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I had a pony who had grand mal seizures. They were quite different from what is described here. She would flip herself over violently and then lay on the ground paddling like she was swimming. It would take several minutes for her to come out of it and then she would be stiff and strange acting for a day or two afterward.

 

the first time it happened, I had a hold of her halter, not realizing anything was wrong. She flippped me over with her! This is a little 500 pound, 40 inch pony and I'm a big person!  After that, I was always very careful never to hold onto her halter and never to get between her and a fence or tree or other object.

 

We had a lot of testing done on her and nothing was conclusive. We ended up euthanizing her for chronic laminitis and we never determined if it was related to the seizure thing or if it was two separate things happening to her.

 

chris

"Susan E. Garlinghouse, D.V.M." <suendavid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As others have commented, it *could* be seizures, all kinds of neural
> issues. However, much more common is just a very transient period of
> hypotension, ie, loss of blood pressure to the brain. Pretty common,
> sometimes when a horse flips his head just right, usually a straight up,
> nose-in-the-air sort of posture. Blood pressure drops for just a second or
> two, they faint, fall over like a ton of bricks, and then get up and are
> fine in a minute or two. They go over all stiff-legged and sometimes lay
> there sort of twitching for a few seconds. Scares the bejesus out of the
> owner, but it isn't anything to get frantic over if it happens just this
> once. If it happens again, then have your vet come and give him a
> once-over. If it ever does happen again, think back to what was going on at
> the time... bet he had just flipped his head straight up.
>
> We get
>  panicky emergency phone call JUST like yours about six times a year
> and it's ALWAYS a horse that had just been flipping his head around.
>
> Susan Garlinghouse, DVM
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ridecamp Guest
> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:46 AM
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> Subject: [RC] Horse collapse question
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> Please Reply to: Julie jules@xxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> A VERY strange thing happened to my horse yesterday and wondered if anyone
> has experienced or heard of this happening before. 
> I was applying fly spray to my boy in his stall before turning him out (he
> hates this and usually throws his head up and backs away from me)he did this
> as usual but went stiff and actually fell over on his side in his stall! He
> got up right away and seem dazed for a moment but within 30
>  seconds or so
> was fine. I let him outside and he began eatting, everything appeared to be
> normal.
> Any ideas?
> Julie
>
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