Agreed, if it's not one thing, it's 3 others.
Well, we lost Sage and Chelsea, and then yesterday very good friends of ours lost their 16+ yr old cocker. They say things happen in threes. We had our new boy back to the vet for a re-check on ...
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dturm wrote:
Minor increases in pressure can easily be missed, but even without vision loss, changes in the appearance of the eye and comparisons between the eyes can give a clue. I've found that a high percentage to dogs with glaucoma also have injected sclera.
Doug, DVM
Okay, Dr. Doug -- you have my cog wheels spinning.... watch out! :B
What are you talking about in your reference to injected sclera? Is that a condition of the eye that can be a cause of the glaucoma, or are you referring to the eye injection that is done if the medications don't control the pressure?
I know with Sage, she had an old age cataract. Apparently the cataract shifted -- and at the point that the glaucoma was diagnosed, it was one of those, "What came first" scenarios. The vet said the glaucoma could have caused the shift in the lens due to increased pressure, or the glaucoma could have been caused by the shifted lens blocking the ducts.
