Bladder stone surgery post Op

[KarenB]

Hi all
I am new to the forum and worried about my little post surgery for a bladder stone. It had migrated out of the bladder in to a secondary gland by the time it was removed.

He had been off his food for weeks and I had been back and forth checking teeth etc etc I had been supplementing him with critical care bit he was still loosing weight.
I took him to a specialist exotic vet who performed the surgery on Monday.
He spent Monday night at the vets and seemed fairly Bright when I got him home and started tucking in to his apple and cabbage.
Today however he seems to have gone backwards. He is eating nothing by himself and he's all squinty and it's a battle of wills getting any critical care in to him.

He still has some blood in his wee and his poos are tiny.
Has anyone had similar problems post surgery? I'm so worried about him!
He has his post op check Tomo

 

[Wiebke]

Hi all
I am new to the forum and worried about my little post surgery for a bladder stone. It had migrated out of the bladder in to a secondary gland by the time it was removed.

He had been off his food for weeks and I had been back and forth checking teeth etc etc I had been supplementing him with critical care bit he was still loosing weight.
I took him to a specialist exotic vet who performed the surgery on Monday.
He spent Monday night at the vets and seemed fairly Bright when I got him home and started tucking in to his apple and cabbage.
Today however he seems to have gone backwards. He is eating nothing by himself and he's all squinty and it's a battle of wills getting any critical care in to him.

He still has some blood in his wee and his poos are tiny.
Has anyone had similar problems post surgery? I'm so worried about him!
He has his post op check Tomo

Hi!

I am very sorry for the complications.

Please have your piggy vet checked as quickly as possible!

Between the bladder and the exit, there is no other gland the stone can pass into; but the urethra in boars has got an awkward inglenook in which a bladder stone that has been passed can easily fetch up; and it can unfortunately be extremely difficult to get the stone out from there.
It depends on the extent of the damage in the urethra (the tube that leads from the bladder to the exit), whether the stone has blocked the flow of urine into the bladder or not and how well your vet has got the stone out. The stone can also have caused trauma in the bladder itself.

Please step in with syringe feeding top up round the clock now; ideally every two hours around the clock (3 hours during the night).
You can use mushed up pellets in a pinch as long as you cut off the syringe tip as shown in the syringe feeding guide. Weigh daily at the same time in order to monitor the food intake. Since over 80% of what a piggy needs to eat in day should be hay, hay and more hay, you can't check it just by watching your piggy eat a little veg (which is about 15%).
The poo output reflects the intake from 1-2 days ago, depending on how fast the guts are working.

All our emergency and crisis care advice (including our illustrated syringe feeding guide) is bundled into this link here, so you have it all together:
Emergency, Crisis and Bridging Care until a Vet Appointment

But here are two more helpful guides:
Tips For Post-operative Care
Complete Syringe Feeding Guide

Fingers very firmly crossed for your little boy!

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