Bit of a long one ...

I recently posted about my 16 year old Cassie who I thought was losing her hearing. She'd been very twitchy and jumpy and wasn't appearing to hear me very well.

Anyway, 3 months ago she had her usual depo jab for an allergy, which works very well. But a few days later she suddenly had a seizure, but the vet said it wasn't connected to the depo injection but to keep my eye on her and if she had another fit to take note of time etc.

6 weeks ago she had another depo, and was fine. The last week she had another steroid jab (she has had them around 6-8 weekly for a couple of years now) and had been terribly twitchy since. Then at 3 this morning I woke up to her falling off the bed and having a seizure - she fell and got stuck between my bed and chest of drawers. So I just had to yank her out, she then ran off down 2 sets of stairs whilst convulsing and by the time I got downstairs she was ok again.

I've tried looking online to see if I could find anything about the steroid perhaps causing these seizures but haven't been able to yet. Could it be causing them? There's nothing I can do, as there isn't an alternative medication to stop her allergy. Also, I was wondering if her twitchiness was the lead up to the seizure this time? She certainly doesn't appear to be as bad with that today, and is more alert than she has been in the past week.

I guess time will tell, she is definitely showing her age now, but she's still quite nimble, and she's very sweet I don't want to panic, as she may be fine for another few months but it's obviously worrying, and I don't want her to be in pain or frightened, and the twitching and this morning's episode do seem to have scared her.

Any advice?

 

I know of people whose cats have this
http://www.lclarkecushingvmd.com/showpr ... &Private=0
it can be quite rough on them

 

I'm sorry your kitty is going through all of this. I really don't have any advice to give. I hope everything will be okay.

 

Poor Cassie Lets hope you figure out what is trigging the seizures.

Good link Mary :y_the_best:

 

Thankyou. I have looked at the link and part of it sounds like Cassie, but some of it doesn't. I'm very confused as to what to do, if anything at the moment. :roll:

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I'm sorry that Cassie is also having seizures. I can't find much info on line either. What did her vet say? If anything, sometimes steroids are prescribed for seizures.

http://www.sniksnak.com/cathealth/seizures.html

http://www.vetinfo4cats.com/cseizure.html#Seizures and phenobarbitol

This one talks a bit about cats too:

http://www.alternativepethealth.com/seizures.html

 

Hi,

Thanks for those links. I'm not sure what happens with Cassie, but she hasn't fallen on her side that I've seen. Leading up to the 'incident' she was very jumpy and nervous, but I thought that was her having problems with her hearing, which seems to be going. Since then she's not been so jumpy. I did notice her the other day in the garden though looking like she was trying to go to the toilet but couldn't, she then started dragging her bottom on the grass ... then went back to try and go to the loo again but then vomited quite a lot. She does vomit now and again, which is fine but it was just the way she was dragging her bum around the floor - I've seen her do that twice now outside.

Given her other episodes and now this, I've decided to take her to the vet on Wednesday and get some bloods. Can't think of what else to do. She is on steroid jabs about every 8 weeks (dex) for an allergy. At least with the bloods we can hopefully eliminate a few things.

Ginny

 

Good luck on the vet visit. Thinking of you and Cassie. *hugs*

 

Thankyou! Poor Cassie was very stressed on the journey there and back, but we had a lovely nurse to hold her and she talked to her and stroked her the whole time. She was either calm or just scared stiff because she didn't move whilst having the blood taken! Just got to wait for the results now. Hopefully all clear, then I'll just have to accept it's old age affecting her.

Thanks for your thoughts O

 

Hang in there!! Keep us posted on how Cassie is doing..... Your a good fur owner!!