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    "a Touch Of Glaucoma" ?

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    fsugrad - We have a greyhound with Glaucoma. The eyeball was enlarged with build up pressure. Those might not be the correct terms.

     

    I did a lot of research to check this process out before letting the Dr do it. The Dr injected the eyeball to kill off the cells that produced the intraocular fluid. They eye looks different and she has no vision in that eye. The pressure is down and we are on hold. The next option is to remove the eyeball itself.

     

    Hugs to Toby

    Tallgreydogmom,

    So did you try the eyedrop meds but they either didn't work or stopped working on your hound? Is that why you had to go the surgical route? Just wondering. Thanks, Rita

    "a Touch Of Glaucoma" ?

    in Health and Medical discussion

    Posted

    Hi Lynne,

    Did you get Swiftie's eye checked out yesterday? What did they find?

    Toby is on FOUR prescription eyedrops right now. I have to keep referring to the chart they gave me to make sure I'm dosing him properly, because it's pretty complicated! But his eye looks better after being on the drops for just one day. He has a re-check at the vet school tomorrow. And they did tell me the cloudy blue cast in his eye should resolve as the glaucoma is brought in check. Even the blue-ness looks better after just one day.

    "a Touch Of Glaucoma" ?

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    We are still at the vet school, but glaucoma was confirmed in Toby's right eye. When I brought him in, his eye pressure was 40 (which they said is high enough to cause migraine like pain in humans) so they gave him emergency eye drops to relieve pressure asap. In about a half hour, his eye pressure went down from 40 to 15. They also looked at his eye with a special lens where they had to gel his eye to take a look at the areas in the eye where the fluid is supposed to drain from, to see if there are obstructions. We starting him on a couple diff types of eye drops, both in the bad eye and in the good eye as a precaution. Hopefully we can manage this well this way. He doesn't appear to have lost any significant amount of sight in the eye, so that is good news.

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    "a Touch Of Glaucoma" ?

    in Health and Medical discussion

    Posted · Edited by fsugrad

    Wow, Lynne, what perfect timing! I was just about to post about this same topic.

    Over the last week or so I noticed that one of Toby's eye's has a cloudy blue cast to it, depending on the angle you look at him from. Toby will be 10 in April.

    And in the last couple of days, he was squinting/shutting that eye, as if it were irritated.

    I took him to our vet today and she said that he has no lesions on his cornea, etc. but she believes he may have glaucoma. She said she thinks it's glaucoma but not cataracts.

    She recommended Toby get seen by the ophthalmologists at the UF vet school so Toby and I have an appointment there tomorrow morning at 8:00.

    I will let you know what I find out.


    thank you. we're going to get her back to the vet (a different one that we've seen before) this week to see if we can learn more.

    Suggestion, make sure you take her to a vet who has specialty training in ophthalmology. That way you are not wasting your money. Our vet said she has some basic ways and tools for testing for glaucoma but a definitive diagnosis and treatment should be made by a veterinary eye specialist.

    Good Quality Mid-Range Food?

    in Food and dietary discussion

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    We love the 4Health brand dog food sold at Tractor Supply. Read the label--it's high quality stuff at a very reasonable price.

    Our greyhound group's hounds all get this food.

    When we adopted Dakota, it was what he had been eating. After speaking to others in my group about it, we switched Toby over to it, as well. (We feed the salmon and potato).

    Toby used to be on science diet Sensitive Stomach and he has done so much better on 4Health--and the price can't be beat, either.

    My Robin--Gone 1 Year Today

    in Remembrance

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    Today, I remember my beautiful Robin, who passed away one year ago today. Our hearts are still broken that we had to say goodbye to him at only 7 years of age. We absolutely adored him, and are so grateful to have had him in our lives. We will love and miss him forever. Rest well, handsome boy.

     

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