UPDATE HERMES HAS *HERPIES*! My Little Man Hermes Eye Issue

[Anikaca77]

Actually Hermes is much better now.

He still has Herpes but over all he's in great health. We give him Elysine (spelling?) and that seems to help with his out breaks.

Thanks,
Melissa

[pomtzu]

Years ago my son had a cat with Herpes - his chin would swell when he had an outbreak. The vet never had him on any regular meds, and he lived a fairly long and otherwide healthy life (he went to RB at about 13).

[Catlady711]

Actually Hermes is much better now.

He still has Herpes but over all he's in great health. We give him Elysine (spelling?) and that seems to help with his out breaks.

Thanks,
Melissa

Did you mean Lysine? We use that one at work for kitties with herpes, mixed results with it. Some it does a great job on helping them, on others some improvement but not great. I'm glad it seems to be working for Hermes.

Did they say how expensive the test is? If it's not all that bad it might be worth doing if he hates his meds so much he makes himself sick. Dusty used to do that with anything oral and we eneded up having to give most everything by injection because she'd get so upset.

Thank you for posting an update. Give Hermes a hug for me.

[Anikaca77]

Hi there, I think it's that but I'll have to look when I go home.

It works fine for him.

I'm not sure what test you are referring to. Hermes has since stopped throwing up we found out it was cat nip from a plant that he doesn't agree with him and makes him throw up.

Hermes is all better other than the Herpes and his tale thing now but we are trying to get that under control.

Thanks,
Melissa

Did you mean Lysine? We use that one at work for kitties with herpes, mixed results with it. Some it does a great job on helping them, on others some improvement but not great. I'm glad it seems to be working for Hermes.

Did they say how expensive the test is? If it's not all that bad it might be worth doing if he hates his meds so much he makes himself sick. Dusty used to do that with anything oral and we eneded up having to give most everything by injection because she'd get so upset.

Thank you for posting an update. Give Hermes a hug for me.

[Catlady711]

Hi there, I think it's that but I'll have to look when I go home.

It works fine for him.

I'm not sure what test you are referring to. Hermes has since stopped throwing up we found out it was cat nip from a plant that he doesn't agree with him and makes him throw up.

Hermes is all better other than the Herpes and his tale thing now but we are trying to get that under control.

Thanks,
Melissa

Maybe I missed a couple posts when I was reading. I thought at one point your vet said you could do a test to be sure it's herpes so you'd know if you had to keep giving the Lysine or not. Sometimes I'm doing several things online at once so I may have confused something.

I'm glad things are improving with the vomiting. I hope things go just as well with everything else and he'll be good as new in no time.

[Anikaca77]

I think the one post you might of saw about Hermes was a test they were going to perform if he didn't stop vomiting but we found out the reason and since then he's been healthy and fine!

Thanks!
Melissa

Maybe I missed a couple posts when I was reading. I thought at one point your vet said you could do a test to be sure it's herpes so you'd know if you had to keep giving the Lysine or not. Sometimes I'm doing several things online at once so I may have confused something.

I'm glad things are improving with the vomiting. I hope things go just as well with everything else and he'll be good as new in no time.

[Catlady711]

I think the one post you might of saw about Hermes was a test they were going to perform if he didn't stop vomiting but we found out the reason and since then he's been healthy and fine!

Thanks!
Melissa

Ah ok. Glad you found out what it was and didn't have to get the test then.