Ella is a pretty healthy girl, but she has had a recurring problem with her eyes; not the eyes themselves, but the area around the eyes gets infected every few years. Whether its a sensitivity to dust or something else, I don't know, but a couple of tubes of Terramycin clears it up. A year ago, I bought a tube of Terramycin on Amazon for less than $5, and still had it, but I didn't want to trust something that was a year old, particularly having to do with her eyes, and I'm glad I didn't because after getting a new tube, I could see that it was a different color.
She developed reddened and sensitive skin around her eyes during our trip to Michigan; actually, I noticed the start of a problem before we left. I went on Amazon to buy a couple of tubes of Terramycin and found that it now requires a prescription.
Upon returning to Maine, I made an appointment with the veterinarian in order to get the prescription. That cost me over $400 for what had been a $5 tube of Terramycin. One tube wasn't going to be enough and, from past experiences, I knew that one tube wasn't going to be enough, particularly accounting for waste, given that some of it tends to ooze out of the tube before I can get the cap on, particularly between the first and second eye, given that I am trying to hold on to the cat at the same time.
Sure enough, when the first tube was nearly depleted, I called the vet for a refill on the Terramycin and they refused to give it to me, requiring me to bring her back in. Over $300 later, I had a second tube of Terramycin but, in the meantime, some of the improvements brought about by the first tube had worsened.
So, I paid nearly $800 for $10 worth of Terramycin, and am not certain this is going to work, given that they let things get worse again between the time that the first tube ran out and I could get an appointment to get her back in for the second.
Just today, I noticed that the price of Terramycin has gone up from less than $5 to $31 on Amazon, but it would still be far cheaper than the vet.
I am thinking of subscribing to a virtual veterinary care program, which would be able to prescribe such things. Of course, there would still be things that would have to be taken care of in person but for something like this, the costs would be considrably less; plus, I could use that subscription for health-related questions that I might have short of emergency care.
She developed reddened and sensitive skin around her eyes during our trip to Michigan; actually, I noticed the start of a problem before we left. I went on Amazon to buy a couple of tubes of Terramycin and found that it now requires a prescription.
Upon returning to Maine, I made an appointment with the veterinarian in order to get the prescription. That cost me over $400 for what had been a $5 tube of Terramycin. One tube wasn't going to be enough and, from past experiences, I knew that one tube wasn't going to be enough, particularly accounting for waste, given that some of it tends to ooze out of the tube before I can get the cap on, particularly between the first and second eye, given that I am trying to hold on to the cat at the same time.
Sure enough, when the first tube was nearly depleted, I called the vet for a refill on the Terramycin and they refused to give it to me, requiring me to bring her back in. Over $300 later, I had a second tube of Terramycin but, in the meantime, some of the improvements brought about by the first tube had worsened.
So, I paid nearly $800 for $10 worth of Terramycin, and am not certain this is going to work, given that they let things get worse again between the time that the first tube ran out and I could get an appointment to get her back in for the second.
Just today, I noticed that the price of Terramycin has gone up from less than $5 to $31 on Amazon, but it would still be far cheaper than the vet.
I am thinking of subscribing to a virtual veterinary care program, which would be able to prescribe such things. Of course, there would still be things that would have to be taken care of in person but for something like this, the costs would be considrably less; plus, I could use that subscription for health-related questions that I might have short of emergency care.
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Well, at least they now have "Telephone Dr. visits" that only cost $200.00. After getting my credit card info, a nurse calls & asks me a few asinine questions like "What do you usually eat for breakfast, lunch & dinner, etc, then sends the Rx to the pharmacy.