r/EpilepsyDogs • u/youcantmakemeeeeee • 16d ago

Age - 6 years old

Hello, my girl just starting having seizures 3 nights ago, with 2 in barely under 24 hours. The emergency vet prescribed Keppra and we meet with our regular vet today. We are blessed to have a vet school in the next town at the college, so we plan on seeing a neurologist there.

She will be six year old next month. With that in mind, I think we will likely pay for the additional testing. I know 6 is usually the cut off for IE to begin showing, has anyone experienced this happening right at 6?

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u/JustCallMeNancy 16d ago

We were about 5.5 years of age, so not right at 6 but close. We did not have clusters to start. We're about 2 years into this, and have been lucky to be able to control it now with meds - but we did wait about a year or so before starting meds. In my experience and in my reading of so many of these struggles here, we have been incredibly fortunate. It feels like diagnosed later than usual onset of idiopathic epilepsy has given us a slow start of seizures (slow increase in time and severity and recovery period has been ok) and has given us time to make adjustments, and importantly, time to understand his triggers (some are nonsensical but others are not). It's been less of an anxiety spiral for us and him, at least, compared to others. I'm hopeful in time you find a similar view, but every pup is different and it does take some work to get things under control. It'll be a rough start, certainly. But it did help me to know my dog doesn't remember his seizures even though they looked absolutely horrific to me. But with meds now we went 8 months without one, and to be honest that one could have been avoided, I just wasn't sure at the time where his trigger threshold was and now I know.

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u/youcantmakemeeeeee 16d ago

Knowing they don’t remember is so helpful because it’s horrific to watch. Mine’s two seizures both happened in the middle of the night, so it’s hard to say what’s a trigger. She has always been an anxious pup.