I decided that must be what it was, because of the rapid back and forth eye movement - it reminded me of when I had mild vertigo and felt that the room was spinning when I was lying down and turned my head.
The veterinarian saw her stumbling when I took her in in June, and said she had a stroke. I asked him to prescribe prednisone, which some people on the internet said had helped their dogs recover from this. She recovered in a week or so.
This time she kept crossing her left hind leg farther to the right than her right leg, and tumbled to the left, and would try to get up but would push with her front legs and spin, because she couldn't seem to get her back legs in the right position to lift her back end- they stuck straight forward between her front legs. She lost control of her bladder and bowels. We helped her for a week or so, but it just seemed like the time had come to not make her feel helpless anymore.
Was your dog old when she had peripheral vestibular syndrome? When I looked up her symptoms in June, some websites call it Old Dog Vestibular disease.
Thanks for the article, I hope others who have dogs will be aware of what those symptoms mean.
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