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Well her right eye is fine but her left eye turned cloudy. We're now using the medication in that eye, but she refuses to take any more of that liquid antibiotic. She's starting to hide, shows fear of my husband as he restrains for her me, and when forced on her, she throws up the medication. She gags on it and we're afraid we'll get it in one of her lungs. She starts to fight like a hellcat to get away as soon as she's aware of what we're doing.
We're in the process of getting ready to spend a few days at the nearby lake. Callie sees the Vet again on Friday.
All this forcing medication on her is making her fearful, suspicious and has her hiding a good part of the time. This is not good. It's changing her happy personality to one of fearful suspicion.
When we had Nimbus on the liquid antibiotic, he only had to take about half a tiny dropper of it per dose, so I took a small spoonful of canned food and mixed it in real good and he ate that while I watched. When he finished it I would give him the rest of his meal. I was so glad this worked, because trying to restrain and dose him with the medicine was horribly traumatic! But somehow he had no problem with being restrained for his eye ointment. Stuff in the eyes, fine...but stay away from his mouth!
He is a little less upset by my efforts to brush his teeth, but he still hates that too. I wish I could hide a toothbrush in his food LOL...
I hope your kitty gets all better, physically and emotionally. *hugs*
Oh, I have been where you are - and it isn't a good place to be. I always ask my vet if there is a shot that can be given (they are usually long-term acting) which immediately gets where it needs to be and start the healing, and relieves me of the stalking-snatching-dosing-feeling bad episodes that occur. I have had the same response to the Clindamyacin - the refusal and vomiting - and I just gave it up and talked to the vet again. There has to be something to substitute for it - and since she's already been on it for so long, is there not enough in her system now to fight off the second eye inflammation? She will come back around (the good news), but it may take her a little time. Her pride is wounded right now - but I'm pretty sure she still loves you!!!!! Good luck - looking forward to next update.
I hear ya on the forcing of meds (and in my case food) that makes the cat run away. That's why I kept working at finding non-forcible ways of medicating Amber. After she gave up on pill pockets and then during this recent round has given up on liquids that she used to like to drink, I dug around to find something else. What I found was the My Little Lion soft treats are just soft enough to form around a small pill, though crumbly so it's tricky. But she is eating them like crazy so it's working well. Not the best stuff in there but I just can't care about that at the moment.
So basically yes I would add to the chorus of those suggesting perhaps trying the pill form of the meds assuming there is one (or some other form if not; if it must be liquid see if you can have compounded with flavoring) and hope that you can restore some of Callie's earlier personality. Hang in there.
When we had Nimbus on the liquid antibiotic, he only had to take about half a tiny dropper of it per dose, so I took a small spoonful of canned food and mixed it in real good and he ate that while I watched. When he finished it I would give him the rest of his meal. I was so glad this worked, because trying to restrain and dose him with the medicine was horribly traumatic! But somehow he had no problem with being restrained for his eye ointment. Stuff in the eyes, fine...but stay away from his mouth!
Callie doesn't want anything in her eyes. She's getting more frantic every day and putting up more of a fight. She doesn't try to bite, but scratches us in her struggles to escape. Yes, her claws are clipped. She's very good about that. This med she's on has an odor so would be impossible to hide in her food.
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He is a little less upset by my efforts to brush his teeth, but he still hates that too. I wish I could hide a toothbrush in his food LOL...
So far, knock on wood, all 4 have nice white teeth. Will your cat eat stuff liker raw chicken gizzards? I believe all the gizzard chewing is what's keeping my cat's teeth clean. And they get very little kibble.
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I hope your kitty gets all better, physically and emotionally. *hugs*
At this point we're as concerned for her emotional health as we are her eyes. It's clear she considers it some kind of "torture" and there is no way to make her understand it's for her own good. Our other real concern is what's causing this. What's behind it. The Vet said last time we saw her that in many cases, no one knows. We don't believe she has some disease behind it because she eats so well, is growing normally, has a beautiful sleek glistening coat and normal urine and feces. She started to relax enough to play once we stopped the liquid antibiotics. But the worry is... we don't know what's behind this.
I hear ya on the forcing of meds (and in my case food) that makes the cat run away. That's why I kept working at finding non-forcible ways of medicating Amber. After she gave up on pill pockets and then during this recent round has given up on liquids that she used to like to drink, I dug around to find something else. What I found was the My Little Lion soft treats are just soft enough to form around a small pill, though crumbly so it's tricky. But she is eating them like crazy so it's working well. Not the best stuff in there but I just can't care about that at the moment.
So basically yes I would add to the chorus of those suggesting perhaps trying the pill form of the meds assuming there is one (or some other form if not; if it must be liquid see if you can have compounded with flavoring) and hope that you can restore some of Callie's earlier personality. Hang in there.
So basically yes I would add to the chorus of those suggesting perhaps trying the pill form of the meds assuming there is one (or some other form if not; if it must be liquid see if you can have compounded with flavoring) and hope that you can restore some of Callie's earlier personality. Hang in there.
That's Greg. When we see the vet tomorrow I'll ask about getting the medication into her some other way. Or to add flavoring of some kind. It's a gross tasting med and smells bad as well. We did get it into her this morning but she choked and gagged and tried to bring it up. I'm not going to try again. With all the struggling she does now I fear inhalation pneumonia. I don't know if she did get it up because she went and hid for awhile. We did get the drops in her eye. Her eye looks about the same as yesterday. The other eye stayed clear - so far.
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We're now using the medication in that eye, but she refuses to take any more of that liquid antibiotic. She's starting to hide, shows fear of my husband as he restrains for her me, and when forced on her, she throws up the medication. She gags on it and we're afraid we'll get it in one of her lungs. She starts to fight like a hellcat to get away as soon as she's aware of what we're doing. 
