Hello, I'm new to this website and the reason I joined is because my guinea pig, FLump is very ill and I need all the advice and help I can get. He has bladder stones and I am unsure on what to do... Go to my profile and click on my post 'bladder stones' if you have any information or can help in how to care for Flump I would appreciate it if you could give me your advice and help, thank you x
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Hello, I have just made this account to find more information about my guinea pig, Flump. Last Friday i took him into the vets as he was squeaking whilst urinating blood. The vet gave us some antibiotics called Baytril to give him as she said he did not have stones, it was just a UTI and to come back in a weeks time. Unfortunately, Flump then stopped eating and drank very little so I took him back to the vets 2 days later. A different vet gave him an X-ray and noticed he has stones in his bladder and that I had to decide on whether to operate or put him down. I know deep down I do not want to put him down but I can't see him go through any more pain. So I went back in to discuss it further and I was seen by a different vet who seen I was distraught about the decision I was having to make. He gave me a medication called Metacam and said to give Flump 3 drops daily for 3 days. He told me by the third day if there was no improvement I would have to put Flump out of his misery. I have had Flump for 4 years and I would do anything for his happiness.
Basically is there anything else I could do to help Flump get any better apart from an operation as I know the stones may come back and do not want to put him through the pain.
I am giving him unsweetened cranberry juice by a syringe and syringing water into him as he is hardly drinking.
Please, if you have any other ideas which could save Flump please let me know, he's only got 2 days.
(original message added by mod):
Hello, I have just made this account to find more information about my guinea pig, Flump. Last Friday i took him into the vets as he was squeaking whilst urinating blood. The vet gave us some antibiotics called Baytril to give him as she said he did not have stones, it was just a UTI and to come back in a weeks time. Unfortunately, Flump then stopped eating and drank very little so I took him back to the vets 2 days later. A different vet gave him an X-ray and noticed he has stones in his bladder and that I had to decide on whether to operate or put him down. I know deep down I do not want to put him down but I can't see him go through any more pain. So I went back in to discuss it further and I was seen by a different vet who seen I was distraught about the decision I was having to make. He gave me a medication called Metacam and said to give Flump 3 drops daily for 3 days. He told me by the third day if there was no improvement I would have to put Flump out of his misery. I have had Flump for 4 years and I would do anything for his happiness.
Basically is there anything else I could do to help Flump get any better apart from an operation as I know the stones may come back and do not want to put him through the pain.
I am giving him unsweetened cranberry juice by a syringe and syringing water into him as he is hardly drinking.
Please, if you have any other ideas which could save Flump please let me know, he's only got 2 days.
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