Oh help plz!!!

[Kiki]

Oh @CrazyCrttr75 I am so sorry she isn't well.
Hopefully she pulls through but prepare yourself for the worst.
Sometimes there isn't anything we humans can do.

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

Oh @CrazyCrttr75 I am so sorry she isn't well.
Hopefully she pulls through but prepare yourself for the worst.
Sometimes there isn't anything we humans can do.

Thank you. I know. I was up pretty much all night. I might have dozed a few minutes here or there. She had a seizure every hour thru the night, sometimes twice an hr. We're up to 17 seizures in total so far. I'm writing them all down and the time that they happen. I had to take her water away from inside the brooder because every time she'd have a seizure she would either bury it in shavings or knock it over from flailing about. She wasn't hardly drinking anyways. She's still with me so far. I've tried scrambling up an egg to see if she'd eat it and I still can't entice her to eat. She barely drinks. It just breaks my heart to see her like this. Part of me wants to keep fighting because I've read articles where the duck will pull through, even after having days of seizures. Then the other part of me feels selfish and like I am making her suffer. I am going to get around and drive to Tractor Supply here in a bit and pick up some electrolyte stuff and a better dropper that I can use to try and feed her with. I'm waiting for her next seizure before I leave her, which should be any time now. That way I am, hopefully, not away from her if it should happen again. Just makes me feel better. The other ducks are doing great. No one else is showing signs of anything. I am trying to prepare myself should the worst happen. If she goes, it better be in my arms knowing she is not alone. But I am still hoping she'll pull through. I just don't know what kind of damage these things are doing to her. This is just where I am for now.

 

[Kiki]

Thank you. I know. I was up pretty much all night. I might have dozed a few minutes here or there. She had a seizure every hour thru the night, sometimes twice an hr. We're up to 17 seizures in total so far. I'm writing them all down and the time that they happen. I had to take her water away from inside the brooder because every time she'd have a seizure she would either bury it in shavings or knock it over from flailing about. She wasn't hardly drinking anyways. She's still with me so far. I've tried scrambling up an egg to see if she'd eat it and I still can't entice her to eat. She barely drinks. It just breaks my heart to see her like this. Part of me wants to keep fighting because I've read articles where the duck will pull through, even after having days of seizures. Then the other part of me feels selfish and like I am making her suffer. I am going to get around and drive to Tractor Supply here in a bit and pick up some electrolyte stuff and a better dropper that I can use to try and feed her with. I'm waiting for her next seizure before I leave her, which should be any time now. That way I am, hopefully, not away from her if it should happen again. Just makes me feel better. The other ducks are doing great. No one else is showing signs of anything. I am trying to prepare myself should the worst happen. If she goes, it better be in my arms knowing she is not alone. But I am still hoping she'll pull through. I just don't know what kind of damage these things are doing to her. This is just where I am for now.

I feel so bad for you. I hope she pulls through but it doesn't sound good at all.

 

[townchicks]

Hang in there. I don't know about ducks, but I know how scary and helpless you can feel when a pet has a seizure. Good luck.

 

[Bettyboop7499]

Ok. Here's an update. The vet checked her over. Checked her eyes, listened to her heart. She has an irregular heartbeat that caught his attention. She said overall that she looked healthy. Said she was a little skinny but nothing major. She weighs 2.9 lbs. Her diet that we're feeding her was good. He checked for calcium and glucose levels. A deficiency in those can cause/lead to seizures. Both came back normal. I talked him in to doing a vitamin b complex injection, in the hopes that it would help give her a boost. We haven't been able to entice her to eat anything since the seizures started. They tried some green pasty stuff. Nothing. They even tried canned cat food. She just is not having it. Just turns her head away. We have no pesticides in yard. No toxins that I can think of. Her pool is a kiddie pool and not a pond that's fished out of or anything. We can get her to drink a little bit and it's mixed with vitamin b complex and a niacin pill for extra measure. I am out of electrolyte stuff. I will have to pick some more up at Tractor Supply tomorrow. We are at a loss. The other bloodwork that they could do would cost $203, and it would have to be sent off. So that's why we did the glucose and calcium because they can be done in house. I have done what I can. As I was pulling in my driveway she had another seizure. I stopped the car and went to try and comfort her. Her poor head was buried in the shavings while she was having it. I don't know if she could've suffocated but that's what went thru my head so that was scary. That makes 5 so far today. I have her in her brooder box. I have her some water in there. She has finally drank a few sips. I mixed her up some of her food with a tiny bit of chicken broth, but mostly water and made her a soupy mash. I tried giving her some but she wouldn't eat. I am hoping she will try it at some point. She hasn't yet. I am supposed to call the vet in the morning and let him know how she is doing. I don't know what else to do for her but hope for the best. Thank you all. I'll give another update tomorrow. I am drained.

