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Betsy's lost weight - vet visit Friday

Vet said that her tummy felt a bit gassy and she didn't start to gain weight until I syringe fed her. She lost weight for about 6 weeks. The vet said if I wanted to I could put my electric toothbrush on her tummy to try to get some of the gas moving. Haven't had a chance yet may do it in a mo. She said to use an old toothbrush head!
 
:yikes: My goodness Jacky - you really have been going through it!! Sorry i've only just caught up with this thread, not been on the forum much lately - hopefully the Beautiful Betsy :wub: doesn't need any invasive surgery & everyone here sending healing vibes for a full & speedy recovery. Keep up the good work, Betsy should be giving you a badge for being a top piggy slave.... or maybe the poops were a more personal creation to thank you? ;)

Come on Betsy fill your tummy & poop for England, get well soon :nod: x

@Merab's Slave aww Heather that's such a lovely gesture, so kind of you to offer to take care of her if needed :luv:
Betsy must know how much we all think of her :hug:xx
 
In the bloat post on health there is a link to the guinea lynx hand massage guide. I have a toothbrush that I use while feeding but I find the hand massage works better (Zigg gets bloat as did Jet).
 
Aw Betsy! :( I hope it turns out to be nothing serious, me and my lot send their love.

Bramble says her favourite weight gain food it grated carrot and beetroot with wheat bran mixed in, she likes it because I hate grating vegetables, I'm sure! Although if you're frantically checking for poop maybe leave out the beetroot, the amount of near heart attacks ive had from sudden red poops or pees is unreal :doh:
 
Glad Betsy is feeling a little better. Always makes me smile to see a piggy doing ok. Thought it was only me who was mad enough to be delighted by normal poo.
:nod: Hugs to you both. Keep eating Betsy.xx
 
Oh Betsy. Do hope you are on the road to recovery. Get well soon. :hug:
 
Betsy did lots of poops and wees overnight and this morning and I have hand massaged her tummy which I found quite relaxing but Betsy HATED and was complaining, moving around and was generally telling me she was NOT HAPPY about. I took this as a good sign that she still has some fight left in her! After speaking to the Roxanne the vet, Betsy is now with her friends during the day and in the hospital cage at night. Since Betsy is pooping and weeing, Roxanne thinks that there is no blockage and also as there is no discharge either that Pyometra can be ruled out and that Betsy just has a bit of a gassy tum. I have to keep a close eye until Thursday and continue with the syringe feeding morning and night, the tummy massage and the Metacam, oh and the weighing (which I forgot to do this morning :oops:)
 
Always a good sign if they’re complaining about treatment! Fingers crossed she continues to improve and was just scaring you
 
Glad to hear that Beautiful Betsy is better this morning and it’s probably nothing serious.
It must be a piggy slave thing to get excited by poop:)
Hope she continues to improve
 
Let me know on Friday what happens Betsy all 6 of mine are See-sawing with there weight, they are eating well. Pooping & weeing fine. It's just they are losing & gaining weight.
 
Sorry not had much time to catch up with stuff I have to get my house ready for a valuation tomorrow so we can decide to move in the imminent future or in two years when Tom has finished 6th Form. I was up at 5.30 this morning too! Don't seem to have got very far .....

Anyway, Betsy is in the hospital cage at night so I can "monitor her output" as the vet so eloquently put it and she is in with her friends during the day. It was so sweet this morning when I popped Betsy in the run, Velvet immediately touched noses with her to say "hello and how are you?:wub: Betsy still has a bit of a distended tum and I am massaging that after I have syringe fed her which I am doing 3 times a day. The Emeraid has now arrived and fortunately Betsy likes it. She only took about 7ml of it though (when I was syringing mushed up pellets she would take up to 20ml at any one time). I am hoping that this is because she is feeding herself more now that she is starting to feel a bit better and is now out of pain as she is on Metacam. She is still weeing and pooping overnight which is good:D. The vet has asked me to speak to her again tomorrow morning at 9am to see where we go from there.
 
Emeraid is MUCH more calorific and filling than mushed pellets or Critical Care. I would say 7 mls is a really good Emeraid volume, and she would have been felling very full. The most Emeraid I ever managed to feed any one piggy in any sitting was an astonishing 15mls (she was an absolute gannet). Most others manage 5 - 7 mls and then are stuffed.
 
Glad she is doing well and liked her Emeraid. Hopefully she'll feel better soon!
 
That’s good news she is taking her emeraid, good little girl. Hopefully that will plump her up some :nod:
 
She's still not a happy piggy when I massage her tummy though!:no: I keep telling her its for her own good!:)
 
Just had Betsy out for a late night tummy massage and cuddle and her tummy is not distended anymore!:yahoo: She is now happily having a cuddle with my eldest son and is almost a puddle piggie:wub:. I'm so pleased for her:nod:. I'm very pleased she appears to be all better before I go away for the weekend. :)
 
Thanks! Now I just need to find what she ate to make her bloated:hmm:I gave her nothing new:hmm:
 
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