It started with smaller dots and black areas in her eye ~2 years ago:
Since then we took her to the doctor many times to make sure she is okay. He told us that its all right, simply she has more pigments in here eyes, and its okay as long as there are no fluids.
Over time a lot of black areas started appearing in her eyes, and I started nagging the doctor. He still said that its just pigments, but if we wanted to be sure, we should take her to a detailed eye examination.
When we noticed that her pupils got deformed, and didn't respond to light like her healthy one we immediatelly took her to an eye examination, and they told us she has a high possibility for diffuse iris melanoma, which can spread to parts of her belly and lungs. They also told us, there is a chance that there is nothing wrong, but there is no way to make sure. They can try to get some fluids from her eye, but that doesn't give an accurate representation.
We decided to have her eye removed, because we think its better to have 0 chance for diffuse iris melanoma and it spreading than anything more than 0. Especially in this case where its very likely. As far as I understood even if we knew this sooner there weren't anything we could do.
This was a very hard decision for us, having such a radical surgery on our first cat feels depressing, and the chance that we do this for nothing makes things even harder. We saw on the internet that one eyed cats gets used to the new situation quickly, but that doesn't fully reassure us.
I'd like to ask you to share your experience with cats you know that had diffuse iris melanoma, or one eyed kittens. We would like to make sure she feels loved and can live a full life after this. Thanks in advance! Make sure you check your cats health regularly.
Our cat had another cancer, so I hope it's ok if I chip in. We also went to the vet like 25x times because he didn't eat and they always said do not worry. Imagine to have a hungry cat at home which can't eat, it was like hell! And the vets didn't believe us, they always said he doesn't look that bad. Until he looked really bad in the end and had tumors all over his tummy.
I would also take the eye out, because cats adapt so quickly and seeing your cat die from cancer is horrible. I hope it's benigne in best case and in case of melanoma it hasn't spread!
If things go downhill, you can contact me, because we now got a lot of experience with terminally ill cats unfortunately. In short what worked best were full spectrum CBD troplets. Our cat didn't like opiates, but the CBD troplets chilled him and he got some pain relieve. Although he didn't want to take them ;-)
So I hope you'll never get in this situation but CBD troplets also worked for us after a small eye surgery. Your kitty is absolutely stunning and I hope everything will go well! Best of luck!
Thank you very much, and I'm sad to hear you had to go through all this pain.
I also had one doctor told us that she has no problem at all. He said if she can see, and there are no fluids coming out of her eye, than we are overreacting. At the place they told us its melanoma a specialized eye doctor examined her with multiple tools.
Thanks for the reply, sometimes I just have to talk about my beloved cat.
Your cat is lucky to have such good owners who will fight for them! From the other replies I figured that hopefully everything will go well and you can enjoy much more time with her! Our cat's disease made our relationship so much more intense and loving even through all the hardship!