| Comment | Hey—I’m sorry you’re going through this. I’ve been where you are and it’s hard and expensive.
The University of Glasgow has a seizure clinic-if your cat hasn’t responded to medications like Keppra or phenobarbital, you definitely want to enlist the help of a board certified veterinary neurologist and get your cat an MRI, in order to rule out tumours and such as the cause of your cat’s seizures.
If you don’t have pet health insurance, I highly highly recommend getting some (in the US, FIGO was brilliant-here, I think Pet Plan seems a solid choice). Wait the 14 days, if you can (unless your pet is having cluster seizures/multiple seizures in one day), and then take your cat to the seizure clinic if another reputable specialty referral practice to see a neurologist. You need comprehensive diagnostics before starting a medication protocol because cats, like people, will often need to be on anti-spasmodics for life. Stopping and starting a medication can cause seizures in and of itself.
Wishing you so much luck-I’ve had three pets with seizure disorders (one cat, two dogs), and trialled every drug under the sun, including compounded potassium bromide for my treatment resistant pup who had seizures due to brain damage. Nothing else worked for her, but that old drug did. It’s as much of an art as it is a science. |
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