Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a really good homeopathic vet in the South Coast area ( East or West) please?

I am looking for a deeply intuitive vet for a dog with some symptoms that are not being helped through conventional veterinary medicine, so if anyone can recommend or even give some case studies(successful or otherwise) we would love to hear them.

Thanks
~VM~

Might be a good idea to tell us more about your dogs ailments as I'm sure there are loads of folk on here with a wealth of experience that just might be able to help you. The help and advice given on this forum never fails to amaze me. Totally brilliant !

Margaret

Hi,

It's so hard to say, there has been 4 seizures over 2 years ( everything checked out that could possibly be checked out but no MRI as will not put her under General Anasthetic again which (seemed) to induce last seizure (even without pre-med).

Enlarged lymph glands (local to throat only) no other swollen glands and there is a problem with the mouth, excessive ( in my book) yawning and licking as if to get rid of something, a sometimes dry unproductive cough/snoring and a strange catching of the breath that could almost be like someone hyperventilating or someone laughing then inward breathing to catch the breath. Teeth are all fine, recently had them scaled, cleaned etc , throat does not seem to be sore but she is unhappy to have her mouth fiddled with now for brushing ( ex. Champion so she is used to showing and being told "teeth" for a judge and standing like a rock and she has never forgotten it)

Coventional vet - who we have a good relationship with, has checked heart, lungs etc nothing showing but in absence of evidence of systemic disease has fallen into the epilepsy diagnosis and as this dog is almost 12 and this began just after 10, it is very late in the day for sudden idiopathic epilepsy.

There is no trigger or particular association that I can come up with ( except there was never any problem with even the tiniest of focal seizures ) until she had been spayed- her first G/A, then a change in routine for one day on a hot day last summer, another one a few months after that, then total change in life and routine but no seizure for over 6 months ( when stress would be expected to produce one despite every measure taken to ensure her comfort and security), then one after surgery ( G/A) again - 8 weeks ago and now another one, one week after vet visit and anti-inflammatory injection/course of anti-biotics.

Am thoroughly researching my " epilepsy" homework and it's just not adding up. Hence turning to homeopathy and a vet who has sent me two remedies and I am just keen to know what a homeopaths approach would be.

The ( disturbing) message I am getting seems to be " be grateful the seizures are less than most epileptic dogs and she is a good age" my point is, she should not be having them AT ALL, somehow she was compromised in surgery or with drugs. She has a careful diet, every exercise, warmth, security and stress situation has been carefully addressed, at almost 12 years, she looks and moves like a dog half her age and there is nothing in 6 generations of her pedigree to suggest anything else - we are more than careful environmentally, nothing potentially hazardous or toxic gets near her or in her body ( except for the treats I now know to be almost lethal)

Sorry, did you want her life history ;)

Thanks
~VM~

This maybe worth looking at. http://www.holisticvet.co.uk Good luck.

Depends how far south west you want.

There is a very good one one in Williton, Somerset that I have used.

Julia & Hooligans

P.s good looking too!!

That one is a bit far for me, but you made me giggle, so a well worthwhile post! Thanks ;)

Hi V.M., heres a list of vets with H/pathic qualifications in UK. Hope you find someone from it to help your dog.
http://www.bahvs.com/vetmfhom.htm

The link below lets you do a search for the area you live in.
http://www.trusthomeopathy.org/trust/tru_sea.html

Good luck :)

Christine, Spain.

Julia, I am about to move to Burnham-on-Sea. Please could you let me have the details of the Williton Vet? Thanks.

Hi Val

Springfield Vetinary Centre, 32 Long Street, Williton, Som. 01984 632212

Julia & hooligans

Many thanks.

I can put you in contact with one in South Devon.

All contributions, and recommendations gratefully received Sam! Thanks.

That goes for me too, thanks to you all and Christine, I shall use that local one. :)

Nick Munnings, of Munnings Mitchell & Peplow, Totnes Tel 01803 866283

Thanks Sam.