Robin very ill help

Rushing him to ER vet. Came home n he wasn't responsive one eyelids bigger than other worried vets missed massive infection bc that eye still bad after treatment
Meant pupil right pupil seems unresponsive I mean left
Right eye weeping red ooze

Please pray he is bad.
Ate a little but sits with closed eyes howled putting into carrier plz any ideas

Sugar water helped but he was fine 12 hours ago he acts drugged

You are doing the right thing rushing him to the vet. Thats where he needs to be. Hoping for the best ....,

He's stable. Dehydrated. Vet says it's possible its toxoplasmosis

Vets say u can give cats pedialite to replenish hydration. U r in my thoughts.

It's good he is stable. Fingers crossed!!

Thank you. He's in the carrier. So many meds this time. I do think toxoplasmosis fits the symptoms. Fiv and leukemia test negative. Clinamycin, a steroid eye drop, and erythromycin eye ointment on the menu. $600 bill. Ugg

HI!  I think I might have a remedy for your kitty.  I used colloidal silver on one of my cats.  Even though it was his ear, it still healed. His ear was having a bloody discharge and then developed a buldge which really had me very worried.  So, I took the advice of a friend of mine, and he gave me some colloidal silver he had prepared (9ppm strength).  He said just spray it in his ear about three times a day, and it should heal.  I was not sure what to think about all of that, but I figured, it would not hurt to try it.  So I did.  I was so surprised!  My kitty's ear healed in about a week!  

You can find it in health food stores, but it can be expensive.  But I say, I would rather spend about $25 on colloidal silver, then spend $500 at the vet.

I hope he's ok!

Back to the vet. He threw up about a cup of mucus. Vet thinks antibiotic reaction .

Lots of guessing right now. They want to give him a shot and a shot for nausea.

What was the mucus?? Vet said his lungs and tummy were good. Why didn't they give him anti nausea meds when he was there?

misterwhiskers said:

Back to the vet. He threw up about a cup of mucus. Vet thinks antibiotic reaction .

Lots of guessing right now. They want to give him a shot and a shot for nausea.

What was the mucus?? Vet said his lungs and tummy were good. Why didn't they give him anti nausea meds when he was there?

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All good questions that you should ask your vet!

I will. Bringing a knowledgable friend (she's bringing us there).

What confounds me is he looked good 24 hours ago and got so terribly ill just in the 8 hours I was at work.

Poor guy. His ears are frigid, and I can tell it hurts him to lay down with his head down, like he's got a headache. He's exhausted and so am I. I can't help but wonder if my bronchitis and sinusitis is related to his issues...happened the same time.

Don't have much to add...I just hope you both feel better soon. Try to take care of yourself!

I am so sorry to hear this! I hope you and Robin both feel better soon.

The mucous is likely a response to inflammation. Edwina (our snowshoe) had a lot of mucous after her plant-eating incident in December. First she vomited it, then it just sort of, um, came out of her butt.

Fingers crossed that the medicines help Robin soon!

Update: they're keeping him overnight. He got a shot of an antibiotic, an anti nausea, and his steroid eye drops came through. So hard to find a local pharmacy that had it. Walmart said "we don't have it and even if we did, it's $187." Rite Aid, on the other hand, said " we have it but we're so sorry it'll b $55." Then I go to pay for it and it rung up-$19.99. Needless to say they are my forever pharmacy lol.

He's very sick, vet believes he's had toxo his whole life and that's what the funny eye since Dec was. Possibly in conjunction with herpes.

Lord, I can't think of the possibility of losing Robin. Three weeks worth of antibiotics years ago would have avoided all this. People, never dismiss toxoplasmosis; my vet says it hides, like shingles, and can flare under stress. I never knew that!!!

Not something you hear a lot about: long term toxoplasmosis; vet thinks he may need an opthomologist. Any way to avoid this? My sister can't pay another $600 vet fee, (she will anyway can you believe that?) and my next pay wouldn't pay it all.

