I just wanted to worry and write everything down without worrying DP so thought I'd come where people understood!
Ashi has spent the day refusing to let us touch him, biting things in his cage (though not attacking, just chewing boxes and unchewable things, like his porcelain food bowl) and frantically scrabbling around with no real purpose.
DP managed to pick him up earlier and he just whined until he was put back in his cage about 30 seconds later. He's clearly not a happy boy today :( I think it's a type of seizure as he just seems really confused and defensive though I wouldn't know what to call it. He's had them a few times but never one all day. The worst was when he spent an evening screaming at every sound, we honestly thought we'd be taking him on a one-way trip to the vet the next day, that was in January and was his last big growth spurt IIRC.
He's had at least one tonic-clonic seizure a day this week which has coincided with a growth spurt. He's not had many since his last growth spurt and they seemed to be evening out, so this week has been a bit rubbish for him. I'm worried that he'll be like it still tomorrow and if he is, what then? But I thought that last time and within a few days of cuddles and bribery he was back to his usual happy, sleepy self.
He has been doing so well and I think this may be a huge setback. He's been free ranging most mornings for an hour at a time which he never would have been able to do before as he was always too tired. He's been much more lively in general really.
I'm debating getting him onto drugs to stop the seizures but will they be worth it for the sake of a week every couple of months where he has them? And the other runt owner I know said that her older girl stopped having them at 5 months, and Ashi is now 5 months, so maybe he'll outgrow them soon? We couldn't really get him onto them when he was younger as he was so bloody small the vet was worried about overdosing him and at the time we thought that it might be something to do with his liver so we didn't want to use them just in case, but he's now a decent size and we know that it's not liver-related so it wouldn't be as much of an issue (between 440g and 450g atm).
And it puts a huge damper on the idea of introducing him to his two (spayed) big sisters who we eventually want to get him in with when our rescue passes on (she's old, bless her, she still doesn't believe it though 
). We thought that as the seizures had evened out we could start introducing him and hopefully they won't do a Haku on us, the git still gets aggressive whenever he even sees Ashi, but that looks like it won't be able to happen unless he grows out of the seizures.
Bloody frustrating. Every time we make good progress with him something like this happens again and we're left wondering if this is it or if it'll blow over.
It's amazing how such small creatures can worry you so much!