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Hello everyone.
This is going to be a bit of a long story, but please stick with it, we are really at the end of our rope here and we don't know what to do next.
About 3 months ago a sweet little cat wondered up to our driveway while I was feeding the other strays in my neighborhood, he was VERY sweet and loving, but looked terrible so my wife and I decided to get him into a carrier and take him to our vet to see if anything could be done. I've attached some pics of him right before we got him in the cage, and when he was laying in the cage at the vet.
The vet did a lot of tests, and found that he did not have any serious diseases, so we started him on treatment for his upper respiratory infection and tons of rodent ulcers, also some flea drops and eye drops for his conjunctivitis. We have four cats already, but we have a finished basement, so we're keeping Theo (the cats name) in the basement until he heals up and we can get him fixed.
His face healed up pretty fast, by May all of his hair had grown back, he had gained 3 lbs. (6lbs - 9lbs), his face wounds had healed up, he was doing really great. At this time he was on 4 types of medication. I don't know off the top of my head what they are, but I can check the bottles at when I get home. He had some milky stuff he had to drink, and three types of pills. This first round was for a month, and he was totally healed up besides some large blisters on his upper lip. After his medication was done, we took him back to the vet and she prescribed him another 2 weeks of medication to try and get rid of the blisters on his lip. During this month and a half period, he would periodically flare up with a red rash between his right eye and his ear. You could tell he was scratching up there, because he'd sometimes bleed. He was also having issues with tears coming out of his eye that appeared to be burning or irritating his face, because the area around his tear duct down to his lip would get red.
Eventually, last Wednesday, his final one month round of treatments were done. This round did not include the milky stuff, and my vet had me ween him off of one of the three pills in the first two weeks. Last Wednesday was his last day of meds, and he looked great. The only thing I could find was a tiny little scar on his lip from where the blister was, but it was not red or swollen. I have also included a picture of him that I took this past weekend.
Now, during this time of healing, at some point we asked our vet if he was contagious, and would it be OK to start bringing him upstairs to start introducing him to our other cats. She said it would be fine, so we've been bringing him up for an hour or two at a time, just to get everyone used to each other. Last night he was laying on the couch with us and suddenly he had like 3 or 4 good sneezes, and then all of the sudden his right eye started watering like crazy and he was twitching out and scratching his eye uncontrollably. It really reminded me of whenever my sinuses are acting up and my eye starts to water. We turned the light on and realized that his eye was already super red! I gave him some eye drops, and we kind of held on to him so he couldn't dig his claws into his face, and we helped him gently scratch it. We have a little cone for him too and we put it on him last night, as much as I absolutely hate to do that (nothing worse than having an itch you can't scratch) we felt like it was all we could do to keep him from hurting himself.
I checked on him this morning and his eye is still a bit red, but looking much better already.
What do you guys think might be going on? I'm wondering if he's got some sinus issues, and I'm really confused as to why his tears seem to be burning him. We're going to take him to the vet again on Friday, but right now I just want some peace of mind, or some hints or tips about what might be going on with our sweet little guy.
Thanks to anyone who read this far,
-Matt.
This is going to be a bit of a long story, but please stick with it, we are really at the end of our rope here and we don't know what to do next.
About 3 months ago a sweet little cat wondered up to our driveway while I was feeding the other strays in my neighborhood, he was VERY sweet and loving, but looked terrible so my wife and I decided to get him into a carrier and take him to our vet to see if anything could be done. I've attached some pics of him right before we got him in the cage, and when he was laying in the cage at the vet.
The vet did a lot of tests, and found that he did not have any serious diseases, so we started him on treatment for his upper respiratory infection and tons of rodent ulcers, also some flea drops and eye drops for his conjunctivitis. We have four cats already, but we have a finished basement, so we're keeping Theo (the cats name) in the basement until he heals up and we can get him fixed.
His face healed up pretty fast, by May all of his hair had grown back, he had gained 3 lbs. (6lbs - 9lbs), his face wounds had healed up, he was doing really great. At this time he was on 4 types of medication. I don't know off the top of my head what they are, but I can check the bottles at when I get home. He had some milky stuff he had to drink, and three types of pills. This first round was for a month, and he was totally healed up besides some large blisters on his upper lip. After his medication was done, we took him back to the vet and she prescribed him another 2 weeks of medication to try and get rid of the blisters on his lip. During this month and a half period, he would periodically flare up with a red rash between his right eye and his ear. You could tell he was scratching up there, because he'd sometimes bleed. He was also having issues with tears coming out of his eye that appeared to be burning or irritating his face, because the area around his tear duct down to his lip would get red.
Eventually, last Wednesday, his final one month round of treatments were done. This round did not include the milky stuff, and my vet had me ween him off of one of the three pills in the first two weeks. Last Wednesday was his last day of meds, and he looked great. The only thing I could find was a tiny little scar on his lip from where the blister was, but it was not red or swollen. I have also included a picture of him that I took this past weekend.
Now, during this time of healing, at some point we asked our vet if he was contagious, and would it be OK to start bringing him upstairs to start introducing him to our other cats. She said it would be fine, so we've been bringing him up for an hour or two at a time, just to get everyone used to each other. Last night he was laying on the couch with us and suddenly he had like 3 or 4 good sneezes, and then all of the sudden his right eye started watering like crazy and he was twitching out and scratching his eye uncontrollably. It really reminded me of whenever my sinuses are acting up and my eye starts to water. We turned the light on and realized that his eye was already super red! I gave him some eye drops, and we kind of held on to him so he couldn't dig his claws into his face, and we helped him gently scratch it. We have a little cone for him too and we put it on him last night, as much as I absolutely hate to do that (nothing worse than having an itch you can't scratch) we felt like it was all we could do to keep him from hurting himself.
I checked on him this morning and his eye is still a bit red, but looking much better already.
What do you guys think might be going on? I'm wondering if he's got some sinus issues, and I'm really confused as to why his tears seem to be burning him. We're going to take him to the vet again on Friday, but right now I just want some peace of mind, or some hints or tips about what might be going on with our sweet little guy.
Thanks to anyone who read this far,
-Matt.
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