Re: Bandy is going blind

[catatonya]

Kerry,

 

You may remember me writing about my vet taking my cats' blood pressure now?  Well she put 2 of them on blood pressure medication and she told me Popeye was going blind due to this.  Popeye is my cat who REFUSES to be pilled.

 

I decided I'd never heard of such a thing and after fighting over the medicine for a while I let it go.   Well  about a month ago I noticed he was losing his sight.

 

I took him into the vet ( not realizing that's what was going on)  and they said his blood pressure was through the roof and his eyes were inflamed from that.

 

We put him back on the medication ( with a liquid in wet food) and he is better again.

 

Maybe you could see if your vet knows about this?  My vet I'm sure would be glad to speak to her if she hasn't heard of it.  They are on norvasc, a human blood pressure medication.

 

When I posted this before no one acted like their vets were checking blood pressures, so maybe it's something new?

 

tonya

Kerry Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 

I took Bandy to an eye specialist in Dallas on Fri...as his sight has just been getting worse in the last week or so...They changed his meds and increased them to 4x a day..also put him on zithromax for 5 days...he goes back in 2 weeks for a re-check..The doctor did say that we might get some of his vision back, but I don't think he was really that hopeful...I can get him to play with his string, but I don't know if he sees the shadow or what...I am just glad he will do that...I am going to keep everything the same for him so he won't have any trouble finding anything...

Michelle, if you see this let me know if you have any more info on the anterior uveitis..the doctor did say, that he might have posterior, too...He said there was so much inflammation in there, he couldn't really tell...

Please pray for Bandy everyone...

Kerry and Bandy

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