[soulturtle]

...10 times no vet knows what it is.? When I got her, her ears where black, and looked like mushrooms growing inside. The vets scope would barely fit in her ears. Since I have had her I have tried different meds from the vet....some helped for a while, but it always comes back..they bother her sooo much she scratches them open and they bleed........and she shakes her head very frequently.she has good and bad days...she is an older cat....I curently use surlan from the vet when it gets really bad, but I want to find something to solve the problem. I have changed all four of my cats to a raw meat and bone diet....that improved her ears to a point but still has not solved the problem.please help and give me any suggestions or share similar stories.All I want is to releive her discomfort..thank you for your input...

[Catlover]

Try using baby oil on a cotton ball...It will soften the gunk up, so you can wipe it out easier...Plus it won't burn your cats ears...

[VCJ]

has the vet checked her ears for ear mites? they sometimes cause these types of problems. It can be solved with a solvent provided by the vet.

[xaronne1971]

ooooh poor cat! my sister's kitten has a similar problem. she took her to the vet who prescribed her an ointment, but the infection travels from one ear to the other and has not gone away completely. she shakes her head and tries scratching too and we feel so sorry for her. hope your cat gets better too. xx

[Andy]

This may sound a little over the top, but I think it will bring an end to your cat's ear troubles.It looks like it's time to take her into a university vet clinic. If the vets you've been seeing ten times can't help maybe it's time to see what the vets and professors at a place like a veterinary school have to say.They tend to been at the very top of insight into animal health, treatments, issues, etc. Thus, they may know just what this is and offer a solution that will ease or eliminate your cat's troubles.Hopefully your not to far from a respect school with a leading vet program.Hope this helps and good luck with your kitty.

[cathy]

There is a possibility that people should have left the ears alone and the cat would have eventually stopped scratching at it. The scratching part is unusual for what I am suggesting it might be. Cauliflower ears can happen in cats. This is from their ears getting hurt when they crawl into a space too small for them, that their whiskers tell them not too go into or they get their ears injured in a fight with another cat. The inside tissue tends to balloon out . Because it is new to them they scratch at first and then get used to it and leave it alone, and live their lives with this. The inside of the ears looks like two little balloons. But infection and who knows what else could have happened to them if people have been interfering. Human boxers used to get similiar ear problems, and this is where it was named the cauliflower ears. They used to just leave these in humans too but maybe they discouvered a cure for the humans. Of course everything is staged these days and they are not really boxing in reality as much as they used to when boxing first began. Take the cat to a more knowledgeable vet fast!