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ICE PACK TO STOP SEIZURES
Andy and Sammy (epi Australian Shepherd) Sammy ended his 15-month streak on Christmas Eve. I credit the long streak to the Soloxine and the homecooking. Sammy has always clustered before. We used the ice pack method and he came out of it pretty quickly and he didnt bump into anything afterward (normally a lot of pacing and bumping). The best part was that he didn't cluster, and I didn't use the valium, I just upped the pheno.... Marian and Tinker (epi Yorkie mix) Well, Tinker broke her seizure-free streak, after 79 days, and I got two chances to try the ice pack remedy. We just got back from vacation Friday night, so I was not prepared with a bag of ice for a seizure (after 79 days, I was getting cocky). At 9:45 this a.m. she had a grand mal, and I ran to the kitchen and pulled out a commercial ice pack and held it on her back. It was frozen into a weird shape, and did not conform to her back very well, and did not seem to help at all. BUT, after taking 5 mg of valium every two hours all day, she had another seizure at 8:30 p.m. (I was STILL not prepared -- I think this is called denial) and I pulled out the soft ice pack that came with a casserole dish tote I have. It conformed to her back and really seemed to help. The seizure was much less severe, and her post-ictal was almost non-existant. It seemed to stop the seizure at least as quickly as rectal valium, and did not have the loopy side effects. I know we are still supposed to use the rectal protocol with clusters, but I didn't know that this would be a cluster until after the second one. I'm still in denial, and haven't yet fixed a bag of ice, and I'm also assuming I will actually get some sleep tonight.
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