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as a last resort, they can stitch the eyelids together to help healing if it's really bad.  Oreo had one and we had to take her in weekly to have it debrided, I believe it took about 6 weeks to totally heal, but it didn't seem to bother her much after we started the meds.  Hers started with a cornea scratch too.  The vet gave us drops with steroids and once the ulcer started, the drops made the ulcer worse instead of better.  Sending good thoughts your way.

with our rough playing bulldogs.  Ester is just getting over an eye ulcer that she got from playing with Kohl. I was right there when it happened, he batted her with his paw and she tok off growling and chasing him and then came to me squinting.  Sticks can be a major problem and I do not let my dogs play with sticks or anything that is pointed for that reason.  I'm also worried they are going to shove a stick down their throat. Everyone of my dogs with the exception of Kohl has had an eye ulcer at one time or another.  I keep PolyBac Eye Ointment on hand at all times.

It will likely be fine,  he will need eye ointment or drops for at least 3 weeks.  Just depends on the severity of the scratch and ulcer.  Under rare cases it may require surgery.  My friend just had to have a eye graft done on her dog because she got an ulcer that healed but to where the opthamologist was comfortable with it and was worried if it every got poked again it would rupture.  She had an issue with dry eye from a nerve problem to begin with so it made it difficult for the eye to provide the proper healing on its own.  This is a rare case.

You never want to put a steroid drop into an eye that has an ulcer. 

He shouold be fine, may take at least a month for it to heal.

He ended up having surgery--they take a piece of the inner upper eyelid and sew it down over the ulcer and it stayed like that for six weeks, then they go in and cut the piece lose--like a permenant patch over the ulcer.  We were told it was really bad and that he was in danger of losing his sight it that eye.  He had the surgery done by an eye surgeon at Tufts.  He is on eye drops for the rest of his life due to the dry eye that resulted.  But it was been almost 3 years and he is fine now. 

Thanks for the moral support and great advice. I will definitely keep this all in mind! I kind of freaked myself out when I did some google searches on Eye ulcers and read that sometimes they have to sew the eyes shut so the ulcer can heal. The doctor said it looked like it's in the early stages and prescribed some ointments and artificial tears (there is some concern about him having reduced tear production.) But they didn't say anything about surgery. We have a followup appointment with an opthamologist on Thursday so hopefully we won't get bad news. Thankfully after a couple of antibiotic treatments his eye started opening. It's still pretty squinty and not near healed but at least he's starting to open it. Yesterday he was a bit lethargic, probably because he was in a lot of pain, but he's back to his playful self this morning.I'll keep everyone posted on his recovery and thought you'd enjoy some pix of him wearing the cone of shame. It was really just for show. The vet said to only use it if he's scratching his eye and he's been pretty well in that department so I think the cone will not be needed. But it was still a cute photo op. Thanks again!

because he was scratching at his eye. Poor guy didn't know how to drink water with it so we had to take it off for drinking but otherwise he handled it okay....

it sucks.  but it will heal...we tried sooo many different things and the neopolybac ointment did the trick.  good luck