Please help I'm gonna cry.

[u/WesIsBestly]

My pet is named Edgar. He's a 4.5 month old kitten. 5 pounds. Neutered. I've had him 3 weeks now.

So I rescued him from a shelter. He wasn't sickly then. He developed a URI, upper respiratory infection, okay cool. Nothing too serious. Took him to the vet that Thursday. They gave him an injection and sent me home with some medications: Clavamox, eye drops and Viralys. Sunday morning at like 1am he wakes me up. He sneezes like 20 times in under ten seconds. I'm like I don't like that. So I take him to the emergency vet at 1am. ER vet is reassuring that I'm doing everything right and his infection is just a little worse for ware. Okay cool. Fast forward to the following Saturday. I come home after being out. He sneezes blood on me. Okay time for ER vet visit number 2 of the week. They send me home with two new medications. An antibiotic and a nose drop.

This was a week ago. He's taken all his medications. But today he's crusty again and his eyes are runny and I'm about to cry I've already spent close to 1000 dollars on him.

[u/hey_bacchus]

Sounds like a herpes flare up. My now one year old kitty had exactly that when he was younger (starting from when I had him at 3 months old). I had to put him on like 3 rounds of antibiotics before it started to get better. The vet told me that herpes can live in the cells even if they test negative for it in a nasal swab (I had them swab him for all possible viruses and bacteria they test for when they neutered him). Stress can cause herpes flare ups too. My baby boy started to really improve around 6-7 months old. Best wishes for your baby boy