Emx93
Forum Donator 2023/24
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So its 2 days short of a year since fluffy was spayed. while the surgery went great she was very poorly post op as I'm sure you can all remember. A couple of months post spay she got a huge hernia in her spay site, when they went in to repair it they found a lot of adhesions so they managed to fix the hernia but couldn't repair the muscle or something as it was too badly damaged. A few weeks after this we found out her friend had an inoperable tumour, fluffy was very protective of her friend during her illness and we put her odd behaviour down to her friends illness. just before her friend died fluffy went off it completely too and was checked by a vet and reassured all was fine. After her friend died fluffy got worse just sitting in a corner, loosing weight etc. she had a string of unsuccessful dates where her fear aggression kicked in and she became very aggressive, but eventually bonded with two very shy unthreatening baby girls. She kept getting weird white bits down below which we would treat with a week of metacam... whenever she was on metacam she would be 100percent herself. At this point a month after bonding with new healthy friends she would still not seem right when not on metacam so id had enough of not knowing what was going on and pushed to get a vet appointment and have tests done to find out what was wrong. Turns out its her adhesions causing pain, what a blooming nightmare as now all I can think is has she been in pain the past year and weve been oblivious? if so no wonder she felt threatened by other pigs! She's totally fine now she's on long term metacam we just need to feed her up as she's a bit bony. but how could I have not known? no one said they'd cause her pain, she was 2 and otherwise healthy so she shouldn't have a pain issue but I cant stop feeling awful about it! sorry for the rant just wasn't something I knew could cause a problem so may be worth bearing in mind if you have a post op pig that's just not themselves months down the line... its obvious now we know, if I'm late giving metacam shell be all sulky in a corner and teeth chatter at me when i go to pick her up.
So its 2 days short of a year since fluffy was spayed. while the surgery went great she was very poorly post op as I'm sure you can all remember. A couple of months post spay she got a huge hernia in her spay site, when they went in to repair it they found a lot of adhesions so they managed to fix the hernia but couldn't repair the muscle or something as it was too badly damaged. A few weeks after this we found out her friend had an inoperable tumour, fluffy was very protective of her friend during her illness and we put her odd behaviour down to her friends illness. just before her friend died fluffy went off it completely too and was checked by a vet and reassured all was fine. After her friend died fluffy got worse just sitting in a corner, loosing weight etc. she had a string of unsuccessful dates where her fear aggression kicked in and she became very aggressive, but eventually bonded with two very shy unthreatening baby girls. She kept getting weird white bits down below which we would treat with a week of metacam... whenever she was on metacam she would be 100percent herself. At this point a month after bonding with new healthy friends she would still not seem right when not on metacam so id had enough of not knowing what was going on and pushed to get a vet appointment and have tests done to find out what was wrong. Turns out its her adhesions causing pain, what a blooming nightmare as now all I can think is has she been in pain the past year and weve been oblivious? if so no wonder she felt threatened by other pigs! She's totally fine now she's on long term metacam we just need to feed her up as she's a bit bony. but how could I have not known? no one said they'd cause her pain, she was 2 and otherwise healthy so she shouldn't have a pain issue but I cant stop feeling awful about it! sorry for the rant just wasn't something I knew could cause a problem so may be worth bearing in mind if you have a post op pig that's just not themselves months down the line... its obvious now we know, if I'm late giving metacam shell be all sulky in a corner and teeth chatter at me when i go to pick her up.