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Post by freswood on Sept 15, 2007 0:06:42 GMT
My rainbow lorikeet had a seizure two days ago. His blood test results came back negative, so we know it's not a toxin, diabetes, heavy metal poisoning, etc. Has anybody had experience with bird seizures?
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Post by Berserka on Sept 15, 2007 5:34:12 GMT
I've had a budgie & a lovebird have a stroke but not seizures. Does your vet have any other ideas?
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Post by freswood on Sept 16, 2007 1:47:08 GMT
He's going to call on Monday, because he's not in during the weekend. However, he said it could most likely either be epilepsy, or a lorikeet-specific disease (and they don't really know what causes it).
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Post by judy on Sept 16, 2007 8:09:25 GMT
let us know how you go freeswood. Hows yogi doing?
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Post by freswood on Sept 22, 2007 5:26:01 GMT
Yogie had two more seizures - more severe than the first one. I wasn't home, so mum took him to the vet (for 2.5 hours!). He had an X-ray, so we know there are no tumours. The vet has narrowed it down to zinc poisoning or epilepsy. The blood test results come back next week. In the meantime, in case it is zinc poisoning, I'm wondering what to do.
I suspect it could be his cage causing it. We got it from the previous owner, and looking closely at it, it looks like some of the enamel has worn off. How do I distinguish between zinc and other metals? I'm really not sure what to do - I've kept Yoges out of his cage most of the day and he's only gone back to eat.
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Post by telmadee on Sept 22, 2007 6:57:41 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2007 18:12:10 GMT
sorry to read about this freswood, you and yogi are in my thoughts
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Post by pied on Sept 23, 2007 22:46:40 GMT
hope Yogi gets better Freswood..
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Post by freswood on Sept 23, 2007 23:36:41 GMT
It's absolutely killing me having to wait for the test results. Yoges has developed a tic - he holds his claw up in the same manner that he does when having a seizure. I think he's realised it gets him attention, because everyone comes running! What a dag. In the meantime I've been keeping him out of his cage as much as possible. He's got the most awesome play area on my desk and the surrounding floor. He's taken up both my shelves, which have all of his toys, and bits of cloth hanging up that he likes to hide behind. A stick leads down from the top shelf to an open shoebox on the floor, in which he loves to play with his ball. I love my Yogie Though he's quite distracting while I'm trying to study! Yr 12 exams in a bit over a month!
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Post by freswood on Sept 27, 2007 6:13:42 GMT
UPDATE:
I found out today that it's not zinc poisoning, so everything's been ruled out apart from epilepsy. Yogie's still fine, so I'm relieved that it's something that can be controlled.
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Post by silvercloud on Oct 3, 2007 4:17:21 GMT
Well thats good to hear.
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