11/06/2023
I'm so proud of Humphrey.
Unfortunately at the age of just 4 months old, he had his 1st seizure. He went on to have another 17 while under investigations. He was finally admitted to the emergency vets in the early hours also suffering with pneumonia. So much for such a tiny puppy to endure. He was diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy. Physical issues were ruled out.
He has been on medication 5 times a day, with regular blood tests. And despite not wanting to go in the vets office, he was always good to have his blood taken.
At 18 months old the vet suggested that we could consider reducing his medication as he hasn't had any further seizures and he could have grown out of them. There were risks of the seizures getting worse with the reduction so not an easy decision to make.
I decided I owed it to Humphrey to try so over the last 6 months I've been reducing his medication by 1/10th, which was slower than the vet suggested but I didn't want our failure to be caused by reducing them to quickly.
I am unbelievably happy to report that Humphrey had his last medication 10 days ago and so far so good. His tail seems to wag even more than ever now.
I don't think I will ever stop watching him for signs and there will always be a bottle of rescue meds in the fridge but we are enjoying the freedom of not watching the clock for the next dose.I'm so proud of Humphrey.
Unfortunately at the age of just 4 months old, he had his 1st seizure. He went on to have another 17 while under investigations. He was finally admitted to the emergency vets in the early hours also suffering with pneumonia. So much for such a tiny puppy to endure. He was diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy. Physical issues were ruled out.
He has been on medication 5 times a day, with regular blood tests. And despite not wanting to go in the vets office, he was always good to have his blood taken.
At 18 months old the vet suggested that we could consider reducing his medication as he hasn't had any further seizures and he could have grown out of them. There were risks of the seizures getting worse with the reduction so not an easy decision to make.
I decided I owed it to Humphrey to try so over the last 6 months I've been reducing his medication by 1/10th, which was slower than the vet suggested but I didn't want our failure to be caused by reducing them to quickly.
I am unbelievably happy to report that Humphrey had his last medication 10 days ago and so far so good. His tail seems to wag even more than ever now.
I don't think I will ever stop watching him for signs and there will always be a bottle of rescue meds in the fridge but we are enjoying the freedom of not watching the clock for the next dose.
