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Glaucoma/ Not good news

Hugo's There

Wise Old Thumper
What are the symptoms of Glaucoma? And treatment wise is it preferable to a retrobulbar tumour or is the out look pretty much the same? :(
 
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Glaucoma = bulging eyeball, and hard to the touch. Your vet will be able to tell glaucoma from retrobulbar abscess.

Treatment is removal of the eye, or eye drops if the rabbit isn't healthy enough for major surgery (I use Azopt, Brinzolamide 10mg/ml)

Winston's glaucoma eye is very cloudy, but I don't know whether this is always a symptom.
 
I am thinking it is either a tumour or glaucoma, or both :(

She has already had one eye removed and I thought the other looked bulging but thought I was being paranoid as we have a quite a few with eye problems at the moment. I thought last night that it looked the wrong colour. I had a proper look this morning with an otoscope and it isn't cloudy at all it reflects back red :(
 
I assume the red is blood, I think this can develop with gluacoma- but gluacoma and eye bleeds can be due to high blood pressure ( certainly with cats anyway :?). The vets think Katie's eye problems may be due to high blood pressure but I don't know how we will go about measuring it.
 
Yes I am sure it is blood :(

I am panicing a bit as we had a rabbit called Lottie a couple of years ago who's eyes looked exactly the same as this. She had a combination of glaucoma and tumours. The vet wanted to pts straight away, but she had only just arrived so we persuaded the vet to let us give her a bit of time with high pain relief etc and she lived for a month. She had other health problems too

Summer was 9 in May, i have had since she was 6 weeks old and only has this one eye left :(
 
It's difficult when there's no other eye to compare it to isn't it?
My bun's eye reflects red although he's got a brown iris. It's just the retinal blood vessels at the back.
I think that there are many possible diagnoses, ranging from stress/high BP (both eyes) to thymoma. I agree with AMS that acute glaucoma is painful, as is retrobulbar abscess.

Has the bulging started suddenly -overnight or more slowly?
 
More slowly. I thought I was imagining it, as it is one of my paranoid things - we have lots of buns with tumours/ abscesses behind there eyes at present, plus a few have had bleeds behind their eyes. So I am constantly checking them and am always asking Steve is this eye bulging to you? :oops:

However in the last week she has started bumping into furniture that has not been moved about, and seems a little "not with it" and the last 2 days she has been quite aggressive towards Revel :?
 
I guess that puts infection & sudden bleed at the bottom of the list unless a small bleed in the eye is gradually blocking aqueous humour drainage, - a sort of medium onset glaucoma.
It's a bit fast for tooth root incursion into the eye socket too.

Sorry Liz I'll have everything crossed that it is benign & easy to treat.

I guess she's feeling very disorientated & frightened with poor vision/loss of vision in her remaining eye, hence her aggression.
 
Thanks for the reply. I started her on Metacam this morning and she has slept well most of the day. Yesterday she was banging her feet a lot.

Maybe I am still over reacting :? I hope so. It just reminds me of Lottie, her tumour put pressure on her eye and caused a bleed at the back of her eye, I think thats what happened it was several years ago now, so can't remember all the explanation. But remember clearly what it looked like.
 
Ok I have now gone round other dark eyed bunnies and looked in their eyes :oops: ( poor things think they are guinea pigs not rabbits :lol:) and While other dark eyed buns are red at the back of their eyes Summers is slightly different. I don;t quite no how to describe it, its a slightly different shade and maybe not so opaque :?

I'm no expert so I will try not to panic before we can see a vet, one thing is certain from her behaviour, the sight has gone from her remaining eye :(
 
Had a look at Franks remaining eye this evening when he went back in his hutch. His looks the same as Summers. He was diagnosed with a tumour behind his eye several weeks ago :(
 
Thank you. She is booked in for Wednesday morning as she seems much more comfortable on the metacam and we have a few booked in for tomorrow already :oops:
 
I hope the vet is able to give you some reassurance and that Summer is not in too much discomfort
 
Its not glaucoma, I didn't really think it was but was just hoping that might be the best option :(

Summer is definitely blind in her remaining eye. the vet isn;t 100% certain what is going on but there is something very wrong with her eye. It isn't presenting as
a normal tumour but they can't rule it out. The only way we can know what has happened to her eye for certain is to send her to a specialist for an MRI or U/S of the eye. But in reality it would be too much for Summer to go through and the chances the eye could be fixed are very low. So we will continue with metacam and keep her comfortable for as long as possible :(
 
sorry to hear about Summer's eye

Dear Hugo's There
Sorry to read your posts and thread. So upsetting having eye problems.
Like Summer our Bandit is elderly (9) and frail and can't undergo procedures-- we are just keeping him on maintenance meds and Metacam. Bandit is completely blind but Rose comforts him and he follows her about.
Good luck
Shebunkin
 
Its not glaucoma, I didn't really think it was but was just hoping that might be the best option :(

Summer is definitely blind in her remaining eye. the vet isn;t 100% certain what is going on but there is something very wrong with her eye. It isn't presenting as
a normal tumour but they can't rule it out. The only way we can know what has happened to her eye for certain is to send her to a specialist for an MRI or U/S of the eye. But in reality it would be too much for Summer to go through and the chances the eye could be fixed are very low. So we will continue with metacam and keep her comfortable for as long as possible :(

Poor Summer. I am sorry Liz. But with pain relief and close monitoring she'll have the best she can hope for while she's with you. Sending vibes for her.
 
I'm truely so sorry. I cannot imagine the emotional cost of having so many terminally ill bunnies. I DO know that they have everything a bunny asks for, which is to be surrounded by love, all their bunny needs met, & respect for their differing personalities.
I know that Summer will at last have a taste of the best possible life on this earth, with you.
 
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