Why do these things happen on Bank Holidays? one of my girls eyes has been a bit watery for a few days but I couldn't see anything obvious wrong. This morning it seemed a bit worse and cloudy so braved my vets out of hours prices. She thinks it is a deep ulcer and has referred me over to the eye vet at Frodsham. £500 consultation and £2500 if she needs an op. I know nothing about eye ulcers. Has anyone had any experience of healing them up? Is she likely to need an op? I have to be there at 3:00pm.  Wish us luck. Thanks

Eek, that seems astronomical. One of my GSD's had one, I got up one morning and she had a really watery eye so nipped her to the vets. It was very deep but and we were warned that they may have to sew her eye closed to allow it to heal, but we give a gel to put on the eye every two hours (alarm had to be set through the night) and they monitored her very closely over the next few days. It healed absolutely fine, with no need for further intervention.

A couple of weeks ago my friend noticed a bulge on one of her goldens eyes and as you say it looked a little cloudy. We took him to the Vets and it turned out he had an ulcer and she was given drops to put in twice a week. It healed fine and the bulge has totally gone down.

Good luck with your girl.

My dog damaged his eye while bramble bashing when he was young (1.5 years)which ulcerated. Antibiotics did no good so in the end my vet took blood and extracted the dogs own serum of which i put in drops 3 times daily, it probably took a couple of weeks to work but no operation was needed. In total it took about 4-6 weeks to repair, charges were not unreasonable just normal consultation each visit plus drugs (unable to remember how much, 8 years ago) he retained most of his sight but ended up with a scar. Mr Mason does his yearly eye BVA checkup and comments about the scar but no other problems.

Back from the veets with a very sleepy baby. She has had an operation to cut a flap of the cornea and stitch it over the ulcer to help it heal. She has to have drops every 2 hours even through the night.  The bill was bad but not quite as bad as they had said at first.

one of my dogs had that op a few years ago for an ulcer. (it's a corneal graft I think) We tried to heal it with drops for a few days but that didn't work, I'm surprised they went straight for the op with yours but that said they are very careful with eye problems, the ulcer basically eats away at the structure of the eye so if it's allowed to get too bad it could be very serious.
Mine was about 6 years ago and was a scheduled op in surgery hours, I can't remember exactly but I think it was around £300ish. £2k seems horrifying even for out of hours to me! of course I am probably lucky in that our practice has it's own eye specialist (it's a big rural area with 3-4 branches) so probably would cost more to see him if he wasn't part of my vets. also they do all their own emergency cover which I think is getting less common in urban areas.

the graft healed the eye nicely, the only flaw was that in theory when the ulcer is healed they intend to snip the bridge of flesh carrying the blood supply to the graft and it then shrinks up and disappears. In my case the graft bonded with the eye and grew it's own blood supply (apparently that doesn't usually happen in dogs, more often in cats) so the graft stayed and is still there 5 years later! It makes no difference to me but might to some people.
good luck.

My Evie had an ulcer that seemed to last a long time. My lovely vet tried lots of different eye drops and talked of surgery.He also offered to arrange an appointment for me to see an eye specialist with her. It was £120.00 for the appointment and then the price of any treatment. I agreed to have a consultation which he arranged for me. Before i attended the appointment my vet rang me and said he had been looking in a medical directory and had found something else that may help her. He offered to give me a prescription for some more eye drops, plus some annisetic pipettes to put into her eye before the drops. My local chemist arranged to get the in for me. I picked them up next day and got going with them. What a miracle!
We kept going with the drops for a few days and i rang my vet back as i thought it looked slightly better. Took Evie back and he said it did like it was healing slightly. We kept going with the drops over a period of approx 2 weeks and it completely healed. Cancelled the appointment - so no large bill. Only paid the price for the drops at the chemist which was £3.16 each tube.