Hello everyone - love the forum!
I'd like to get a second opinion about the eye of our cat; we have been to the Vet twice and while they said this will clear up on its own, her eye seems to be getting worse rather than better. I have attached a couple of photos, she is gorgeous of course but the eye is looking pretty bad - you have been warned!
She is a stay-inside cat so I don't think it's caused by something outside the house, the closest she gets to the great outdoors these days is a second-story balcony. We have one other cat, who may be the cause as they are not on friendly terms (after 10 years - you'd think they would learn to get along!)
Anyway the vet has prescribed two sets of medication now, which she has asked us to apply five minutes apart. We have done this for over a week and as I said it seems to not be improving. The last vet gave us a similar regime and it didn't work then either. The vet said there was a blister and did a tear test & some other procedures last time to make sure they were applying the right stuff but we're not sure...
Right now her prescribed medication is is "Neomycin & Polymyxin B Sulfates and Bacitracin Zinc Ophthalmic Ointment USP" which she had been on the first time. After five minutes we have to put a drop of "Cyctosporine" (sp) which seems to be pretty serious stuff as the humans have to put on gloves before applying it?? The label for this has worn down too so I don't have more details on that second one.
https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/2sZXgqgiDTh43V
https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/2sDHq6QXyyd1zg
Anyway my questions to this forum:
1) Have any of you had a similar prescription regime from the vet which has *worked* - are we just being impatient? (she has had this now for >6 weeks which we don't think is very fair)
2) Any idea what the problem with her eye actually is? Has anyone else had a cat with this & if so, what was the outcome / how long to heal?
Many thanks for any & all help
Artful
I'd like to get a second opinion about the eye of our cat; we have been to the Vet twice and while they said this will clear up on its own, her eye seems to be getting worse rather than better. I have attached a couple of photos, she is gorgeous of course but the eye is looking pretty bad - you have been warned!
She is a stay-inside cat so I don't think it's caused by something outside the house, the closest she gets to the great outdoors these days is a second-story balcony. We have one other cat, who may be the cause as they are not on friendly terms (after 10 years - you'd think they would learn to get along!)
Anyway the vet has prescribed two sets of medication now, which she has asked us to apply five minutes apart. We have done this for over a week and as I said it seems to not be improving. The last vet gave us a similar regime and it didn't work then either. The vet said there was a blister and did a tear test & some other procedures last time to make sure they were applying the right stuff but we're not sure...
Right now her prescribed medication is is "Neomycin & Polymyxin B Sulfates and Bacitracin Zinc Ophthalmic Ointment USP" which she had been on the first time. After five minutes we have to put a drop of "Cyctosporine" (sp) which seems to be pretty serious stuff as the humans have to put on gloves before applying it?? The label for this has worn down too so I don't have more details on that second one.
https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/2sZXgqgiDTh43V
https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/2sDHq6QXyyd1zg
Anyway my questions to this forum:
1) Have any of you had a similar prescription regime from the vet which has *worked* - are we just being impatient? (she has had this now for >6 weeks which we don't think is very fair)
2) Any idea what the problem with her eye actually is? Has anyone else had a cat with this & if so, what was the outcome / how long to heal?
Many thanks for any & all help
Artful
). You're lucky because there is a great vet eye specialist in your area: 
