The other day our cat, Chunk (2 years old), had a grand mal seizure.\u00a0 I woke up in the middle of the night to him darting off of our bed and when he got to the floor he collasped on his side and started seizing.\u00a0 He also started salivating profusely.\u00a0 All of this lasted for several minutes before the seizing stopped.\u00a0 It took him a couple of minutes for him to become coherent again.<\/p>\n
The next day we called an made an appointment with the vet who did some blood work and offered to do a CAT scan.\u00a0 The blood work came back normal.\u00a0 She then told me that she highly didn’t recommend getting the CAT scan don, as she put it then you would know one way or another if he has brain tumors but what are you going to do with that knowledge?\u00a0 Good point.\u00a0 So right now we are assuming he has epilepsy as when the blood work is normal thats what they then assume.\u00a0 She told us that we could start medication right away, 2 times a day for the rest of his life, or we can monitor it for now.\u00a0 What they recommended is that if he has more then 1 major (grand mal) seizure in a month or 2-4 cluster seizures in several days that he should get put on medication.\u00a0 Since this medication is really hard on a cats body we are monitoring him for the time being.<\/p>\n
Has anyone else had a cat who has epilepsy?\u00a0 Any advice you can give us?\u00a0 Did you put your cat on medication?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The other day our cat, Chunk (2 years old), had a grand mal seizure.\u00a0 I woke up in the middle of the night to him darting off of our bed and when he got to the floor he collasped on … Continue reading