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So punky has been having these neurological episode of lately. You can read below the time line of everything along with her symptoms. I did some research and thought maybe it was an ear infection or vestibular disease of the ear. I took punky to the vet today and the vet suspects toxoplasmosis or a seizure disorder. Punky was prescribed 4 weeks of antibiotics and a follow up appointment in 2 weeks. Vet said there's no way to have a sure diagnosis without a CT scan or mri (which i CANNOT afford at the moment). If antibiotics don't work vet reccomends possibly seizure medication and I'd imagine running some tests. Is there anybody here that has experienced anything similar or has any advice? My worst fear is that it may get worse over time. Punky is doing fine as of now and is her happy bubbly self. I guess I'll just have to be patient for now and see if the medicine takes care of it. But if another episode happens then we know there was no infection after all. Sigh. I'm stressed.
First time:
5/20:
The day before punky acted kinda weird doing mouth movement like chewing motion and wasn't as happy/bubbly as normal but she was fine otherwise so we just kinda let it go and then the next day is when everything happened.
5/21:
Loss of coordination, could walk but falling and stumbling
Eye moving back & fourth horizontally
Doing weird chewing movement w mouth
Vomiting
Slept and didn't eat for a day
Took about 4 days to get back to normal. After 7 completely recovered.
Totally normal afterwords but left w head tilt to her left
Second time:
7/2:
The day before, the mouth movements began again. Then for like 10 seconds she like involuntarily stiffened up almost like when you're cold and shivering, you dont see it on the outside but can feel it on the inside like the chills. idk how to describe it. Only lasted for a few seconds, 10 at the most. Then she went back to normal everything was fine. Kinda foreshadowed another episode happening again bc of all that.
7/3:
About 5 am
Loss of coordination again, could barely walk this time
Weird mouth movement again
Drooling this time
Vomiting this time but less than last time
Rapid breathing Went back to normal about 2 hours later
No Loss of appetite this time
No horizontal eye movement this time either
Still has head tilt
Fully recovered by noon (7 hours later), Been normal happy chirpy ever since
First time:
5/20:
The day before punky acted kinda weird doing mouth movement like chewing motion and wasn't as happy/bubbly as normal but she was fine otherwise so we just kinda let it go and then the next day is when everything happened.
5/21:
Loss of coordination, could walk but falling and stumbling
Eye moving back & fourth horizontally
Doing weird chewing movement w mouth
Vomiting
Slept and didn't eat for a day
Took about 4 days to get back to normal. After 7 completely recovered.
Totally normal afterwords but left w head tilt to her left
Second time:
7/2:
The day before, the mouth movements began again. Then for like 10 seconds she like involuntarily stiffened up almost like when you're cold and shivering, you dont see it on the outside but can feel it on the inside like the chills. idk how to describe it. Only lasted for a few seconds, 10 at the most. Then she went back to normal everything was fine. Kinda foreshadowed another episode happening again bc of all that.
7/3:
About 5 am
Loss of coordination again, could barely walk this time
Weird mouth movement again
Drooling this time
Vomiting this time but less than last time
Rapid breathing Went back to normal about 2 hours later
No Loss of appetite this time
No horizontal eye movement this time either
Still has head tilt
Fully recovered by noon (7 hours later), Been normal happy chirpy ever since