My six year old cat got brown spots on his eye about a month ago. They haven't grown or gotten darker since. He shows no signs of vision issues. He eats and acts normally. Please advise!
HiyaHi My Kids Mama, Just checking in case you are still active on the forum as I am dealing with the same issue you had. My cat is only 4 and diagnosed with iris melanosis with the initial freckles advancing to be closer to her iris and dark, yet also still flat. The vet opthalmologist wants to be pro active and remove the eye and has encouraged that, although said I could keep monitoring as an alternative. A very reputable and experienced opthamologist surgeon friend looked at my vet's discharge notes and strongly believes there is not enough information pointing to the need to take her eye and also not enough research on the condition in cats to warrant it. In fact he is concerned that if it is malignant, which would not be found out until after the enucleation, the removal might actually cause a faster spread, as in humans it goes up from 1% to 8% chance of spread much sooner after it. My question is what would you do in this situation and how often did you monitor your cat's eye at checkups? Our vet is assuming my cat will develop glaucoma, yet I am reading that doesn't always happen as well. Of course we would have obvious reason to do an enucleation then. I'm glad for you that your kitty stayed fine and that indeed his eye remained healthy enough, despite eventually looking mostly black, which is what ours looks like it will eventually do. I am so interested in finding others have experienced the same and had this concern.