Re: [PyrNet-L] Health: Care: Epilepsy

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Dan,
I can only give you my experience with my Golden that had epilepsy.  She 
developed it when she was 5yrs old, and we didn't put her on medicine for 
about a year, in which they began to get worse.  She was on Phenobarbital, 
five 30 mg tablets per day.  She weighed 70lbs.  She started out very low 
doses and we adjusted her dosage according her seizures.  I can remember only 
two times in her life that she went into static epilepticus and had to be 
rushed to MSU and put on IV's.  She lived to be 13yrs old.  The epilepsy 
isn't what got her, it was severe arthritis, and inability to walk, so we had 
to put her down.  She managed really well.  We found her "triggers" and 
stayed away from those stresses.  I don't know if this helps, but there's my 
experience!
Becky, Cooper and Zoe
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