Hi all,
I post here to seek help for our Persian Himalayan cat baby. She is around 1.5 years old and started having problem with one of her eyes around 9 months ago. We took her to the vet (3 different) numerous times. At first the vet said that there is indolent or non-healing corneal ulcer and feline herpes virus. She was also scratching her eye. He prescribed some medicine but that didnt seem to help immediately and we went to see him again few weeks later. Her eye continued to stay closed most of the time. At this visit the doctor said that if medication doesnt help she would need to have eye surgery. We went to a diffrent vet clinic and they did aggresive scraping of her cornea and placed contact lens to accelerate healing. After about 2 months and seeing 3 different vets things seem to improve.
Fast forward to know and the problem seems to come back and go away all the time. She can be fine for 2 weeks and then out of no where the problem comes back and she has her eye closed for a few days. We give her eye drops and after few days she is back to normal but the cycle repeats. We took her to 3rd vet and he doesnt have any solution. Each vet just prescribes different medication and says that previous vet recommended incorrect medicine.
I'm posting here hoping to find cat owners that might have seen this kind of problem and can offer some advice on how we can help our baby. Thanks in advance!
I post here to seek help for our Persian Himalayan cat baby. She is around 1.5 years old and started having problem with one of her eyes around 9 months ago. We took her to the vet (3 different) numerous times. At first the vet said that there is indolent or non-healing corneal ulcer and feline herpes virus. She was also scratching her eye. He prescribed some medicine but that didnt seem to help immediately and we went to see him again few weeks later. Her eye continued to stay closed most of the time. At this visit the doctor said that if medication doesnt help she would need to have eye surgery. We went to a diffrent vet clinic and they did aggresive scraping of her cornea and placed contact lens to accelerate healing. After about 2 months and seeing 3 different vets things seem to improve.
Fast forward to know and the problem seems to come back and go away all the time. She can be fine for 2 weeks and then out of no where the problem comes back and she has her eye closed for a few days. We give her eye drops and after few days she is back to normal but the cycle repeats. We took her to 3rd vet and he doesnt have any solution. Each vet just prescribes different medication and says that previous vet recommended incorrect medicine.
I'm posting here hoping to find cat owners that might have seen this kind of problem and can offer some advice on how we can help our baby. Thanks in advance!