I went to order some for our supplies at work and looks like the price of the triple antibiotic eye ointment went from $10ish to $60ish- OUCH!!! What the heck happened? And how can the triple eye ointment with dex or cortisone still be around the $10 while the other has shot up???
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say what now?
Bacitracin-neomycin-polymixin ophthalmic ointment is $9.99 here.[/QUOTE]
When you try to order it though- it’s unavailable- it’s says until 6/14 but I imagine when they put it back up it will be at a much higher price
Everywhere I’ve found it at the old price says they no longer carry it or it’s on backorder
How odd.
Well Neosporin has the same active ingredients, juts a thicker base. I wonder if it’s possible to use that on eyes?
The price went up for vets about 4 months ago, not sure why.
My vets have been having them done at compound pharmacies since last year because of this. It was still $12 a tube when I bought one a month ago.
Now that they are back on the market, it is not legal to get them compounded.
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My vets have been having them done at compound pharmacies since last year because of this. It was still $12 a tube when I bought one a month ago.[/QUOTE]
Yikes!
I was told it does not have the same carrier and therefore heal a horse’s eye.
Yep… we aren’t ordering anymore because it’s just way too expensive… Will have to use another antibiotic ointment 
My vet gave me terramycin last time–she said it was comparable. I know it is what I got last year from the small animal vet for a cat with conjunctivitis.
Terramycin is fine, and costs about $12 for a tiny tube, I got mine at the feed store, vet says it will work fine.
My DH was visiting his elderly relative in a small town
a couple years ago. He somehow got a scratch on his
eye. He found a tube of triple antibiotic ointment (the
stuff you put on cuts) in the medicine cabinet that was
new. Checked the ingredients and found they were
the same as what he used on his gelding. Bland base.
Put it in his eye (yes, I know but…), healed right up
very promptly without any problem.
A vet once mentioned he had a client who put Today
mastitis medicine in a horse eye when a problem
happened out it back country. Horse eye looked fully
recovered when client got home and had vet check it.
ummm…for my eyes or those of my horse I think I would ask a vet or a doc before I put neosporin in even if the active ingredients are the same. $50 a tube or no the risk of a blind horse is not appealing. No offense to anyone but I am not risking eyesight on testimonials.
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one day my horse was squinting his eye and had a VERY slight cloudy ribbon in his pupil (the only way i noticed it i put his eye a certain way in the light)
i called the vet to come out and she said she could either come out right then or wait till the morning (since it was almost 10 and the eye didn’t seem to be too bad)
i asked her what the best thing to do was and she told me that she would be out first thing in the morning and to put
Neosporin original the one WITHOUT Steroids in his eye.
she clarified that
putting steroids or anything with steroids into an eye with an corneal ulcer will severely damage the eye to the point of losing it BE CAREFUL what you put in an eye when it is injured***
so i did it… figured the vet would know.
Industry wide shortage on most generic and brand prescription opthalmic and topical gels/ointments. Manufacturing process has been inturupted by massive mechanical problems at 4 major locations.
You will see HUGE price increases and shortages. Just got out of a meeting at work on this. (Im a pharmacuetical rep for a generic distributer)
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The price went up for vets about 4 months ago, not sure why.[/QUOTE]
They did this a few years ago too but there was a huge outcry. Basically, they figured out we use a lot of it and decided they didn’t charge enough. Couple that with manufacturing issues and you get the 600% markup.
I’ve heard that the human label stuff has gone up too but only a little bit (not 600%)
Yes, our small animal clinic has stopped ordering it. Now I believe they use Terramycin in its place. Too bad, hoping the price will come down.
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I went to order some for our supplies at work and looks like the price of the triple antibiotic eye ointment went from $10ish to $60ish- OUCH!!! What the heck happened? And how can the triple eye ointment with dex or cortisone still be around the $10 while the other has shot up???[/QUOTE]
My vet told me about this 2-3 months ago, in reference the the eye ointment. Has since complained that the price of other things he uses a lot of has shot up, too. Some stuff he can’t even get at any price.
All the eye oinments are out of sight. Even bland ointment for lube with nothing in it.
Alot of drugs are going that way. The lists of drugs on shortage or not being manufactured, etc is getting longer and longer and longer. Alot of them are day in/day out drugs at that.
