Looking for some advice as I don’t think my vet really has a clue what’s wrong with my girl.
She had lost a lot of weight and the vet has seen her a number of times and has ground her teeth back, both the back and front teeth and says that she was unable to find any real dental issues.
This was done on Friday and since then she’s been back three times this week.
They sent her home with a dose of metacam of 0.14ml. We have since then increased the dose to around 0.8mg/kg thinking she was in pain. We have increased the dose further to the max of 1.5mg/kg in the hope that if she was in pain this would help her eat.
On Sunday we noticed that she had a lump along the right jaw bone. We hadn’t noticed this before so now have no idea if this was the original problem or if the lump is due to an infection after the surgery in her teeth or if she has an abscess from a damaged tooth.
They started her on Co-trimoxazole, but reading here that doesn’t seem to be much use and so far has made little to no difference in the size of the lump or her appetite.
I took her back to the vet today after reading various post on here and they reluctantly prescribed Marbocyl and basically said they have no idea what is wrong with her and have no idea why she is not eating saying it could be many things including cancer.
We are syringe feeding her but she is very reluctant and it takes a lot to get the food and water in her.
We have also tried poo soup today in the hope it may help her stomach start working again. I also have a pre/probiotic with Vit-c on the way tomorrow.
Before syringe feeding I always try her with a few bits like spinach or Kale leaves or fresh grass.
This evening she ate one spinach leaf but seemed to have to rip at it instead of cutting it, and seemed to take along time to chew it. As I’m writing this we are syringe feeding her but she’s taken a real interest in stripping the skin off a banana that was on the table which she kept running off to chew on. It’s the first real food she’s eaten by herself in days, wasn’t sure if maybe the poo soup earlier today was starting to help.
I’m confused if it is her jaw/teeth hurting as she hasn’t had any metacam in 12 hours and doesn’t seem to be in pain while chewing on the banana skin.
she also tried to eat the grass, but picked it up and again didn’t seem to be able to turn it in her mouth and feed it in like guinea pigs do, and finally gave up.
She’s constantly grinding her teeth, generally sits in the corner of the cage, will not eat and haven’t seen her drink from the bottle.
At a serious loss as to what to do with her and as I said the vets have no idea.
I’m thinking of bringing her to Northampton to see the vets at the The cat and rabbit care clinic as I read Simon is somewhat of an expert with Guinea pigs.
Does anyone know how easy it is to get an appointment and what they charge for a consultation?
If anyone has had similar experience or can share knowledge around the loss of appetite and how to get her interest in food back I would be very grateful.
Thanks
She had lost a lot of weight and the vet has seen her a number of times and has ground her teeth back, both the back and front teeth and says that she was unable to find any real dental issues.
This was done on Friday and since then she’s been back three times this week.
They sent her home with a dose of metacam of 0.14ml. We have since then increased the dose to around 0.8mg/kg thinking she was in pain. We have increased the dose further to the max of 1.5mg/kg in the hope that if she was in pain this would help her eat.
On Sunday we noticed that she had a lump along the right jaw bone. We hadn’t noticed this before so now have no idea if this was the original problem or if the lump is due to an infection after the surgery in her teeth or if she has an abscess from a damaged tooth.
They started her on Co-trimoxazole, but reading here that doesn’t seem to be much use and so far has made little to no difference in the size of the lump or her appetite.
I took her back to the vet today after reading various post on here and they reluctantly prescribed Marbocyl and basically said they have no idea what is wrong with her and have no idea why she is not eating saying it could be many things including cancer.
We are syringe feeding her but she is very reluctant and it takes a lot to get the food and water in her.
We have also tried poo soup today in the hope it may help her stomach start working again. I also have a pre/probiotic with Vit-c on the way tomorrow.
Before syringe feeding I always try her with a few bits like spinach or Kale leaves or fresh grass.
This evening she ate one spinach leaf but seemed to have to rip at it instead of cutting it, and seemed to take along time to chew it. As I’m writing this we are syringe feeding her but she’s taken a real interest in stripping the skin off a banana that was on the table which she kept running off to chew on. It’s the first real food she’s eaten by herself in days, wasn’t sure if maybe the poo soup earlier today was starting to help.
I’m confused if it is her jaw/teeth hurting as she hasn’t had any metacam in 12 hours and doesn’t seem to be in pain while chewing on the banana skin.
she also tried to eat the grass, but picked it up and again didn’t seem to be able to turn it in her mouth and feed it in like guinea pigs do, and finally gave up.
She’s constantly grinding her teeth, generally sits in the corner of the cage, will not eat and haven’t seen her drink from the bottle.
At a serious loss as to what to do with her and as I said the vets have no idea.
I’m thinking of bringing her to Northampton to see the vets at the The cat and rabbit care clinic as I read Simon is somewhat of an expert with Guinea pigs.
Does anyone know how easy it is to get an appointment and what they charge for a consultation?
If anyone has had similar experience or can share knowledge around the loss of appetite and how to get her interest in food back I would be very grateful.
Thanks
