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Originally Posted by jeane  Took morgan to the vet today and he has dry eye in right eye and he has glaucoma in both eyes// he has ointment for the dry eye and eye drops for the glaucoma . Has anyone else had experience with this ? I am so upset/ I don't want him to go blind// I am just sick about it |
I am very sorry to read about Morgan's glaucoma. Two is very young. I do have a dog (toy poodle, not a yorkie) that has lost both eyes to glaucoma. Did you see an eye specialist or your regular vet? Did they check the pressure in the eyes, and if so, do you know what the reading was? I'm not questioning your vet but it just seems like two is very young to have glaucoma in both eyes. Also, I don't think it is very common to have glaucoma hit both eyes at once, although I'm sure it happens.
There are a lot of different medications that can be used to try to save Morgan's vision for a while, but generally glaucoma eventually wins. And chasing the pressure readings can be very expensive and time consuming. Glaucoma hit my dog's first eye when she was 12. By the time we realized what was going on, her pressure was very high, she was in a lot of pain and had already lost the vision in that eye anyway. She had enucleation surgery (her whole eyeball was removed) the day after she was diagnosed. We immediately started treating her other eye for glaucoma even though her pressure was still good. She did fine for about nine months and then the pressures started rising. The eye specialist kept adding more and more drops, and pretty soon we were using four different types of drops 3 to 4 times daily, and the pressures just kept getting higher. When I knew the pressure was high enough to be painful, we had a procedure done on the eye to kill all the fluid producing cells. It's called chemical ablation. Unfortunately the procedure kills all cells, so now she's blind, but does still have her eye. Blind dogs do pretty good though. She's been blind about a year now and has made a good adjustment.
Not the best news in my post, but I'm still hoping the vet made a mistake and your very young dog does not have glaucoma! Paws crossed!
Diana and the Scoobster