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I just checked on him and found him face-deep in hay. I'm so happy I almost burst out crying, but my flatmate would rip it out of me because I try to let him think I'm the tough tomboy girl who he lives with...

ah, screw it.

Bailey Fanclub members: time to sob your hay loving hearts out! He's eating!
 
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A stroke can be caused by either a blood clot or a burst blood vessel which allows blood into the brain tissue. Aspirin would not be appropriate.
Could he have had an ear infection? If he is already back to walking in a straight line it would either indicate a small stroke and a very quick recovery time or else an initial mis-diagnosis
 
AP - I'm not sure that he could have had an ear infection that would have caused such dramatic crash - recover behaviour. He was given metacam and antibiotics and I'm assuming they gave him high doses of both given that he was unresponsive (tapping him in the eye didn't cause his eyes to twitch but they twitched on their own when I didn't tap the corner of his eyes. I thought he had died because I had thought that no response to this meant he was brain dead, but he could have not been in a state to notice?)

Is 12 hours a quick recovery?
 
I've just caught up with this thread and I am delighted to see just how well he is doing. He's an incredibly handsome pig!

I took lots of photos of my Charlie the day after he was diagnosed with the kidney tumour. I think, however many pigtures you have of them, it's never enough. I still want to include Charlie, Tuppy and Lottie in my photo shoots each month.
 
Fantastic news and I'm delighted to hear Bailey is recovering well.

It's not just vets that are sometimes stumped by symptoms. Even human doctors sometimes end up going for the "let's just try everything and hope something works," particularly when a person is really ill, the symptoms could point to any number of causes or they are not responding to treatment given. It sounds like Bailey was SO poorly that it was worth trying almost anything, and clearly something worked (or at least did little harm and allowed him to recover himself - perhaps will never know.)

The important thing is he's better and getting back to his old self. Such brilliant news!
 
In my experience with pigs that have had strokes the "recovery" time has either been in the order of days, or else a slight improvement. I have never seen one that recovered in 12 hours.
Don't forget that pigs do not have a blink reflex, you can touch the eye and get no response.
 
Ah, sorry - it wasn't 12 hours, it was 24 hours.

10pm - 10pm isn't 12 hours. Holy crap.

I'm sure guinea pigs do have an eye reflex, I've watched a pig being put to sleep and during the sedation phase she used the eye relfex and the pig responded until after a period of time.
 
So glad to here that Bailey is getting better and stronger every second.
He looks absolutely gorgeous a very handsome chap.

Our damn piggys always make us worry! :)
 
I am so pleased Bailey is home with you and seems to be getting better. Its always so upsetting for us as rescues once we have rehomed a piggy to find that it was/is poorly. He could not have had a better owner.

Love Helen.
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