Dizzy after a gallop

[Jenko109]

So today my lurcher came along to the horse field.

She milled around for five minutes and then decided she fancied a gallop and had a brief 10 second zoomies.

She then stopped, went dizzy and fell over. Tried to stand and fell back down.

I held her quiet for 30 seconds or so and then encouraged her to stand back up and she was absolutely fine again.

So we went to the vet and had a full blood panel done this evening which has all come back completely normal. Her heart sounds fine.

They have said to monitor to see if she has a further episode, in which case she will need to be referred to a specialist to be fitted with a blood pressure monitor or something.

Has anyone else had this happen to their dog and have any insight to add?

She is 10 this year.

 

[AmyMay]

This happened to a dog that came for daycare during COVID (owner was a GP). A lurcher too. He completely collapsed. We rushed him to the vets where he was put on a drip and made a thankfully full recovery. It never happened again with us over the six months that we had him.

In his case it was hyperglycaemia.

Did they test your dogs glucose levels?

 

[MurphysMinder]

Does she have border collie in her ? There’s a condition in collies that causes exercise induced collapse , but I think it starts younger .

 

[Jenko109]

Unsure about glucose. Will ask them. Is that checked in bloods as I did get the more expensive, comprehensive panel done.

She does have a dash of collie, however this was just a ten second sprint so dont think EIC would be the culprit.

 

[AmyMay]

Unsure about glucose. Will ask them. Is that checked in bloods as I did get the more expensive, comprehensive panel done.

She does have a dash of collie, however this was just a ten second sprint so dont think EIC would be the culprit.

I’m not sure if it’s routinely checked sorry.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Was it warm? Heat exhaustion? Anything she could have run into? Vestibular?

 

[poiuytrewq]

So today my lurcher came along to the horse field.

She milled around for five minutes and then decided she fancied a gallop and had a brief 10 second zoomies.

She then stopped, went dizzy and fell over. Tried to stand and fell back down.

I held her quiet for 30 seconds or so and then encouraged her to stand back up and she was absolutely fine again.

So we went to the vet and had a full blood panel done this evening which has all come back completely normal. Her heart sounds fine.

They have said to monitor to see if she has a further episode, in which case she will need to be referred to a specialist to be fitted with a blood pressure monitor or something.

Has anyone else had this happen to their dog and have any insight to add?

She is 10 this year.

I've not read all the replies but yes i did have a similar thing with an old dog some years ago.
He used to come running with me. Came most days so he was pretty fit and able to do it. One day i just realised he wasn't along side and he'd keeled over a little way back (like seconds). Went to the vets and all was fine.
It happened again, and again when we got to the vets all was good.
It then started happening more often, he'd always recover quickly but this time the vets diagnosed a heart defect. I can't really think what it was called-someone here will know, its very common.
Anyhow he had medication and did stop running, was fine still doing normal dog walks, off lead still able to run round a bit but not "forced a few miles"
He did really well and lived years longer.

 

[Jenko109]

Was it warm? Heat exhaustion? Anything she could have run into? Vestibular?

Not particularly warm and we had only been there five minutes for which she had barely broken out of a walk for the majority of that time, so definitely not heat exhaustion.

Was out in the open field and I watched her do her sprint so didnt run into anything.

Will look into vestibular.

Thank you

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Was it warm? Heat exhaustion? Anything she could have run into? Vestibular?

This possibly my friend had similar happen to her dog yesterday because the temperature suddenly went up and the dog ran around too much then he just totally exhausted himself, he even tried to put himself in the bath I think he just over heated.

They too there's to the vet because he just wasn't right and they gave a steroid jab and within 20 minutes he was fine.