Blood in the eye and personal consequences

[Giraffe76]

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Hi all,

Hope this post is in the right place

We noticed last week that our 10 year old male GSD had blood in one of his eyes. We took him to the vets and was given antiflamatory/antibiotic meds (which i thought was a strange decision but im not a vet so..)
Since then he had 2 unusual behaviour incidents (looking confussed, dazzed, looking around, not seemingly knowing where he was and panting heavily) so took him back to the vets, they did a blood test and ultrasound which were both clear so we have booked in with a neurology specialist but now my wife is wondering whether to cancel the appointment but im not sure.
To add to the situation a few weeks before all of the above happened we were talking to someone who knows alot about dogs and advised us to get salmon oil so we tried him on some of that but it seemed to put him off his food (he was a food monster before) and now we are struggling to get him to eat anything in his food unless we put chicken or some other type of naughty in it (hope that makes sense) to get him to have his meds as he needs to eat with the meds so our hands are tied.
To add yet more layers to this situation we lost his companion in august (a 11 year old female GSD). We were meant to go on holiday to greece in may for our 20th wedding anniversary. Our female GSD got diagnosed with a cancer lump last year which was removed but it returned this year and was more aggressive so we didnt go to greece then we lost her. Now we have this sitaution with our 1 remaining GSD and are booked to go to egypt next month (my wife has health conditions and the heat gives her great relief) and its her 60th in january and we are booked to go to cape verde for 10 days then.
What would you all do?
Has anyone had this blood in the eye situation before?
Is it a tumour as i feel my wife is fearing?
Need thoughts and opinions pleasse
Sorry for the length of post and hope it makes

Kind regards Mark

 

[JoanneF]

What antibiotic was he given? My dog had a bad reaction to metronidazol earlier this year.

 

[JudyN]

In your place I would go ahead with the neurology appointment. Particularly with your planned holidays, I would want to have as much information as possible. Do you have a trusted person you would leave your GSD with?

 

[Giraffe76]

What antibiotic was he given? My dog had a bad reaction to metronidazol earlier this year.

Thanks for your reply. We were given Rheumocam

 

[Giraffe76]

In your place I would go ahead with the neurology appointment. Particularly with your planned holidays, I would want to have as much information as possible. Do you have a trusted person you would leave your GSD with?

We planned on leaving him with friends who he has stayed with before so that isn't an issue but I'm.not sure if it's fair to them to potentially have to make that decision if his health goes downhill even though they say they're happy to have him

 

[JudyN]

I found the following online:

'The following suspected adverse reactions have been reported:

Gastrointestinal: Vomiting, diarrhea, inappetence, melena, hematemesis, ulceration.

Central Nervous System/Behavioural: Ataxia, personality change, seizures, sleepiness, hyperactivity, depression, trembling...'

Now, often 'suspected' side effects just happened to co-occur and are nothing to do with the medication, but I think my first step would be getting straight back to the vet and asking if it would be better to take your dog off the medication and see if the symptoms improve.

As for going on holiday, I personally wouldn't worry too much about putting such a lot on your friends, as long as they know the worst-case scenarios and are happy to handle them, but more about how you would feel if your dog was really poorly and maybe even had to be put down and you weren't there with him. But that's getting ahead of ourselves a bit - hopefully you'll find a simple, treatable cause for his problems.