Drops, Drops & More Drops

What a system that is Corrine!  LOL I can say that I am in almost the exact same boat.  Baxter, too, is on 3 different meds, but luckily mine are all both eyes, two times a day, every day.  He’s also a trooper and just lets me plop those drops right in his peepers.  When those moist, bright eyes look up at me, I know it is worth every ounce of effort and cost!  Here’s a kiss to you pretty Luna!

oh my goodness… love your chart!  Whatever works for you Corrine.  It is hard to remember when you’ve taken meds, when you’re suppose to take meds… then OMGosh which one did I take!!  It is a blessing that they they don’t fight the routine of getting their drops!  Like expressed in earlier posts.. they know it makes them feels better.

I shall tell Bella about Luna and how cooperative she is with her eye drops and see if that makes “Miss Don’t Mess With Me” more cooperative about her daily face and ear cleanings and about taking her allergy meds.  I know I will certainly not complain about having a pug with allergies any longer - or I will think of you with your eye drop schedule and visits to the Drs. and will just zip my lip.
Luna’s sweetness (and your love and care) shines through her lovely, bright eyes.

wow Corrine you seemed to have worked out a good system I dont know if I could remember all that I have to agree with you the cost is high but well worth it if it is helping sweet luna you are such a devoted mommy I love the picture of Luna how is Benny doing

Very creative plan for those eye drops!

Oh My!!!.....Thank goodness little Luna has a Mom like you. She is such a sweet and special little girl.

Poor girl!  You’re such a dedicated pug mommy!  Way to go.  I can relate to little Luna with as many pills as I take for migraines a day.  I had to start writing on the bottles so I make sure I take what I need to when I need to.  Hang in there girls!  It’s all for the better!

wow… that’s all i can say about that.  good for you and luna. that is one crazy routine to keep track of.

goodness, that is quite a routine! bless you for taking care of little luna’s special needs. olive will be 3 yrs old in 6 days, and we have been so fortunate to have no health issues so far. karen b., i am wondering too about the eye issues? does anyone know if this is something that will definitely come with age, or does it just depend on the pug? i’m not sure what to watch for either, any tips on that?

I googled KCS (dry eye) and there are several causes listed, and lastly they don’t always know what causes it.  It does stress that a life long commitment to medicating the eyes is necessary.  In the google box I typed in “what causes dry eyes” and there are several sites.

Wow, Corrine, Abby’s regimen is pitiful compared to that!  You are a super duper pug mommy for coming up with that system, I never would have thought of that.  about 14 months ago, when Ab’s eye condition (KCS) “exploded”, I too kept written track of what had been done, what needed to be done, etc, but no where near the organization of your system!  If Luna is like Abby, you prolly need to invest quite a bit of money in necessary treats to get the job done, as well, right?

the canine opthalmologist we see (who has a pug herself) thinks with pugs, that it is an “exposure” related problem, since when they stick their heads into places, they don’t have a long muzzle to help deflect stuff away from their eyes, so when a pug sticks their face in a bush, weeds, etc, it is their eyes that can get traumatized.  Entropian eyelids/lashes can traumatize the eye surface too (rolling inwards, also because of the wrinkle, brachycephalic situation).

actually, Abby had lots of eye boogies, and that was a sign of the dry eye problem (cuz the tears have a liquid component, and a mucus component, and with dry eye, there is less liquid, so it will look more eye boogy"ish”.  I had no idea that is what it was either, but the next time you are at the vet, they can do a Schirmer tear test to measure tear production).

I guess, in hind sight, I wish we had had our regular vet be “onto” the eye condition sooner, cuz her eyes were goopy for quite a while, and they never mentioned dry eye, and I failed to google it.  But, after she got an eye infection in her worse eye, they did do the more extensive eye workup in the clinic, which showed her issue was deeper than just an eye infection. 

But with some of that abnormal, we went to an excellent doggy eye doctor, who just treats eyes, she is extremely brilliant, when we saw her, it was just as if you or I went to the eye doctor, special lights, glaucoma test, stain for corneal abrasions, etc, etc.  Abby was put on cyclosporine ointment (higher concentration than drops), which has helped immensely.  I am not sure about this next part, but Abby had had some cloudiness or scarring on her cornea, and with the treatment (now, for the rest of her life) some of the surface clouding has cleared, and the doggy eye doctor thinks she has really pretty good vision for a 12.5 yr old princess:-)

Corrine, I enjoy this site so much! We have 2 pugs, Petunia and Quigley, who are our hearts! Like your sweet Luna,Quigley also has KCS. He’s been on cyclosporin and genteal for over a year. It really didn’t seem to help him, in fact he has gotton much worse. He began to walk into things, and we have had a visit with an optomoligist in Baton Rouge for over 2 months. Well we finally got to see her. They prescribed Protopic .03% in each eye twice a day, it is quite expensive at $150 for 30g,  and of course tear lubricant 4 or more times a day, plus pilocarpine 1% 1 drop in food twice a day, increasing to 2 drops 2nd week twice a day, up to the amount he can tolerate. I know this is an eye drop, but she said it is used very successfully taken orally. Well, thankfully, his eyes look amazingly better. We go back in six weeks for a followup. We are so thrilled, and hope Luna’s eyes continue to improve too.