katy15
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So I have a 1 year old English bulldog who has had many issues with her eyes. She was diagnosed with distichia and on top of that she normally has pretty dry and irritated eyes, which we give her eye drops for daily. About 4 months ago she got cherry eye and it went away on it's own in about a day and half, but 4 days ago it came back and hasn't gone away. She has an appointment tomorrow evening to get it popped back into place but of course the vet was suggesting picking a surgery option for when the other eye has cherry eye because she said it'll just pop right back out sooner or later. Now this vet normally always suggest a surgery option at the first chance which we don't go for we tend to want to try other options because we know putting a bulldog under is risky but Lily already has breathing issues with catching her breath so it's kind of scary to think about.
I understand there are two surgery options 1. removing the third eyelid completely and 2. preserving the eyelid by stitching it to the other.
The only issues we have with option 1 is that she already has horribly irritated/dry eyes which we have to use eye drops for and I couldn't imagine her having to go through that even more but this is a better of the two.
The issues we have with option 2 is that she would be put under general anesthesia not local and if the stitches rip they have to do the surgery all over again and I could imagine that would be painful. So this seems just very risky and from a few people I have talked to this happens a good bit.
Is there anyone who has a bulldog with very similar eye issues that have gone through this or is going through this now? Any advice?
I understand there are two surgery options 1. removing the third eyelid completely and 2. preserving the eyelid by stitching it to the other.
The only issues we have with option 1 is that she already has horribly irritated/dry eyes which we have to use eye drops for and I couldn't imagine her having to go through that even more but this is a better of the two.
The issues we have with option 2 is that she would be put under general anesthesia not local and if the stitches rip they have to do the surgery all over again and I could imagine that would be painful. So this seems just very risky and from a few people I have talked to this happens a good bit.
Is there anyone who has a bulldog with very similar eye issues that have gone through this or is going through this now? Any advice?