Originally Posted by
circuitmonkey
Sorry to hear about Max, he is a beautiful dog and I hope my experience with an epileptic black lab might be of some help.
Her name was Diefa and lived to a ripe old age, but her fits started when she was very young.
It was very scary to watch at first and not know what was going on, but we too had a very good vet who diagnosed her and got her on medication (I'm afraid I don't recall which it was), this didn't stop the fits but did bring down the frequency of what where called grand-mal fits.
A couple things that we noticed and where advised by our vet to look out for:
She use to get extreeeeemely clingy just before the fits and at this time we would switch off any appliance making noise, reduce the amount of light in the room and get my younger sisters away (always upset them). We did this because we where advised that the fits where like the wiring in her brain getting mixed up and sensory overload whilst she was fitting typically resulted in more sever fits. for the same reason if she was standing when she started to fit (she would normally lean up against either myself or my mother) we'd lay her in the middle of the room and leave her to it, we'd only pin her down if she where likely to knock into something.
Like previously mentioned (sorry to lazy to quote the original poster) flickering lights where normally the trigger for the fits, in our case it was the fish tank.
Hopefully you'll learn to live with it and both you and your dog will be very happy, it got to be none issue for our family, use to freak the hell out of any visitors though!
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Max gets very clingy after a fit..... he's not been too bad over the weekend, and leaving him to go to work today wasn't as painful as I thought. He's been whining a lot, we try not to make too much of a fuss of him because I don't want the whining turning into a habit, something he gets rewarded for, so it's pretty much back to normal
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