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I have a twelve-year-old female minature dachshund. A few ...


Sent to Pet Experts April 03, 2006 2:10 p.m.
I have a twelve-year-old female minature dachshund. A few months ago, she collasped and shook for a brief second two times. We rushed her to the vet. A blood test revealed she has cushings disease. She is still collapsing for a brief second. It seems she gets paralyzed for a second and comes right out of it. It started before the Lysodern medication and she has been getting the medicine for over two months now. What can this be. The vet says that she is not concerned because the dog comes right out of it. There does not seem to be pain involved because she does not make any noise.

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Age: 12; Female; Breed: MInature dachshund

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April 03, 2006 2:22 p.m. (12 minutes and 16 seconds later) 		REPLIED to Info Request Check Mark
Has the vet done a thorough investigation of the heart?
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Sent April 03, 2006 2:26 p.m. (3 minutes and 15 seconds later)
She has not done a thorough investigation of the heart. When Gretchen first collasped, she listened to the heart and said it was healthy and strong.
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April 03, 2006 4:14 p.m. (1 hour and 48 minutes later) 		REPLIED Check Mark

I would want to look more towards this as the cause. When dogs have a heart condition, they will often faint, particularly when you come home from work, when you feed them, or when you go to pet them. This is because the heart speeds up. When they faint, they will fall over and stare straight ahead. Then they get up and act fine until it happens again.

I would really want to look further at this before I felt safe writing it off.

Let me know if you still have questions.
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Reply to Tammy Falkner
Sent April 03, 2006 9:36 p.m. (5 hours and 21 minutes later)
I understand what you are trying to say, however, I don't believe it has anything to do with fainting. This does not ever happen when we come home from work or feeding or during petting. It seems to happen when she has either been laying down for a while or most recently when she is just manuvering around. She is never excited or even happy enough that I would say her heart is racing. If that was the cause I think she would have done it in front of the vet because she gets very anxious when we go to the vets and especially when we are not in the room with her and the vet (she does better with them when we leave the room, she doesn't have to be muzzled).
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April 03, 2006 10:42 p.m. (1 hour and 6 minutes later) 		ACCEPTED Check Mark
If the heart condition has been ruled out, I would agree with your vet and not be overly concerned about it as long as she recovers quickly.
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