Oh wow! I'm so sorry! As someone who has seizures this would be horrible to watch one of my animals or worse child have-shudder of the thought...the helplessness that I know my husband feels is excruciating! And the dazed look is just that..the duck is trying to figure out the world-everything at once..who it is what it is where it is, what is it seeing and the unknowing is frightening...until the brain resets and comes back but then the body is trying to recover. All the muscles and tendons have been tensed to unknown extents! Just so you have more of an idea of what your duck is going through. And how often now is she having them? I really do pray thre is a cure!

 

[Kiki]

How are things going today @CrazyCrttr75 ?

 

[Bettyboop7499]

Yes, how are things?

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

How are things going today @CrazyCrttr75 ?

Yesterday was rough. Still couldn't get her to eat or drink. Eating I'm not so worried about but with drinking I am. Seizures were coming pretty regularly. You could tell she was feeling pretty crummy. By the end of the day and after speaking with the vet, we started entertaining the idea of euthanasia. A place in Nashville will do it and a necropsy for free for "livestock" animals. There's a fee for companion animals. I had tried to steel myself in coming to that decision. It was too late in the day so I was going to have to wait until today. My hubby suggested that maybe let her have a bath one last time and who knows, maybe it will encourage her to drink a little of the water. So I filled up the tub just enough incase I had to grab her if she had a seizure but deep enough that she could float. She just floated and slowly turned herself around in a circle. No splashing. No dipping her head in the water. No bathing. Just floated. But she did drink a little as well. Yay! I couldn't get her to drink anything else for the rest of the night but I'll take the small victories. And now I am having 2nd thoughts. Through the night last night she had done much better. She was going a couple hours between seizures and I was actually able to get some decent rest. This morning she was a bit more alert. She was actually up and walking around. She was even making little quack quack grunts to me. And the best part. SHE WANTED TO DRINK! Now the "water" I have mixed up has a squirt of nutridrench, hydro-hen 3-in-1 (has probiotics, electrolytes and acidifiers in it), b complex all mixed in a gallon jug and then I just pour some in a bowl for her. But the important thing is that she was drinking and I didn't have to force her to. It gave me hope. I know we aren't out of the woods and I knew she'd have more seizures but I guess I am clinging to those signs of improvement. She's had multiple seizures today so far. She had 3 back to back at 30 minutes apart. Then she went 1 1/2 hr. before having another one. I put 1/2 tsp of activated charcoal in 8 oz of water and have gotten her to drink some of it. I'm hoping if there are any toxins in her body that maybe it would help draw them out. I'm just desperately trying and I figured it wouldn't hurt her. Now she just had another seizure 5 minutes ago. If she's going to fight and not give up then by golly I will fight too. I've given her a name now. Xena (pronounced zee-na). She's my Xena warrior duck princess. LOL Corny I know. I am going to take it moment by moment. I may still end up losing her. I am still trying to google and research and read to try and get a clue as to what I am dealing with. I found something that caught my attention and I am going to call the vet and see what he thinks and if it's something we can check for. I'll letcha know what happens.
I'm still

 

[Kiki]

Great share what you found please, I'd like to read about it too.

 

[Kiki]

Have you thought about forcing food?
Did you ask the vet if that is an option?


Also...
Have you thought about the Nutri-Drench straight to the mouth instead of mixing it with water?