About Pörri

I talked with the neurologist yesterday and I asked her lot of questions about Pörri and the conditions she might have: epilepsy and vestibular syndrome.

Pörri has been ok, for the past week. It is very hard to give her the epilepsy medicine (phenobarbital) as she must take it twice a day. It is a tiny pill and it can be dissolved in water. We first gave it to her with the food, but after few times she did not want to eat the food with the medicine any more, so we had to spray it to her mouth. It went "fine" for a while, although she clawed us more or less everytime as Chris held her still. Today she knew that she was going to have the medicine and she totally paniced and clawed us both like never before. Luckily she was very hungry this morning and she ate the medicine with the food. I guess we have to vary the techiniques once and a while.
It is very important to give her the medicine every 12 hours, otherwise she might get a sirious seizure.

I asked the neurologist about a special diet too. She told me that ketogenic diet might help, as some results indicate so in the studys of human epilepsy.

If Pörri's seizures are caused by Vestibular syndrome (idiopathic vestibular syndrome), then there is nothing we can do about it. It's not fatal and it should go away by it self. So, if Pörri gets one of those seizures in the near future and it last a long time, it could be vestibular, as she should not have long lasting epileptic seisurez beeing on phenobarbital. (If that happens I think we still have to take her to vet, to make sure.)

In the many tests they did, they could not find any other cause for the seizures, than the idiopathic epilepsy or idiopathic vestibular syndrome. Idiopathic epilepsy is the term used for seizures that appear to have no other cause. Symptomatic epilepsy refers to seizures caused by an underlying condition.