When I post this, she was mouth breathing for a few minutes, then she remains okay, and I put her back to my bed. Sometimes later, she passed away. I have rabbits for 21 years, when it comes to the above situation, it's hard to tell which is which:
1) if she's suffering from gabapentin withdraw, there is very little I need to do. I just need to make sure she has some food and sub-q and get the drug off her system
2) if she' dying, in which, we know now she was, at that stage, I hardly think there is anything any vet can do. Knowing what we know now, even her neck is non responsive when I try to syringe feed her. I did give her 1 more sub-Q at 7 am yesterday morning. She passed away a few hr. later.
Among all my rabbits, she's my longest companion in this home, 12 yr. and 7 mth., and I just couldn't figure out what is her cause of death.
On last Fri. at 3 pm, we visit the vet, she's in good spirit and the vet took her blood for her 2nd blood test. From Fri. to Sun. night when this happens, there are only 3 drugs in her system
Gabapentin
Enrofluxin
Benepac
The enrofluxin did cause some soft poos, but she had worse soft poos in the past, that in itself can't cause death. Benepac is a probitics
as to food, it's just water and hand feed hay.
So it has to be gabapentin that causes this. Even from that PDF file, it didn't say gabapentin can cause death. So I am open to suggestion just for my piece of mind. One loose guess would be the gabapentin could relax the heart too much, and at her age, it slow down the heart too much. In summary, since the 2nd or 3rd syringe feed of the gabapentin, she's in that dooze off stage, totally not moving. And I follow the vet's instruction on the dosage
and the thing is, it works very well on the first administration of gabapentin on Fri. night, as she has so much more bunny poos on Sat. morning, I was really happy