No experience with seizures, but I'm sorry to read about your Ragdoll's problems. I hope he can be treated for this. I'd be beside myself too if it were my cat.

epilepsy is a very common disease in both dogs and cats and I have treated hundreds of these patients, most with excellent results (not all, though). Usually for cats phenobarb works well as a single drug treatment, twice a day and though some cats are a bit 'stoned' for the first week or so, most return to totally normal behavior and activity. The dose usually started is a low end dose and then increased if the patient continues to have 'too frequent' seizures... what does that mean? It means that all epilepsy cases are assumed to still have a seizure now and then (many thankfully never have another seizure while on meds), but there is an 'acceptable' seizure frequency (usually one mild one every 2-3 months is considered exceptable, though it would of course be nice if no patients ever had another seizure again).

Most seizures do not adversely affect cats or dogs unless they are extremely violent or last for a long time (meaning over a few minutes). Long seizures can result in high body temperature, sometimes so high (over 107F) that the brain will start to be come damaged. . This is why you should always rush your pet in if they are seizing continuously. But we rarely ask our clients to bring in their pets if the seizure was a short one and if they seem OK afterwards.. there is little we are going to do about it afterwards and blood work is almost always normal. Another exception to this non-intervention is if your pet is having 'cluster seizures; (a lot in a row- several in a short period or even in a day).. then we recommend hospitalizing and monitoring closely so we can give injectable medications instead of oral ones to helps stop the cluster.

So to answer your questions, putting your cat on phenobarb MAY, and with luck, WILL prevent all future seizures, but there is certainly no guarantee. Seizures are 'too often' if they are violent (then even one is too often) or more frequent than one every 1-2 months. There is nothing else you can do to minimize the risk of seizures other than medication. You can minimize the risk of secondary problems during a seizure by making sure your pet cannot fall into a swimming pool or down a long flight of stairs by keeping your pet away from such areas at all times (hard to do keep cats from stairs, though). Seizures can look painful, but from what most people that have epilepsy say, it is usually not painful.. .just scary and eventually annoying (when they are finaliy used to having them)... and disorienting.

I have no idea what nuroclav is... must be either a misspelling or some brand name of another drug (maybe a brand name for midazolam or valium I have not heard of?).

Hello, thank you for your replies.

Today our kitty had another seizure, he didnt do a mad dash and he didnt urinate either today. He just foamed at the mouth.

We of course took our baby boy into the vets and they told us that we can start using medication, BUT, there are still few things we havent explored to eliminate anything else, so we have decided to go and get brain scans done and liver test's to see if thats causing them.

Vet said the only thing she is worried about, that if it is the liver, then giving him epilepsy medication could be fatal.

We're heading 500km south to Perth at the end of November for further testing.

Today's seizure seemed to be a lot more calm, and we knew exactly what to do this time. Just very scary.

thanks for the update x. I'm glad the vet warned you of the med risk if he has liver problems. But it is worrying, we had a dog who would pass out from syncope related to heart murmur, and the episodes were disturbing. Good luck, hoping for a good ending for you & your ragdoll.