Another trip to the Emergency Vet
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Another trip to the Emergency Vet
This time, it was for Irish, the 14-year-old whippet.
Five minutes after the regular vet clinic closed, she suddenly got wobbly on her feet, started going in circles, began panting, etc. I was afraid she was having a heart attack. The emergency vet doesn't think so. Some tests are under way to make sure she hasn't ingested poison or had some kind of sudden organ failure, but the vet doesn't expect those problems either. She thinks it might be "old dog vestibular syndrome" (or something like that,) which makes the animal feel seasick -- queasy and unbalanced. If that's what it is, the whippet should be fine in a few days, after which it may recur someday, but probably not soon, and perhaps never again.
Irish will spend the night at the high-dollar place. She'll go to the regular vet tomorrow and probably stay there for a day or two.
Rusty gets no blame this time.
Five minutes after the regular vet clinic closed, she suddenly got wobbly on her feet, started going in circles, began panting, etc. I was afraid she was having a heart attack. The emergency vet doesn't think so. Some tests are under way to make sure she hasn't ingested poison or had some kind of sudden organ failure, but the vet doesn't expect those problems either. She thinks it might be "old dog vestibular syndrome" (or something like that,) which makes the animal feel seasick -- queasy and unbalanced. If that's what it is, the whippet should be fine in a few days, after which it may recur someday, but probably not soon, and perhaps never again.
Irish will spend the night at the high-dollar place. She'll go to the regular vet tomorrow and probably stay there for a day or two.
Rusty gets no blame this time.
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Roomie got a thing a few years ago called Benign Positional Vertigo, which I think we have discussed on the bored. The inner ear hairs get calcified, and your balance and dizziness thingies get all messed up. I wonder if this happens in animals also. The exercises people do to get rid of it would be confusing for dogs and cats, I think.
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The effects would be similar, even if the cause is a little bit different, because both involve the inner ear. As I understand it, vestibular syndrome describes some malfunction of the vestibular nerve between the inner ear and the brain. The malfunction can be caused by some rather dire things, including tumors, so those have to be ruled out. Usually no cause is found, though, so that's when it gets the "old dog" label.Ritterskoop wrote:Roomie got a thing a few years ago called Benign Positional Vertigo, which I think we have discussed on the bored. The inner ear hairs get calcified, and your balance and dizziness thingies get all messed up. I wonder if this happens in animals also. The exercises people do to get rid of it would be confusing for dogs and cats, I think.
I have sympathy for your Roomie and Irish, because I used to get horrible attacks of vertigo when I was in my 20s. I was afraid to move, and if I had to, I crawled on the floor. Then, one day I realized that I hadn't been zapped by an attack for over a year -- and I haven't had one since. I never knew what caused it, and I don't know why it went away. I'm just glad it did.
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Get well wishes to Irish. I've met her and she is a sweetie.
My oldest sister has had inner ear problems for 40 years. I'm sure she wishes hers would go away like yours did. I'm glad you no longer have it.
She can't even sit on a swivel type bar stool without getting deathly ill.
My oldest sister has had inner ear problems for 40 years. I'm sure she wishes hers would go away like yours did. I'm glad you no longer have it.
She can't even sit on a swivel type bar stool without getting deathly ill.
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Get well, Irish!
Yes, that's one of the problems MarleysMom has. A minor problem, compared to the others, but it compounded the trouble when she was in the hospital a year and a half ago.Ritterskoop wrote:Roomie got a thing a few years ago called Benign Positional Vertigo, which I think we have discussed on the bored.
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