Jossu
Member
Our sweetheart, Mauri, was diagnosed with SM about a month ago...
We live in Finland and the awareness of the disease in cavaliers is not really widespead here. The vet (neorologist) gave us gabapentin and prednisolon to start the medication with... Well, as Mauri's symptoms are mild, the dosage was way too much for our lil' boy. He was unconscious after taking his meds! He's ok now, but he's off the meds.
The dosage was 300 mg gabapentin twise a day (600mg/day) and 5mg prednisolon once a day. As I have been reading the messages here and also some other SM sites, I have found that most of you give 100mg three times a day, am I right? We have an appointment with a different neorologist next week and will discuss the meds again. For now we are of all meds until we get a second opinion. Also, I see that prednisolon is not recommended for mild cases... So, I guess we'll discuss that as well with the different neurologist.
There are absolutely no info on the medication in Finnish and the vets don't really seem to know about SM either! It's a very frustrating situation!
Mauri also has mild heart murmur (they found it at the same time as he had his MRI done). Do any of you use both heart medication and meds for SM? This is another subject matter we must discuss with the vet.
It's been a rough month or so... Just a while ago we thought we had a perfectly healthy dog, and now he is diagnosed with two different (serious) sicknesses! we took him to MRI after seeing the document "pedigree dogs exposed"...
I'm waiting forward to your replies! we are in real need for support and information here!
Best, Johanna
We live in Finland and the awareness of the disease in cavaliers is not really widespead here. The vet (neorologist) gave us gabapentin and prednisolon to start the medication with... Well, as Mauri's symptoms are mild, the dosage was way too much for our lil' boy. He was unconscious after taking his meds! He's ok now, but he's off the meds.
The dosage was 300 mg gabapentin twise a day (600mg/day) and 5mg prednisolon once a day. As I have been reading the messages here and also some other SM sites, I have found that most of you give 100mg three times a day, am I right? We have an appointment with a different neorologist next week and will discuss the meds again. For now we are of all meds until we get a second opinion. Also, I see that prednisolon is not recommended for mild cases... So, I guess we'll discuss that as well with the different neurologist.
There are absolutely no info on the medication in Finnish and the vets don't really seem to know about SM either! It's a very frustrating situation!
Mauri also has mild heart murmur (they found it at the same time as he had his MRI done). Do any of you use both heart medication and meds for SM? This is another subject matter we must discuss with the vet.
It's been a rough month or so... Just a while ago we thought we had a perfectly healthy dog, and now he is diagnosed with two different (serious) sicknesses! we took him to MRI after seeing the document "pedigree dogs exposed"...
I'm waiting forward to your replies! we are in real need for support and information here!
Best, Johanna