Momma2Bullies
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ADULT ONSET HYDROCEPHALUS
Hi everyone, I know I haven't posted in a while but I am turning to you for some help and advice. My Wilbur suddenly started having difficulty walking and wouldn't settle down, yelped in pain when I tried to move him (and he never cries - not even when he hurts his eyes with jagged nylabones (yes that has happened - long story) or when he blew his knee out...)
After a long couple of days and endless tests, a CT Scan/MRI and Spinal Tap, he has been diagnosed with Hydrocephalus. The good news is it is not lymphoma, it is not from a tick bite, and it is not from an infection causing inflammation. The difficulty is the cause is unknown (it isn't a physical blockage preventing the fluid from draining either)...and now we know why he started having seizures in 2015, this fluid has been building for a while.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Wilbur is 6 1/2 now. This is normally seen in puppies. He is on a ton of medications, prednisolone (which I have always tried to avoid), antibiotics, Prilosec and Phenobarbitol. He is very sedated and drugged up, I feel like he just isn't even here anymore. I don't know what to do, if this is something that he will live through or if he will always have to be this drugged. Am I allowing him to live a life of misery?
I know there are no answers and in a week I have another visit to the neurologist, but if anyone has any advice or knowledge it would be so appreciated.
xo
Hi everyone, I know I haven't posted in a while but I am turning to you for some help and advice. My Wilbur suddenly started having difficulty walking and wouldn't settle down, yelped in pain when I tried to move him (and he never cries - not even when he hurts his eyes with jagged nylabones (yes that has happened - long story) or when he blew his knee out...)
After a long couple of days and endless tests, a CT Scan/MRI and Spinal Tap, he has been diagnosed with Hydrocephalus. The good news is it is not lymphoma, it is not from a tick bite, and it is not from an infection causing inflammation. The difficulty is the cause is unknown (it isn't a physical blockage preventing the fluid from draining either)...and now we know why he started having seizures in 2015, this fluid has been building for a while.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Wilbur is 6 1/2 now. This is normally seen in puppies. He is on a ton of medications, prednisolone (which I have always tried to avoid), antibiotics, Prilosec and Phenobarbitol. He is very sedated and drugged up, I feel like he just isn't even here anymore. I don't know what to do, if this is something that he will live through or if he will always have to be this drugged. Am I allowing him to live a life of misery?
I know there are no answers and in a week I have another visit to the neurologist, but if anyone has any advice or knowledge it would be so appreciated.
xo