Hi Guys my little guy is 3.5 years old he started losing a little weight 8 months ago, over the course of about 6 months he lost 100g he went from 1260-1120g.
At first we thought it was because he had a new cage mate and was using more energy, when it got to the 100g mark I took him to the vet who said his tummy was tender and gave him a shot of metacam he perked up and went back up to 1160g.
A few months later he lost weight again went down to 1060 took him to the vets they could find nothing wrong, gave him some childrens liquid nurofen he went back up to 1120g.
A few months later he stopped eating anything except fresh veggies went down to 970g took him to the vet again they could find nothing wrong. Gave him nurofen, infacol, gripe water and buscopan over the course of a week to see if anything helped. (one treatment a night) he picked up after the buscopan back to 1120g
5 weeks later he started losing weight again this time he was still eating tried the treatments above again, nothing worked weight went down to 980g.
Managed to find a vet who had trained with Peter Gurney and took him there (thank you TGPF) this was last week. They kept him overnight and ran loads of tests on him.
His xrays show 2 stones stuck in the tubes between his kidney and his bladder one in each side and another 2 stones forming again 1 in each kidney.
His blood tests show he has kidney and liver damage and where the stones are at the moment they are inoperable, he is home with us now for however long we have left.
We are treating him with hydrangea root tincture and chanca powder plus, he is also taking 0.9ml septrim twice a day for 2 weeks and fibreplex probiotic. I am also syringing him extra food and water although he fights the syringe we are getting better at it.
I wanted to let everyone know that apart from losing weight and occasionaly looking puffed up there was no other indication he was ill.
He did not wheek when weeing, there was no blood in urine and even when the vet felt him all over he gave no sign that he was in pain anywhere.
His weight fell to 925g I have now got him up to 943g he has lost about a quarter of his weight since I first noticed the weight loss.
He is still wheeking and flinging himself at cage door for veggies, he still comes out for a run around during playtime and apart from eating more slowly than usual and sitting looking puffy you wouldnt know there was anything wrong.
The vet has advised against metacam and nurofen as pain killers due to the liver damage but has said it will be a judgement call if we feel he is in too much pain.
Touchwood at the moment he doesnt appear to have any pain just maybe a little uncomfortable, he is still weeing which is good.
As he has not been eating as much as normal his poops are tiny and sticky but he is still passing them. We are giving him a small dose of metatone to help his appetite after checking with a rodentologist who advised the benefit of the good stuff in it outweights the small amount of calcium.
Sorry for the long post if anyone can think of anything we are not doing or a pain killer that wont effect his liver please let me know.
Thanks for Reading
At first we thought it was because he had a new cage mate and was using more energy, when it got to the 100g mark I took him to the vet who said his tummy was tender and gave him a shot of metacam he perked up and went back up to 1160g.
A few months later he lost weight again went down to 1060 took him to the vets they could find nothing wrong, gave him some childrens liquid nurofen he went back up to 1120g.
A few months later he stopped eating anything except fresh veggies went down to 970g took him to the vet again they could find nothing wrong. Gave him nurofen, infacol, gripe water and buscopan over the course of a week to see if anything helped. (one treatment a night) he picked up after the buscopan back to 1120g
5 weeks later he started losing weight again this time he was still eating tried the treatments above again, nothing worked weight went down to 980g.
Managed to find a vet who had trained with Peter Gurney and took him there (thank you TGPF) this was last week. They kept him overnight and ran loads of tests on him.
His xrays show 2 stones stuck in the tubes between his kidney and his bladder one in each side and another 2 stones forming again 1 in each kidney.
His blood tests show he has kidney and liver damage and where the stones are at the moment they are inoperable, he is home with us now for however long we have left.
We are treating him with hydrangea root tincture and chanca powder plus, he is also taking 0.9ml septrim twice a day for 2 weeks and fibreplex probiotic. I am also syringing him extra food and water although he fights the syringe we are getting better at it.
I wanted to let everyone know that apart from losing weight and occasionaly looking puffed up there was no other indication he was ill.
He did not wheek when weeing, there was no blood in urine and even when the vet felt him all over he gave no sign that he was in pain anywhere.
His weight fell to 925g I have now got him up to 943g he has lost about a quarter of his weight since I first noticed the weight loss.
He is still wheeking and flinging himself at cage door for veggies, he still comes out for a run around during playtime and apart from eating more slowly than usual and sitting looking puffy you wouldnt know there was anything wrong.
The vet has advised against metacam and nurofen as pain killers due to the liver damage but has said it will be a judgement call if we feel he is in too much pain.
Touchwood at the moment he doesnt appear to have any pain just maybe a little uncomfortable, he is still weeing which is good.
As he has not been eating as much as normal his poops are tiny and sticky but he is still passing them. We are giving him a small dose of metatone to help his appetite after checking with a rodentologist who advised the benefit of the good stuff in it outweights the small amount of calcium.
Sorry for the long post if anyone can think of anything we are not doing or a pain killer that wont effect his liver please let me know.
Thanks for Reading
