i just watched this video of this dog that ate magic mushrooms lol true storyJust an update less than a month in: I've managed to titrate the dog's dosage so that she doesn't get high, but is still to this point 100% seizure-free. Spoke with the vet last week and while he tried to hide it, he was clearly amazed at how she's doing. I wish it was easier to get my oil tested so I could know better what I'm actually giving her, as it's also what I'm giving a dear family member who was just diagnosed with metastasized lung cancer. Due to his advanced age the typical treatments of chemo and radiation do not apply.
Thank you, it is! Like I said in the beginning this is all about quality of life for the dog, and she's definitely got that right now. I just wish I knew more about the oil I'm making, because while I know it's got some CBD in it I don't know how much.good news, and good too that your vet is paying attention
Sorry, life got hectic. Great to hear she's doing well. I wouldn't stress too much about testing, it just puts numbers to your same titration efforts. If your material and extraction methods are relatively consistent, the resulting strength should be close enough to work with small adjustments (of course standardizing would be even better).@LittleDabbie -- thanks for that, I'll do exactly that. The oil is very much a sludge, but I'm sure the coconut oil (very deeply colored now) should suffice given how little the dog needs to control the grand mal seizures.
He feels that it's not warranted in this case, based on how everything's happened his answer was the prednisone. We spent a long time discussing whether or not to go ahead and image her, we're not all that far from UCDavis. Not only can we not afford it, if it shows there *is* a lesion or tumor, treatment options remain the same (again, according to the vet).
Titrating has been the difficult part, you're 100% correct about that. It's the main reason why I add so much coconut oil, to make titration a bit easier and overdosing the poor dog that much more difficult. So far I've managed to stop all grand mal seizures (I've been keeping extra ice packs in the freezer just in case, because yeah, they get her SO hot!) but I have on two occasions clearly gotten her too high altogether, and my own feelings are that it's not right to do that to an animal who doesn't understand what's happening to them and didn't choose it.
I've never heard of this. It would probably be easier than trying to keep the oil inside a chunk of tuna (she's gotten wise to my other tricks from when she had a bladder infection). I'll try it tonight. Do you think I could put it under her tongue and have the same effectiveness?
Can you explain this a bit more to me? I can feel the weather changes in my sinuses and knees. I notice that when she's had any kind of seizure her pupils are uneven and she seems to be sensitive to both loud and/or sharp noises, as well as visual stimuli, flinches hard and moves her head away. Is there anything I can do to help her with that? I covered her head yesterday but she didn't like it at all.
@Douglas.C -- you just gave me a bunch to chew on, I've never read a single one of our winterizing threads. D'oh!
Either way, I know one thing for certain--the cannabis oil isn't causing the problems the vet told us to watch for if we started her on the prednisone and as long as she doesn't have another grand mal I think we're keeping her quality of life up.
What I don't know for sure is whether or not this will mask me being able to see when the dog's time is really up. This one I'm playing entirely by ear, but so far so good, she's wagging her tail and seems to be happy except when she's going to have a petit mal. Fortunately those are very, very brief.
I'll get my sludge separated from the coconut oil this morning, thanks again!!
He did mention that it's not uncommon, but then he decided to Rx the Prednisone instead of the phenobarbital (typical Tx for dogs with seizures, yes?). He is so confident that it's a brain tumor, but the way she's been I'm not sure.
Last night she poked herself pretty good with one of my mother's cacti out in front, no blood but she sure felt it. She's seen it before, but she stepped on it and then poked her nose hard with it, and that's suggesting to me that her vision is going as the vet said would happen. She was sniffing where all the dogs pee, and it was dark out.
This thread is awesome, thank you all for sharing your experiences with these difficult situations.No, I hadn't started doing that but was wondering how to approach it. You've given me a good outline because I wasn't a good mother and allowed my kids to knock the hell out of themselves. Thank you VERY MUCH for this information, it's extremely helpful.
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