I appreciate reading all the advice here. I must say my personal experience was more about having someone guide me in the right direction. Pepper’s “flare ups” are random, but they follow the exact same pattern and mostly, not always, but mostly happen at night. When I wrote in originally we had a flare up 3 Saturdays in a row, The third one was awful, then 3 days in a row that were minor and now it’s been 6 weeks and nothing.
And yes, it’s exactly the same, you take them to the vet and they see a perfectly healthy dog and the common answer is that they have never seen anything like it. I was starting to feel crazy. I deal with dog trainers, I have a group of dog friends I see weekly but because Pepper mostly has these spells in the middle of the night, only my boyfriend and I have witnessed them.
Anyway, I’m just venting because I’m sure you feel as helpless as I did. I did take her to vet, and as predicted my vet prescribed Pepcid, said it looked like acid reflux. I told him I was willing to try his way once and then I will take the next steps. Since that appointment, she’s been fine. I haven’t had to try the pepcid yet. However the longest we’ve gone with no spells is about 5 months, so we will see.
