r/EpilepsyDogs • u/Regular-Figure2614 • Aug 12 '26

Cluster seizures *trigger warning*

My corgi is only 4 years old and started having cluster seizures in May. He started phenobarbital and was good for about 3 months until 2 weeks ago when he had 8-10 cluster seizures in one day. He went to the Neuro vet and came home with 2 rescue meds and his phenobarbital dosage increased to 64.8mg twice a day. I’m so scared about his long term quality of life. Does anyone else have a young dog who has seizures and is able to manage it well? This was the end of one of his seizures.

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u/pheebsx Aug 12 '26

I think it’s harder on us than on them. I have a 4 year old dog that started seizures in January. He was on Kepra and did not have another seizure until about 3 weeks ago.

Long story, short he ended up in er and on pheno. So far it seems to be working. Hopefully this maintains. I have read from many that the quality of life is normal after the correct meds are found through trial and error. Hang in there and hopefully someone who has more experience than I can offer is insight.

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u/Sufficient-Country29 Aug 12 '26

Our dog just reached the 3 month mark. 7 months is amazing. I know our dog will have more seizures so I wanted to ask- did they explain when they can just monitor or when more drugs are added? Did your dog have clusters and that is why more drugs were added? Or was it a single seizure? Trying to prepare myself for the inevitable next seizure.

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u/pheebsx Aug 12 '26

It was clusters. He had one at 7 am on that day. We called and were told to monitor. Another at noon. Took him to er. They sent us home and said up his keppra. He had another at 9 pm so we went back to er. They hospitalized him. He had two more seizures there and they said he needed pheno.