cat seizurs?

[Risami]

hoping somebody is awake about 1 hr and 1/2 ago my cat experience a seizure at least i think it is one. she is bearly 5 years old i can't loose this cat she is to young. what causes seizures? will it happen again? how dangerous is it? I wonder if anybody experience this. she is calm and sleeping right now.

i don't know what happen she was twitching around and had lots of drool coming out and when she calm down she was in a blank stare for about 1 minute and she started to pace around like she is lost then when she was calm i petted her and she started to pur. 20 minutes ago she went to keading like she always does. I'm hoping the vet is open as i don't drive yet and don't know anybody who could take me to emergancy vet so i'm praying one will be open.

I wanna know about this seizure what caues it? could a nightmare cause it? could hairball cause it i'm sure she has hairballs i do groom her and give her hairball remendy treats. I'm so worried and paranoid

[laurief]

I'm afraid that only a vet can answer your questions about the cause of your cat's seizure and the likelihood that it will happen again. I have never heard of either a nightmare or a hairball causing a seizure, and I doubt if either one could.

It would be a very good idea to get your cat to a vet as soon as possible.

Laurie

[Risami]

i called the vet this morning i didnt' had 30 bucks i need 30 bucks more for a blood work i will be able to get that done on tuesday as i will have it by then but right now my cat seems fine like she never had it. if something is wrong with her after these test how do i aford the vet most vet here require payment i'd get pet insurance but they reimbours you and vet still needs money up front. i heard of care credit is it possible to get that at the vet they carry it

[Risami]

ok she got blood work today i haven't seen another seizure episode either cept for friday. sometimes i can't tell the difference between a seizure and a stroke. have anybody experience a cat that had a seizure once or twice in there life time? for my cat this is once she is in perfect physical health as the vet said but i told him i want a blood test when he sait it may not be needed.

[catloverami]

The first thing that came to my mind was that maybe your cat had an epiliptic seizure. I had a cat once, that used to have them maybe twice a year. This was a long time ago now, and then the vet said nothing could be done. The seizure was the same as to how you describe what your cat went thro, and after a few minutes my cat was fine. He lived to be 17-1/2 yrs. old, and the seizures didn't seem to affect him in any other way. But you should talk to your vet and ask about the possibility of cat having an epileptic seizure.

[Risami]

epileptic seizure i like to ask what is that? i did ask my vet about it but i still don't understand. i know there are different types of seizures. i don't know how often my cat will have it since she experience once but i hate seeing that..it litterly look like that cat was dying i did panic since it was my first time seeing one happen also.

[asrowley]

Okay an epileptic seizure is one caused by your mind firing signals at an alarming rate causing your body to convulse and you to lose control. Same thing happens in cats. Usually cats can live a long and healthy life with them.

I know about seizures in humans more, but they effect cats the same way. I'm a long time sufferer with Pseudo-seizures (when your body convulses, but no signals are fired in your brain, your body just kind of loses it) and I have drop seizures (A type of epileptic seizure where your head drops down and you don't realize you are doing it and your mind goes blank) Cats can also get these as well as the two other most common ones under epilepsy: Grand Maul: Total loss of control of the body, shaking, "flopping like a fish," Drooling. foaming at the mouth, urinating ones self, and also soiling ones self (For cats it's a little different, it appears your cat had a grand) or a Petite Maul: Shaking of limbs, slurred speech, drooling and possible loss of bladder control.

Wait for the blood work to come back. I hope your kitten starts to feel better soon.

[October]

I'm sorry to hear about the seizures. Our first cat, Rookie, started having seizures when she was only 3 and was diagnosed with what they call "primary epilepsy," meaning that it was just seizures and nothing else systemic that was causing them. I know how scary it is to watch it happening.

One tip for you. When Rookie had her third seizure on a Saturday, the seizure ended and she took a leap at me and hung off my wrist by her teeth. I learned that it's not uncommon for cats to attack either a person or another animal after having a seizure, just because they're so disoriented and fearful when they come out of it. It's probably a good idea for you to be there while she's having a seizure, but I wouldn't try to handle her at that point.

Also, an interesting thing I learned was that the seizure itself doesn't harm them. It's only if something happens during the seizure that would otherwise hurt them, like hitting something sharp or falling down the stairs, where any harm would come.

Our story had a very sad ending. We found that Rookie's seizures couldn't be controlled, she was obviously miserable and covered in her own pee all the time, and we ultimately made the gut-wrenching decision to have her euthanized. I certainly hope that's not your case, but I do want to say that I sympathize for how hard it is.

[MowMow]

Our Alaskan Malamute was epileptic. With proper medication she went from having them a few times a week to about once a month. The meds made her a bit...dim... but she lived a healthy and happy if all to short life (not due to the epilepsy).

[Risami]

when my cat had this seizure she didn't really urinate all did was had saliva foaming out lasted about 1 minute then after she recovered i was relieaved but she was still out of it for another minute then she started to get comfortable and layed down at pured and started walking back and forth to her foodbowel.