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Kitten experiencing a bad cluster seizure. Details below.

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This kitten has recently been put down, but in the process of him developing cluster seizures, I found other, similar videos helpful in my research so, I'm sharing this one in hopes that it'll be helpful to someone else.

**Details which were important to include based on my resulting research:
We found him when he was a day or two old.
He'd fallen off the 14 foot high, 2nd floor porch of the abandoned apartment building in front of our property.
He was given an initial examination which concluded that there was no visible signs of damage to his being.
With no mom in sight at that time, we bottle fed him around the clock for 4 days until we were able to identify and procure the mother cat who, then, nursed him and his brother until weaning at 8 weeks old.
From the time we found him until the time we put him down, he was an exclusively indoor cat.
The kitten was 10 weeks old when he first started having seizures.
He started having seizures 2 days after being neutered.
The pain killer, Loxicom, was administered with the anesthesia.
Capstar was given to him the same day by the vet who preformed the neutering.
I do not believe he was tested for preexisting problems prior to being given the anesthesia.
His brother was lethargic coming home to us on the same day after the neutering.
This kitten, however, seemed hyped up and "twitchy" from that same day, and on, until the seizures started to make him lethargic.
He ate less at the soft food meals the last several days before putting him down.
This was the worst one of three seizures in the last 24 hours of his life.
At the 2:31 through the 3:12 mark, the kitten was yowling.
We tried a combination of 2 drops helichrysum and maybe 5 drops lavender essential oil, heavily diluted in 4 tbsp of liquid coconut oil after the first of those three seizures, and just before this seizure.
This one and the last one (the next day) happened shortly after eating. Others may have happened around meals of soft food, but I didn't think of looking for that detail right off.
All seizures woke him from a sleeping state.
There were no other dramatic symptoms of note: no vomiting, no diarrhea, no notable increase in drinking or urination, no swelling or yellowing of the eyes, no yellowing of the skin or paling of the gums.
The vet who put him down, without testing per our request, believed him to have either had a congenital defect or have suffered some trauma from the fall, trauma which wasn't triggered until maybe after the neutering.

**My children, particularly my daughter, are crying in the background because the days leading up to this seizure were hard on them realizing that their kitten was taking a bad turn, and that putting him down was imminent. This seizure came on suddenly and was particularly bad.

As for my parenting: I was trying to capture the seizure for the vet and at the same time get my children away from watching what was upsetting to them. All future comments criticizing my children's response or my parenting will be deleted stop being assholes.

posted by capironey7