On September 18th, one month from the last two seizures in August, the seizures returned with a vengeance. For the first time ever, Brady had a seizure that I did not witness somewhere between 10am and 11am, but all of the evidence was there.
He did well throughout the day and then another seizure occurred that afternoon at 5pm. He recovered as normal and did well again throughout the night. At 4:55am on the morning of September 19th, Brady endured a full-blown grand mal seizure. Once again he recovered quickly and seemed fine. Later between 7:00 and 7:25pm there was all the evidence that he had another seizure. This time he had a small abrasion above his left eye.
After this seizure, Brady just didn't seem to be himself and we decided that he should go to the VRCC (Veterinary Referral Critical Care). After all, this had never happened before, 4 seizures in 36 hours. They kept him to monitor him for 24 hours.
He did well while in the hospital and didn't have anymore seizures. I picked him up the night of September 20th.
Blood work revealed that the phenobarbital was on the high end of the therapeutic range, even so, the seizures are still occurring more often and are by no means under control whatsoever.
September 23rd Dr. Slayman decides to bring Potassium Bromide, another anti-convulsant drug, on board with the phenobarbital. The Potassium Bromide dose would be 450mg once per day.
Dear God please let this be what Brady needs to get the seizures under control!
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Did Brady have any stomach issues with KBR?
Thankfully, Brady doesn't have any stomach issues with being on KBR.
Although when he was taking it all in a single dose, he did have pretty severe ataxia = uncoordination. Fortunately, dividing his daily dose into 3 separate doses per day helped tremendously.
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