Comments on: Help! My Dog’s Head Is Tilted To One Side

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 05:53:07 +0000

In reply to Cathy J Brock. Hi Cathy. Regarding Valerie‘s follow-up question, these dogs can’t generally be fixed by antibiotics alone, no matter how long the course is, although they are often very palliative.

By: Cathy J Brock

Cathy J Brock — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:01:41 +0000

In reply to Valerie. I was hoping you had a reply on this. The same thing is going on with my 14 year old Boston.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 05:14:20 +0000

In reply to Andrew. Thank you. I will look around for CT availability. It seems like he is more dizzy and less eager to walk around these last couple days. It has just been a little over 24 hours since the second round of antibiotics were started. The increased dizziness is concerning to me, as well as scary and sad to watch. I feel like I am making him suffer, although he gobbled down the boiled chicken and scrambled egg with peas & carrots. No seizure in 24 hours now. Other than a brain tumor, a bad infection can cause this for sure? Maybe he wasn’t on antibiotics long enough the first time &’the infection got worse

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 01:35:15 +0000

In reply to Valerie. Hi Valerie. I have several comments. Firstly, I can’t speak to your area, but we can get a CT on an animal done here for $1000 so I would look more widely at other facilities even if you have to travel. It is definitely the best test. If you can’t do this, it is sometimes possible to resolve inner ear infections with long-term antibiotics, plus ear flushes and local treatments combined. Others will require TECA surgery. It will involve much follow-up and eventually cost more than a CT, but won’t be a big lump sum. Bear in mind, though that although the diagnosis is likely, it is not confirmed.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 22:50:27 +0000

Hi, I have a 10yo chihuahua/daschund. He displayed symptoms of a right ear infection one day and a head tilt later that day. The vet prescribed a 5 day abx and 10 day steroid w taper, and ointment to the affected ear. He seems to get better, was eating , drinking & wanting to play fetch. 2 nights ago, he got confused asking to come up to my bed-he was by the wall, thinking it was the bed ( my room is pitch black though). Neither of us slept, unprepared to go to the vet Friday am when they opened. I ended up going to the pet ER at 4am because he yelped out what I thought was pain. The doc prescribed gabapentin and a 10 day course of amoxicillin/claviculonic acid. She thought he had pain & a lingering inner ear infection , poss ruptured membrane. Head tolt still there. Last night, we slept on the couch & he woke up yelping & scared & had a grand mal seizure. I was scared as well, I lightly held him for the 20-30 seconds. I raced back to the vet, anticipating I’d have to put him to sleep, but he had relaxed and could stand by the time we got to the ER. The vet rec a CT (I can’t afford! It’s 3k) but I wonder if long term antibiotics would work???? Do I ask my regular vet for more after this 10 day course is completed? What if he has another seizure? I’m so distraught. He is still eating & drinking water. I use a harness to help him maintain balance when we go potty

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 07:47:52 +0000

In reply to Brent. Hi Brent. Sorry, nothing simple comes to mind. If you were in South Australia, I would recommend a CT scan, but there may be other diseases in your local area to consider first. Good luck.

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:10:58 +0000

Hello,
My 10yr old lab hound mix has been experiencing symptoms of vestibular disease for about 2 weeks. It started with weakness in his back legs and vomiting. It progressed to a head tilt and vertigo about 10 days ago. He was prescribed a antibiotic and improved from Monday to Wednesday to where he was 90% normal. He regressed since Thursday to today (Wednesday following week). He has been unable to really stand without assistance. He was prescribed Prednisone and started that 3 days ago but hasn’t shown any sign of improvement. He also lost his bark, and what appears to be most of his hearing. He is eating and drinking. His thyroid levels are normal (w/ .5 mg 2x/day of thyroid medicine) and blood tests showed nothing remarkable. Any suggestions?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 21:55:37 +0000

In reply to sam trickett. Hi Sam. Vestibular signs can be caused by anything that damages that part of the brain, so in your poor doggy’s case, it was almost certainly something other than the common idiopathic vestibular syndrome.

By: sam trickett

sam trickett — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:51:56 +0000

My two year old was admitted to out If hour vets with suspected vestibular syndrome his eyes was flickering and he was going in circles
They put him on ivf but the canular come out so they suggested sedation the drug was met something
But he didn’t respond too well to that coughing up blood and struggling to breath , when this started to wear off he was rolling around quite a lot so it was then suggested to give him diazepam
They said he had responded well his eyes wasn’t flickering and he was more relaxed this was at 6pm at 9pm we was told his heart stopped and they didn’t hold much hope but we as keeping him alive , this is where I can’t get my head around , I read extensively about vestibular and although it wasn’t pleasant for the dog they rarely died as a result of it . The vet said after telling us constantly that it was vestibular she then suspected a brain tumour this is why he passed ?? I feel it was more drug related than anything else as he would of needed a mri to say he had a brain tumour ?

I he was a strong otherwise healthy two year old boy until this happened

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:03:35 +0000

In reply to Mike. Hi Mike. That’s a terrible story, but don’t be too hard on your vets. I have never heard of such a thing happening and there’s no way it could’ve been predicted in advance. You did everything you could.