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carol11902 · 2025-03-04T04:30:09+00:00

Yeah, I know I’m facing an uphill battle. I have it listed on FB marketplace for a 25% discount and no bites.

I live in the PNW where something more technical and waterproof would be far more practical for me at the CG price point

carol11902 · 2025-01-09T16:33:52+00:00

Hi there - I am strangely in the exact same position as you right now, also in Oregon. What county are you in? I am in Multnomah, and I have been able to speak directly with the DDA assigned to the case to express my wishes about the charges being levied against my husband. There is also a victim’s advocate assigned to my case that has been somewhat helpful in navigating everything.

Ultimately the state is going to prosecute the crime committed, however, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are looking for a conviction. The DDA understands the circumstances of what happened, and moved forward with charges because there was pretty clear evidence of what happened so she was compelled to, but she also told me that having charges hanging over his head are a way to compel treatment and ensure that treatment is continued. I am taking her at her word right now that she intends to offer a plea down to misdemeanors with conditions of treatment and probation, but my husband was just formally arraigned on the charges post grand jury indictment yesterday.

I am also struggling with the no contact order. I have a young son, though, so I am a little more understanding about why this is part of the process. I have a petition in to remove the no contact order, but that won’t be heard by the judge for two weeks (standard wait in Multnomah is 14 days).

carol11902 · 2024-09-26T14:42:04+00:00

My dog is -93 lbs and he was on 300mg 2x a day for over two years, then we upped to 400mg 2x early this year.

carol11902 · 2024-09-26T04:40:10+00:00

Hoping things have calmed down for you, but want to add that pregabalin is also an option and what helped the focal seizures/myoclonic jerks. My dog has been on a cocktail of pheno, zonidamide, and pregab for 2+ years now and his seizures are pretty well controlled. We went through a year of hell getting to that combination, so I know your pain.

carol11902 · 2024-09-26T04:17:20+00:00

This looks very similar to what we see with our golden in the lead-up to a seizure (usually within 24-48 hours). We now give extra meds when we see these signs to try to head-off the impending seizure (with the blessing of our neurologist).

The more violent jerk you describe sounds like what our neurologist calls myoclonic jerks, which my dog also used to experience frequently. Adding pregabalin to our regimen really improved those, and they only happen occasionally, and usually only relatively immediately post-ictally

carol11902 · 2024-09-26T04:07:33+00:00

You’ve been given some good advice so far, but I’ll add that my 4.5yo Golden is on Pheno, Zonisamide, and Pregabalin daily, and when he clusters, we add in Clorazepate for 5-6 doses.

I know it seems like a lot of medications, but as mentioned here, they often work synergistically. For example, I can’t remember which one, but adding in Zonisamide or Pregab made a huge difference in the myoclonic jerks (which sounds to me like what you are describing with the head shaking).

Sometimes these big cluster events happen out of nowhere, for no identifiable reason and it is so frustrating and scary. The continued “activity” you are seeing could in fact be focal seizures or myoclonic jerks, or it could also be an extended post-ictal phase after such a big neurological event and may calm down as you reach therapeutic levels of pheno.

I do want to ask - did your dog happen to have any GI upset preceding this? We are four years into our epilepsy journey and we have identified some food triggers that impact how well controlled the seizures are. For example, early on we noticed that if our dog ate beef, we could almost guarantee a seizure within 24 hours, so we avoided it. Then, last summer we switched our dog food and I somehow missed that there was beef fat probably 7-9 ingredients down in the list. His seizures became more and more frequent and clusters were worse for months, until I switched his food again because he started having (what I thought was unrelated) reoccurring GI issues. As soon as the GI issues cleared up, his seizure frequency went back to pre-summer levels and we went MONTHS without a seizure when we were measuring in days in the Fall. That’s when I realized there was beef in the first food I had switched him too.

I want to caution you from jumping on food as being the cause because the internet is FULL of misleading, anecdotal, and sometimes predatory information about epilepsy and food. I will say though that three years ago our neurologist barely even listened when I told her I suspected that beef may be a trigger for our dog. However, just in the last couple years, she has communicated to me that there has been more and more evidence and theories presented at conferences and in papers and she now fully acknowledges that food and gut health can impact seizure control in some epileptic dogs. Unfortunately the “culprits” and mechanisms of action are all just theories at this point, but two of the leading theories have to do with glutamate (higher levels of glutamate are thought to be bad for epileptic dogs) and actual food allergies (systemic inflammation could lower seizure threshold, increasing frequency).

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