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Hello,
it’s been a long year for Michaleto, my 11 yr old male cat.
Last April, out of the blue, I came home one day to find him jump out of his cat tower , run around in circles chasing his tail, stop, let out a howl, then take a few steps and fall over to his size and have what we assumed was a seizure.
took him to ER vet and they discovered a heart murmur and high blood pressure.
Followed up w our regular vet and they confirmed murmur and high BP. Said the seizure was likely from high BP but he needed to follow up with a cardiologist. Cardiologist confirmed murmur, high BP and HCM (heart disease). All vets concluded that seizure was most likely due to that.
He had another small seizure 3 weeks later and since has had nothing.
This past Wednesday, he started being silly and playing, then went to his cat door, howled, and his back legs buckled. I shut his cat door and he jumped onto the couch and had a long seizure. Howling constantly, drooling, nose running, lost his bowels. When seizure lasted over 2 min I took him to vet. By the time we got there his respiration was very high, his mouth open, tongue out.
vet got him on oxygen and checked BP assuming it would be high and it was fine. By the time they went to give him recovery meds he came out of it.
vet now says that seizure is not due to high BP and HCM but I must assume I have an epileptic cat (at 11 yrs old which is not typical). She said she didn’t think it was a brain tumor because of thr slow progression of seizure/symptoms.
Started him on Phenobarbital 2x day for 3 days then down to once a day continued.
he seems very groggy and I know that can happen with pheno.
I’m a ball of nerves now, terrified he’ll have another big seizure, scared of what could have caused it, and how to deal with it and live a normal life and be away from home when needed. Help, my anxiety is just crushing me with worry over him.
Also, I don’t accept epilepsy at 11yr old and still think it could be from his heart disease.
anyone deal with anything even remotely similar, and does anyone have advice, soothing words, etc
Thank y oh!!!!!
it’s been a long year for Michaleto, my 11 yr old male cat.
Last April, out of the blue, I came home one day to find him jump out of his cat tower , run around in circles chasing his tail, stop, let out a howl, then take a few steps and fall over to his size and have what we assumed was a seizure.
took him to ER vet and they discovered a heart murmur and high blood pressure.
Followed up w our regular vet and they confirmed murmur and high BP. Said the seizure was likely from high BP but he needed to follow up with a cardiologist. Cardiologist confirmed murmur, high BP and HCM (heart disease). All vets concluded that seizure was most likely due to that.
He had another small seizure 3 weeks later and since has had nothing.
This past Wednesday, he started being silly and playing, then went to his cat door, howled, and his back legs buckled. I shut his cat door and he jumped onto the couch and had a long seizure. Howling constantly, drooling, nose running, lost his bowels. When seizure lasted over 2 min I took him to vet. By the time we got there his respiration was very high, his mouth open, tongue out.
vet got him on oxygen and checked BP assuming it would be high and it was fine. By the time they went to give him recovery meds he came out of it.
vet now says that seizure is not due to high BP and HCM but I must assume I have an epileptic cat (at 11 yrs old which is not typical). She said she didn’t think it was a brain tumor because of thr slow progression of seizure/symptoms.
Started him on Phenobarbital 2x day for 3 days then down to once a day continued.
he seems very groggy and I know that can happen with pheno.
I’m a ball of nerves now, terrified he’ll have another big seizure, scared of what could have caused it, and how to deal with it and live a normal life and be away from home when needed. Help, my anxiety is just crushing me with worry over him.
Also, I don’t accept epilepsy at 11yr old and still think it could be from his heart disease.
anyone deal with anything even remotely similar, and does anyone have advice, soothing words, etc
Thank y oh!!!!!
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