxycycline. Lethargic, panting, uncomfortable, all signs of pain. I can’t get in to see an internist for another week and I keep going to the ER and they keep sending me home. 1) Is she going to before I can get to see the internist?! 2) did the Apoquel do this to her?

Hello, my golden retriever, Chase (11 y/o), had 3 grand mal seizures over a period of 7 hours. We rushed him to the emergency clinic where he was administered phenobarbital. Before his seizures happened, he had a clean bill of health, aside from being treated for hypothyroidism. His CBC blood work at the vets on the night he seized came back perfect and did bro have any concerns on his chest X-ray aside from arthritis. He has not had a seizure since being put on a 2x/day dose of oral phenobarbital, and he is regaining coordination and regular behavior relatively quickly. We live in South Carolina and have many toads that come on to our property, as we live off of a river/swamplands, and have read that some species secrete neurotoxins, but would value input regarding possibility of this being caused by a brain tumor. He has an MRI scheduled.

We lost our deaf, white boxer, Clara, on 12/04/18 totally out of the blue! She woke us up being sick and her eyes were in the back of her head. She was very wobbly on her back legs and there was lots of bile, sick, some wee & poop everywhere. She struggled to walk out to the toilet and when she did she stood still facing one way. She toppled over and when we ran to pick her up she collapsed onto one side. A few hours later we were told by the vet the blood test had come back as pancreatitis and she was on a drip & pain relief. Three hours later she had deteriorated and within an hour she had crashed and was being kept alive by a machine (Leading up to this she seemed in perfect health albeit I had noticed she had been having trouble chewing hard chews for around 4 months and her teeth were in perfect condition as was her mouth). She had also had head tremors in the past but not in our company for over 18 months. Her nose was wet and cold throughout all of the time she was sick. She had always been mean to other dogs since our other boxer was attacked. We are confused as they had been running around on a long walk (she was always walked at least 1.5 hour walks a day). Do you think we should of done more for her, we are confused and utterly devastated as is her brother.

My 13yr old German Shepard has had 2 seizures within about 2 months of each other. After the first seizure, I was told it could be a brain tumor because he seems to have some nerve issues in the back leg. It took him longer to flip his paw back over and notice she was pinching it. The blood work was fine and they basically said wait and see. After the second seizure, this Dr. did blood work - which was fine and started him on phenobarbital. She didn’t mention anything of a brain tumor. He’s an anxious dog to begin with, but these meds seem to make him extremely restless. If this is a brain tumor, is the phenobarbital a necessary medication? And to get an MRI is an hour away. He’s terrible in the car and I’m debating if it’s worth putting him through that, as if it is a tumor - I don’t think brain surgery would be doable at his age. Can he just be treated as if he had a tumor?