Time for me to look at some of these places that can help with vet bills. His vet bills--no specialist--has come to $1300 since January. If I could work 80 hours a week I would. I pray I don't have to put him to sleep bc his vet bill is more than I can pay. My sister used her money towards new tires to pay for Robin and she's willing to pay more. I'm crying; I want my cat healthy but I want my sister safe too!! She's putting her life on the line for my cat and she deserves a medal and a miracle. To hear cats can recover would be a miracle.

I'm sorry I can't offer any help with your situation, but check out the pinned thread at the top of the forum on how to afford a vet.  Have you tried a second opinion on this diagnosis and treatment?  What does the vet recommend if you don't go to the specialist?

Cats can recover!  Mine did.

This is a long story, but please hear me out.

My cat got toxoplasmosis and almost died from it (she has a compromised immune system).  When she finally got over it, her pupils still looked very strange, large with what looked like bits of her pupil peeling off and floating around in her eye.  When we finally picked her up from her long vet stay, she seemed to be seeing okay, but the vet said that it wouldn't be long before she went blind.

We also couldn't afford an opthomologist, and with her bad immune system, sometimes going to the vet does more harm than good.  She appeared to be seeing okay at the moment, so we decided to wait and see.  She seemed to get better and better, but her pupils never got completely healed.

A couple years later,  a family member she was close to passed away, and the stress from that really got to her.  We were taking her to the vet monthly to treat abcesses in her anal sacks.  The vet finally told me to give her metamucil and see if that helped.

She didn't like the metamucil very well, and my mom told me to try putting toasted wheat germ in her food (it's in the breakfast isle in my grocery store).

I tried the wheat germ, and not only did it totally stop the abcesses, but her eyes started to improve!  The pupils are no longer dialated, the floaters or whatever they were are nearly gone!  It has been over seven years since toxoplasmosis almost killed her, and she still has her sight and seems healthier than ever.

I think the wheat germ helped her a lot all the way around with her bad immunity, the vitamin E, the oils and fiber.

I'm not saying that this will work for your cat, I'm not even 100% sure that the wheat germ is what did it for mine, but it really seems to help her, and as I said, toxoplasmosis almost killed her and she has had no surgery, has not seen a specialist of any kind, has not lost her sight, and is very, very healthy.

It took some fiddling with the right amount of wheat germ because too much made my other cat have gas (I had to put it in all the food because sometimes they get in a snit and steal from eachother's bowls), but I ended up using 5/8 teaspoon in a 3 oz can I devide between the two of them, and I feed this to them twice a day.

I hope this helps!  Your cat shouldn't have to go through that, and neither should you or your sister.  Keep us posted!

Hi, I'm in a 5 vet town and Robin has seen 4 of them; this latest vet is the only one who came up with the toxo possibility, every other one said "herpes and bacterial due to herpes but get used to your cats eye staying drippy". I have had cats before with herpes thoigh and this presentation just seemed off to me. However I'm not a vet so although I asked all kinds of questions I took their word for it. From what I'm reading if it's toxoplasmosis, it's a bit unusual to hang around so long and yes he probably does have herpes too and I think the two infections just kind of met up finally.

As for alternatives, basically what I'm being told (by this vet) is "there are no alternatives you need to see the specialist" if this doesn't work primarily bc he would need scans done in machines none of the local vets have access to. Which is a little weird because nothing I'm seeing in literature says toxoplasmosis requires a specialist. I might be Mis-relating what the vet said, though. She might mean that if a full course of clindamycin doesn't work then to see a specialist. (I had been awake almost 30 hour when all this stuff happened, and just getting over both stomach flu and bronchitis so needless to say it was a struggle to stay focused.)

But I am hopeful current treatment will help. He couldn't tolerate his first clindamycin pill and wound up very ill at the vet, where they gave him an antibiotic shot, a shot for nausea, and the steroid drops as well as erythromycin ointment for the eye--and the vet office says he is doing much better!! [emoji]128077[/emoji] Already!!

It's going to be a long process to get him 100% back on his feet I know, though, I'm scared because I'm not a vet but hopeful because other cat owners have managed to get their furkids better and if they can do it, by God so can I.

Iam so glad to hear Robin's doing better, misterwhiskers ! Here's hoping for continued improvements and recovery. We're rooting for him!

Thank you! I hope somehow his tough case is able to help another members cat someday. So good to have the ability to share experiences here!!