Sparklet
Well-Known Member
I posted about a month ago about my daughters horse who exited the stable one morning with a cloudy film over her eye.
She is still in the darkened stable having drops 3 x a day which she is tolerating very well considering. We did go through a phase when we used a twitch but it really didnt help much and one day my daughter had to do it on her own (no-one holding pony still) and she was much better behaved so maybe she didnt like the overcrowding.
It has been making slow and steady improvement over the weeks, however the vet does keep muttering about wanting it to clear a bit quicker.
We have managed to get her out in the field a few times by leaving my horse out late and turning her out when it is dusk therefore the bright light is not entering her eye. She is also lunged in the dark but otherwise is spending the day confined to a dark stable.
I usually use a torch to check her eye in a morning and this morning it didnt look like it had before so I brought her out of the stable into the covered fold yard to get a better look.
If you imagine her eye was an onion made up of several very thin layers - it looks like someone has removed the top layer of the onion leaving a dip about the size of the blunt end of a pen.
To be honest I was not sure if it always looks like this because I could not see the dip in the dark stable so my daughter went home to ring the vet to check (he visited on Monday) and he is coming later. It seems like the eye is starting to ulcerate - he did say not to worry too much but we may be taking that fateful trip to horsey hospital after all. He may be able to change her drugs but wants to see it first.
I feel like shouting from the rooftops....dont mess with eyes. They can go wrong so easily and this has been a month long problem now.
Will keep those interested updated.
She is still in the darkened stable having drops 3 x a day which she is tolerating very well considering. We did go through a phase when we used a twitch but it really didnt help much and one day my daughter had to do it on her own (no-one holding pony still) and she was much better behaved so maybe she didnt like the overcrowding.
It has been making slow and steady improvement over the weeks, however the vet does keep muttering about wanting it to clear a bit quicker.
We have managed to get her out in the field a few times by leaving my horse out late and turning her out when it is dusk therefore the bright light is not entering her eye. She is also lunged in the dark but otherwise is spending the day confined to a dark stable.
I usually use a torch to check her eye in a morning and this morning it didnt look like it had before so I brought her out of the stable into the covered fold yard to get a better look.
If you imagine her eye was an onion made up of several very thin layers - it looks like someone has removed the top layer of the onion leaving a dip about the size of the blunt end of a pen.
To be honest I was not sure if it always looks like this because I could not see the dip in the dark stable so my daughter went home to ring the vet to check (he visited on Monday) and he is coming later. It seems like the eye is starting to ulcerate - he did say not to worry too much but we may be taking that fateful trip to horsey hospital after all. He may be able to change her drugs but wants to see it first.
I feel like shouting from the rooftops....dont mess with eyes. They can go wrong so easily and this has been a month long problem now.
Will keep those interested updated.
