Robin very ill help

[Margret]

I don't know; I have no direct experience with feline herpes.  I do know that grain, any grain, is not good for cats.  And, as a diabetic, I know that it can be extremely difficult to give grains up, even for a human who chooses to do so, and understands exactly why it's a good idea.  I tend to go with the rule of thumb that if it's bad for one's health it's bad for all of one's health, including areas where no link to bad health has yet been established.

It sounds to me like Robin has an addiction problem with this cat food.  What to do about it, I don't know.

Margret

 

[NewYork1303]

I'm unsure. My cat has the virus, but his eyes weep all of the time because of surgery that was done to remove part of both of his eyes. He has no corn gluten in his diet, but it still is worse sometimes and better others.

 

[misterwhiskers]

Another update. Vet has doubled the famciclovir, eye still damp, but overall a real improvement! The specialist (different vet, which I didn't care for, Id prefer him to see the same vet but some kind of emergency came up...as long as he's seen by an opthomologist, right?) pretty much just did an in-and-out--which must be good, right? meaning Robin must be healthy right?--checked his eyeball pressure, doubled the dose of antiviral. Hoping as his eye heals that the dampness just will one day simply stop! The eye really is a LOT better. And no more weird episodes of mysterious illness, thank goodness. And he was such a good traveler!! Was a 3 hour round trip, he slept most of the way and as usual charmed the heck out of the staff there, who really are nice.. Onward and upward, as they say!!

 

[walkingrock]

One of my kitties has chronic herpes. He's on long-term Famciclovir. I've found it to least expensive at Sam's Club pharmacy. His tear ducts are scarred shut, so he always has leaky eyes, the color of the drainage changes if we miss his medicine dose a time or two.

 

[misterwhiskers]

One of my kitties has chronic herpes. He's on long-term Famciclovir. I've found it to least expensive at Sam's Club pharmacy. His tear ducts are scarred shut, so he always has leaky eyes, the color of the drainage changes if we miss his medicine dose a time or two.

Both specialists (same clinic) have him on decreasing amounts of the antiviral; the one said his ducts look ok on the surface, however, even at the last visit, the dye did not drain down his nose out of the affected eye. Hopefully the duct is not damaged so much that it can't bounce back some. I was also told that the tissue that you see when you pull the lower eyelid down looked better....no vet ever said it didn't look right, although obviously I they mentioned conjuncivitis. Last vet told me that tissue wasn't as loose and was adhering better. Did your cat have this issue? Not even sure what she meant by that, like I said, no other vet ever mentioned anything if that sort before.

 

[walkingrock]

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One of my kitties has chronic herpes. He's on long-term Famciclovir. I've found it to least expensive at Sam's Club pharmacy. His tear ducts are scarred shut, so he always has leaky eyes, the color of the drainage changes if we miss his medicine dose a time or two.

Both specialists (same clinic) have him on decreasing amounts of the antiviral; the one said his ducts look ok on the surface, however, even at the last visit, the dye did not drain down his nose out of the affected eye. Hopefully the duct is not damaged so much that it can't bounce back some. I was also told that the tissue that you see when you pull the lower eyelid down looked better....no vet ever said it didn't look right, although obviously I they mentioned conjuncivitis. Last vet told me that tissue wasn't as loose and was adhering better. Did your cat have this issue? Not even sure what she meant by that, like I said, no other vet ever mentioned anything if that sort before.

No, I didn't have that issue. He was already a chronic herpes when I adopted him, had been on medication for 2 years at some point before I adopted him, wasn't on meds when I adopted him. Only symptoms ugly eye drainage, and some nose congestion.