Dog Seizure Medication Tracker for Epilepsy Care

If your dog is on phenobarbital, potassium bromide, levetiracetam, or a combination, the dose has to land on time. Remewdy reminds you at every scheduled dose, logs what you gave, records every seizure event, and prints a clean PDF your vet can read in ten seconds.

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Idiopathic epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological disease in dogs. The condition itself is manageable for most dogs on long-term anticonvulsants. The most common reason treatment appears to fail is not the drug, it is the schedule. When a dose lands two hours late, or a Saturday gets skipped because the prescription bottle was in a bag in the car, serum levels dip and breakthrough seizures become more likely.

0.5 to 5.7%
of dogs are affected by idiopathic epilepsy, with higher rates in certain breeds like Border Collies and Australian Shepherds
ACVIM consensus statement, De Risio et al., BMC Veterinary Research, 2015 and 2016

Why Precise Timing Matters for Anticonvulsants

Anticonvulsant drugs do not prevent seizures by being in the body. They prevent seizures by maintaining a stable serum concentration above a threshold. The threshold is specific to the dog. The stability is what you control at home.

Phenobarbital runs on a steady 12-hour rhythm

Phenobarbital is usually dosed every 12 hours. Most neurologists accept a give-within-one-hour window around the scheduled time. Drift beyond that, repeatedly, can lower trough serum levels into a range where breakthrough seizures become more likely. Blood levels are rechecked every 6 to 12 months to confirm the dose still sits in the target therapeutic range. If your real dose timing looks nothing like the prescription, the bloodwork does not tell your vet the truth about the drug. It tells a story about the schedule.

Potassium bromide has a long memory

Potassium bromide (KBr) has a half-life of roughly 24 days in dogs. A single late dose barely moves the needle. What moves the needle is weeks of drift, or a month of accidentally switched twice-a-day to once-a-day. KBr blood levels take three to four months to stabilize after any change, so consistency over that window is what matters.

Missed doses can cluster the seizures

Cluster seizures, two or more seizures within 24 hours, are one of the main reasons dogs end up at the emergency vet on anticonvulsant therapy. A common trigger is a skipped or very late dose. A written log that shows "Friday 20:00 dose missed, cluster seizure Saturday 03:00" gives your vet the actual cause, instead of looking like a drug that stopped working and being switched for no good reason.

How Remewdy Reminds and Logs

The core loop is the same every day. Reminder fires. You give the pill. You tap the reminder closed. The dose is logged with the exact time it was taken, not the time it was scheduled.

Time Sensitive reminders

Mark your anticonvulsant reminders as Time Sensitive. They break through iPhone Focus modes including Sleep and Do Not Disturb, which is the difference between a 22:00 dose and a 07:00 dose when you fell asleep on the couch.

Follow-up alert if you do not tap

If you dismiss the reminder without marking the dose given, Remewdy re-alerts a short time later. A tap in the kitchen that never made it to the phone does not become a missed dose silently.

One-tap dose logging with 5-second undo

Mark the dose given with one tap from the Today view. If you tap the wrong dose, a 5-second undo toast catches it. Every log records the real time of administration and, if different, the person who gave it (useful in households where two people share the schedule).

Seizure event log

Log a seizure event separately from the medication log. Date, time, duration, type (focal, generalized, cluster), and a free-text note for what you observed. The seizure log and the dose log sit side by side on the timeline so patterns are easy to see.

Sharing the Record With Your Vet

The first 60 seconds of a seizure recheck are usually spent asking you to reconstruct the last three months from memory. Remewdy turns that reconstruction into a document.

What Your Sitter Needs During a Seizure

When you travel and a sitter watches your epileptic dog, the thing you cannot fit on a note on the fridge is what to do if a seizure happens at 23:00. A sitter share link in Remewdy carries the dose schedule, the rescue med instructions if your vet has prescribed one (for example rectal diazepam or intranasal midazolam), and a single place to log what happened.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Idiopathic epilepsy is estimated to affect roughly 0.5 to 5.7 percent of the general dog population, with higher rates in certain breeds such as Border Collies, Australian Shepherds, and Belgian Shepherds (ACVIM consensus statement, De Risio et al., BMC Veterinary Research, 2015 and follow-up work, 2016). It is the most common chronic neurological disease in dogs.

Yes. Phenobarbital works by maintaining a stable serum concentration. Dosing is typically every 12 hours, and veterinary neurologists generally recommend giving the dose within about an hour of the scheduled time. Large or repeated delays can drop serum levels into a range where breakthrough seizures become more likely. Blood levels are checked every 6 to 12 months to confirm the dose is still effective.

Call your veterinarian for exact instructions, but the general rule for phenobarbital or levetiracetam is: if you remember within a few hours of the scheduled time, give it as soon as possible and resume the normal schedule. Do not double up at the next scheduled dose unless your vet specifically tells you to. Log the missed dose in Remewdy so you and your vet can see the pattern at the next recheck.

Yes. Remewdy tracks any medication you add, including potassium bromide (KBr), phenobarbital, levetiracetam (Keppra), zonisamide, and rescue diazepam or midazolam. Each medication gets its own schedule, dose amount, and reminder stream. Potassium bromide has a long half-life of about 24 days, so consistency over weeks matters more than a single missed dose, but the full history is still useful at blood-level rechecks.

Yes. Premium includes a PDF care summary that prints every dose given, every missed dose, every seizure event you logged, weight trend, and your free-text notes. Email it to your vet before an appointment or hand it over on your phone in the exam room. Free users can export the raw data as CSV or JSON at any time.

Yes. Remewdy fires an iPhone notification at every scheduled dose time. For anticonvulsants, you can mark the reminder as Time Sensitive, which lets it break through Focus modes like Sleep and Do Not Disturb. If you dismiss the reminder without logging the dose, Remewdy re-alerts you a short time later so a tap in the kitchen does not become a missed dose.

Yes. The free tier covers one pet with full medication tracking, Time Sensitive reminders, seizure event logging, weight tracking, and CSV or JSON export. Premium adds unlimited pets, the PDF care summary, family sync across iPhones, and sitter sharing by browser link. Premium is $5.99 per month with a free trial, $39.99 per year, or $99.99 one-time Lifetime.

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Remewdy is a pet care organizer. It helps you follow your vet's instructions. It does not provide veterinary advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations. Always follow your vet's guidance.