I took my kitten to this vet for an eye squinting slightly, with a small discolored spot in the corner of her eye, she was given antibiotic eye drops and a steroid shot, under the assumption is was a ... Read More
I took my kitten to this vet for an eye squinting slightly, with a small discolored spot in the corner of her eye, she was given antibiotic eye drops and a steroid shot, under the assumption is was a scratch. Her eye got worse by the next day, was now completely held closed and had gone very red. They said to take her back in. I mentioned that I thought it might be Herpes, since I had been reading about it and it seemed to match what she had, and she had just been sick with Herpes like symptoms a few days before, also the fact she came from a feral colony that had known Herpes carriers added to the possibility. The vet and assistant literally LAUGHED at me, and told me it was impossible, because she wasn't sneezing right now and both eye weren't infected. She was given more eye drops and more steroids. Her eye got drastically worse. The only good thing is the vet told me to take her to a specialist if it didn't get better, but by that point we had to wait a week to get in to see them. They confirmed that is WAS Herpes, and that the steroid shots and the ingredients in the eye drops were actually helping the Herpes to get worse. By then her whole eye was completely clouded over, and she now had four ulcers and pits, when she only came in with one small ulcer. As soon as she was given the proper treatment for Herpes her eye began improving, but her eye is now permanently smaller and pitted, which would not have happened if she had been treated correctly in the first place, and my concerns of Herpes had not been laughed away. Also I wasted over $200 for a vet that made the situation worse, and much much more for a specialist, for something that could have been handled easily from the beginning. I'm disabled and have very little money, and a lot of rescues to take care of, I can't afford to waste money on doctors that make the problem worse. If they didn't know what to do the least they could have done was send me to the specialist right away, instead of having me come back in for a second useless visit. Read Less