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

[Anikaca77]

Well 2 more days and 1 night to go of the meds. Hermes hates this meds. So I'm giving him can food in the evenings after he gets the meds and milk in the morning after meds so he doesn't hate me completely.

[rg_girlca]

Poor Hermes. I pray that with the medication his eye will get better and have no further problems with it.

Did the vet say that the Herpes might come back or will this treatment take care of it for good?

[Medusa]

Aw, I'm sorry to hear this. Let's hope that the treatment will take care of things fast.

[momcat]

Poor little guy! I hope he's feeling better and his eye is clearing up. Please know that Hermes remains in my prayers right along with you too.

[Anikaca77]

Well last night Hermes hid from me and I sorta figured he was hiding because he didn't want his meds. Well I was wrong he threw up again. I've spoken to the vets about this but it's just so hard to watch because he gets upset and hides so last night I felt it was a good thing not to give him the meds since I didn't want him to throw it right back up and then again this morning he woke me up with throwing up so I stayed up with him and he's doing much better now.

I'll keep you all update on him and thank you all for the prays!

[Anikaca77]

Poor Hermes. I pray that with the medication his eye will get better and have no further problems with it.

Did the vet say that the Herpes might come back or will this treatment take care of it for good?

His eye is actually all healed, on Friday we saw the eye ulcers but on Tuesday when I took him in he didn't have them. So he's eye is completely healed it's just getting these meds in him that's a difficult task.

The vet said that once they have this virus they have it for life. The vet said that I will do another 5 days in 3 months but after that I'm not sure where we will go.

The vet said I could do a herpes test to see if he really does have that so I might do that just to make sure I'm not giving him these meds for no reason.

[jennielynn1970]

The vet said that once they have this virus they have it for life.

It's the same with people. The herpes virus is in the blood, and travels the nervous system. There are many different strains of it, and stress can bring it on (like when you get Shingles... it's a herpes virus, as is Chicken Pox and if you get cold sores or mouth ulcers). The virus is still there, it's just whether it's active or dormant.

[Medusa]

Yes, I can attest to that. I had fever blisters as a child, still get them on occasion, and a couple of years ago I had shingles because I was working such long hours and was stressed to the max. I eat yogurt every day and it does help so maybe your vet can suggest something besides medication that can help Hermes.

[moosmom]

MooShoo has a herpes virus in his eyes. The breeder failed to treat it so he's partially blind from the scar tissue that formed on his pupils. Hopefully you've caught Hermes virus in time to treat it without any damage.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I'm sorry to hear that he has herpes. There are several other PT'ers that have cats with this and I think that some of them give their cats Lysine. You may want to pm critter crazy about this because I think that her Mocha also has this. Good luck.