Retinal detachment from high blood pressure

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Has anyone had vision return with treatment for high blood pressure?

My 17 year old cat has this condition. The vet said he may remain blind or vision could return, but it is unlikely.
 

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Hi 4horses 4horses , sorry to read that you are going through this.

The cat in my avatar had a retina detachment February 2016. On a morning I saw her walking straight into anything and her pupils were completely dilated, so I rushed her to the ophtalmologist vet who looked into her eyes and saw that both retinas had detached, likely for a blood pressure spike.
The vet told me that the condition was permanent, but to prevent further damages to other organs, she gave me a drug, Amlodipine, to be administered twice a day. This med was to avoid surges in BP. The vet herself gave my cat the first pill, and believe it or not, my cat re-gained her sight in less than an hour!
Her blindness returned several times, just like she re-gained her sight several times, in the next 12 months, and no vet (even other specialists that visited her in the following months) was able to understand this thing, because in their opinion the retinas couldn't re-attach on their own, but the tests done proved the contrary, the retina got re-attached, though in an uncomplete way.
I have plenty of videos that prove that she was seeing fine on more than one occasion, even when she was in complete unknown environments.

So, hang on, you might stumble in a miracle, just my cat did.
Fingers crossed 🤞
 

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I had a cat, Pangur Ban, who was with me for less than a year because of multiple serious conditions....adult street rescue. His BP spiked and he did go blind but because of everything else that was wrong, he did not survive much longer and so I can't say if his vision would have returned....hopefully it would have as Antonio65 Antonio65 describes.

Blind animals can function very well, especially if they go blind in the same environment in which they lived previously. I had a blind dog as well and the biggest help to her was never to move anything from its original place as she knew how to navigate from memory. If the blindness was very quick, as it was with my cat, there might be a longer adjustment period but it will still be possible for your cat to continue on. I do hope that the vision will return though.
 

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No.....in fact....wait for it....my father was born in Italy! So I am first generation American but don't speak Italian as that was the "secret" language that our parents used to keep us kids in the dark. :rolleyes: :p

Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we are
Alone together, scholar and cat
Each has his own work to do daily;
For you it is hunting, for me study.
Your shining eye watches the wall;
My feeble eye is fixed on a book.
You rejoice, when your claws entrap a mouse;
I rejoice when my mind fathoms a problem.
Pleased with his own art, neither hinders the other;
Thus we live ever without tedium and envy.


This is the shorter and more modern version about Pangur, who belonged to a monk and "worked" beside him all day. I enjoy looking for literary names which suit my pets....it is a big deal to name one for me!
 

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No.....in fact....wait for it....my father was born in Italy! So I am first generation American but don't speak Italian as that was the "secret" language that our parents used to keep us kids in the dark. :rolleyes: :p
Yes, I remember that, but thought that there might have been an Irish ancestor somewhere, or some Irish in the family.

I enjoy looking for literary names which suit my pets....it is a big deal to name one for me!
A cat's name is very important, it has be be chosen very carefully, because it'll stickwith the cat for life, though sometimes we call them with nicknames.
I'm not good at all at picking names for cat, I lways come up with silly or bad names, so my wife does the job for me. Unlike this last cat of ours, I chose her name long before I brought her home, when I noticed her feral with her mom and siblings.
 
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