I quit, I'm done

I am so sorry you are having this trouble with Dory. I have been following Damita's story and have felt so bad for her and you.

Our Aly also has herpes and his left eye looked very much like your Dory's. Aly's outbreak started over 2 months ago. We started out with BNP and ended up with Famvir during the 2 month period before our vet referred us to an opthamologist at the speciality center near here. The diagnosis was eodinophilic keratitis. We were prescribed prednisolone acetate, 1 drop 3 times daily then idoxuridine, 1 drop 3 times daily 5 minutes after the prednisolone acetate and 500 mg L-lysine with food twice daily. This is what the vet wrote: "Eosinophilic keratitis is an immune mediated condition. Because herpesvirus is often seen in association with this condition it is best to treat for both." He looks and feels so much better now. Our vet suspected it was eodinophilic keratitis when she saw what looked almost like little blisters on his eyeball when she pulled his eyelid up to see more of the eye. They took a scraping of his eye at the speciality vet center and the diagnosis was made.

Anyway, that may be something to consider. I'll be praying that all is settled soon in your household

Poor Dory. Sending "get well vibes"....ton's of them!!!!

Jessiecat....the "idoxuridine" is what my foster kittens are getting for eye drops. For the time being, Dory's bumped to 500 mgs Lysine 1x a day...terrmycin 2x a day & Baytril 1x a day. We'll see what the vet says tomorrow. I really hope he can see Dory as I'm leaving for vacation on Tuesday. Dory can't wait until Friday when I get back....& I won't bother with Dr. Stupid in town.

What do anitbiotics have to do with a viral outbreak? Is it to prevent secondary infections?

I hope all your kitties feel better soon This must be so hard on you, I would be really frustrated too. Your cat menagerie will be in our thoughts

Originally Posted by Momofmany

Poor Dorian!!

For L-Lysine, a daily maintenance dose is 500 mg per day and during flare ups, you double it. 150mg is not enough for him. This is for a normal sized adult cat.

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It's a little more expensive, but I have my local health food store order me a massive quantity of 500mg capsules.

I give each kitty one cap a day in their wet food, two caps if someone is sneezing or they've been stressed. Just a few days without and they're sneezing up a storm, runny eyes, the whole nine yards

Vibes for poor Dorky, and for you! I know it feels so awful when your babies suffer

Just throw in my two cents worth after struggling with eye issues with Rambo. If you have a health food store around...you could try come colloidal silver. Just put a drop in the eye...kills bacteria in the eye and inhibits viral replication. I found a great change in it.

Also if he's rubbing at it or worrying at it...the vet gave me some valium to making him a little dopey. I would give him the valium and as he was getting sleepy i would dose up the eye with gunk and he would be too sleepy to rub at it. When he woke up a few hours later it always looked much better. he preferred a quiet, cool and dark place whenever his eye looked like that!


good luck...healing vibes!

Took Dorky to Dr. Stupid as I cannot get in to see either sane vet. He had to be seen & there is no way I can get him anyplace tomorrow around my vacation, I already promised to transport dogs & have to leave at like 8 am, maybe.

Anyways, Dr. Stupid said it looks OK. No scratch, nothing. Said I did the right thing by treating him with something, that the terramycin helped. (duh ) Gave me Neomycin eye drops with a steroid in it. I'm pretty sure that was a waste of $18....I could've just asked for the drops & skipped the visit. I might take him to the sane vet when I get back from vacation....we will see how his eye looks then.

I was wondering about Figaro. ....

Figgy isn't here, he's with his new meowmy. Still no updates from him, either. But, no news is good news.

Dory's eye is open now, still weepy & red & awful looking. But he isn't scratching & its open...

aww if anyone can get his eye better its you.

Well. Dory's on day 4 of the eye meds & absolutely NO IMPROVEMENT! I think I'm gonna give the meds till Monday, but will have to make vet appts. with the sane vet for Monday tomorrow. The P Boys aren't any better, either!