My dog recently got diagnosed with glaucoma and is having laser surgery today to prevent the pressure buildups. Are there dogs out there that have had glaucoma that have not lost all of there vision?
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Most dogs I here that get gluacoma end up going blind. My dog had it but with him it came up in the matter of days. There are drop you can give to help keep the pressure down.
Also if your dog does loss his vistion and the eyes don’t look so good you can have a glass eye put in.
glaucoma does not necessarily mean blindness, but it does cause serious fogginess to their vision. If she is having surgery to relieve the pressure, that should help.
I have had 2 dogs over the years with glaucoma — unfortunately, both have ultimately lost their vision due to the problem. One dog developed glaucoma in both eyes (over the course of about 2 years) and eventually went completely blind. The other is a 10 year old lead dog of mine who developed the problem in one eye and lost vision. We had surgery done to “seal” the eye, unfortunately that also killed the vision — is this the same type of surgery you’re talking about?
Not sure if the surgery you’re describing will open the drainage angles and hopefully allow the dog to still see without developing the problem, or if it’s the surgery I just mentioned.
In any case, my dog is on now 2 types of eyedrops in order to keep the affected eye from drying out, and to hopefully prevent glaucoma in her good eye. This is a hereditary problem in the racing lines I have. Luckily, neither of my two affected dogs were ever bred.
Sorry I can’t give a more positive response, but maybe others have had better luck…
Good luck with your dog!
ADDED: Horsegal is absolutely right — in the case of my first affected dog, we had no idea of what we were dealing with until it was way too late to save the eye. It was so large that we had it enucleated because the pressure alone was painful to the dog. My veterinary opthalmologist tells me that, much of the time, the eye is beyond saving by the time the owner notices a physical difference.
I think KB is thinking of cataracts.