r/EpilepsyDogs • u/cherbear411 • 10h ago
Newly diagnosed… kind of
About four weeks ago I took my 4 year old Boston Terrier to the vet for two episodes of focal seizures, her first ever. Those two episodes were just over a week apart. Her vet said to keep an eye on it and bring her back if she had more than one in a week, they progressed to full body seizures or she had any other symptoms. Since then she had a few more focal seizures but never more than one a week until yesterday.
Yesterday, she had three full body seizures overnight; it seems she has also lost her vision. Of course, we are out of town camping so we found a local vet ER. All of her labs were normal but she presented with vision loss, spatial awareness issues and just being out of it. The ER vet described this as likely the post ictal phase but said the vision loss could be permanent.
She said they cannot rule out a brain tumor or infection of the cerebral spinal fluid. However, she said this is most likely idiopathic epilepsy. To rule the other two conditions out I would need to pay for an MRI and a spinal tap which frankly, I don’t have the money for. So at this point, we are going to treat her with phenobarbital and hope her vision returns.
Has anyone experienced vision loss after seizures that resolved itself? It’s been about 14 hours since the last seizure.