Randomness of Christi : » Cat Seizures

Comment by Meggon

September 28, 2007 @ 9:15 am

Hey Christi…

I’ve never had a cat with epilepsy, but Shannon’s dog Lady has it. When I was living with them in college is when it started, so I got to experience a lot of them, and it’s really scary!!

Lady has now been dealing with it for about 5 years now (is that how long we’ve been out of college?!?) They changed her diet (no more people food!) and were careful with other things. They found that she would have a seizure if she were in close contact with wool for a long time. So one thing you may want to do is watch what happens prior to a seizure (hopefully it’ll be a long time before another one!) and see what your kitty is around or has eaten.

Shannon and John decided not to medicate Lady. They figured if it was bad enough for medication that she would be suffering enough and they should put her down. She sometimes has long stretches in between seizures, and sometimes short. All you can do really is wait and see what happens. Hope that helps a bit!

Comment by Colleen

December 28, 2007 @ 10:02 am

Hi Christi, my 7 yr old cat had a siezure at 4 am this morning. This is only the second one she has had. I would hold off on medicating until you see the frequency of the attacks. The last one my cat had was 5 yrs ago. I hope this will be the last. Good luck.

Comment by Christi

December 28, 2007 @ 4:19 pm

Colleen~

After I posted this post our cat had another Grand Mal seizure and we ended up having to put him on medication. Basically they told us if he had more then one Grand Mal seizure in a week they highly recommend the medication. We did find out though after a year he will probably be able to be weaned off the meds. Here’s Hoping!!
Christi

Comment by Debra

March 10, 2008 @ 4:48 pm

Last Thursday my youngest cat 9 months of age started
having small seizures. He had over 17 that day, the
next day he vomited all day. I took him to the vet
twice Thursday and Friday. He refused to draw blood
to see what the matter was. He did give him meds for
the vomiting to heal the stomach the second visit.
I used a dropper and fed him back to where I thought all was well, this Monday morning I saw where he had
had an accident on my sofa again. Soon after he had
a grand mal seizure that lasted for several minutes.
We made the decision to end his suffering, I have cryed all day missing him. He was such a lovable kitty. He would always jump up when I was eating to
take the spoon out of my mouth and when he jumped up
on my lap it was always with force using both front
feet at the same time. I hope I made the right decision as he seemed to be suffering terrible thru
the seizures.

Comment by Christine

April 6, 2008 @ 12:28 am

My 2 year old kitty is also having seizures. She has had 4 since December 2007, all of them have been early in the morning 4-5am ish until tonight. It is scary watching your beloved friend, and be unable to help them. My vet said it was up to me if I wanted to pursue medication but that with such a young cat it could eventually be very hard on her body. I am contemplating alternative therapy as the regular vet doesn’t seem to be much help.

Comment by Christi

April 6, 2008 @ 7:32 pm

We have had our cat on medication for 6 months now. Our vet said that after about a year that we would probably be able to wean him off the pills as then he will have the medication built up in his system. Since we have put him on the medication he hasn’t had any seizures. I can’t advise you one way or another but our cat is almost 2 now and the vet also gave us the option whether we wanted to put him on the meds or not. The vet did say that Chunk (our kitty) wouldn’t know one way or another when he was having a seizure. I don’t know if I necessarily believe that so we decided for him and us that we would put him on the medication. Hopefully that helps somewhat.