baleofhay
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi all. I have a 5-6 yo desexed boar who had his teeth burred yesterday. He was diagnosed with dental disease grade 2 and treatment consisted of sedation and molar burring. In the lead up to that discovery, he had been losing weight, gaping and pawing at his mouth and seemed to be dropping food.
It's been 24 hours since the treatment and he doesn't seem quite right. He takes a few different medications for different reasons and gaped at the administration of them. His eating is as it has been. He also just seems a bit lethargic still. He takes tramadol x2, potassium citrate x2, hydrochlorothiazide x2 and meloxicam x1.
My (exotics) vet called me this morning to check in and I reported all of these with the promise to call again tomorrow if still like this as something feels not quite right.
This is my first piggy who has ever had dental disease. How quickly should he be back to normal if his molars were the only issue? Have you experienced other diseases causing gaping mouth, not eating?
I am now thinking that perhaps dental disease was an incidental finding and there's something else going on.
It's been 24 hours since the treatment and he doesn't seem quite right. He takes a few different medications for different reasons and gaped at the administration of them. His eating is as it has been. He also just seems a bit lethargic still. He takes tramadol x2, potassium citrate x2, hydrochlorothiazide x2 and meloxicam x1.
My (exotics) vet called me this morning to check in and I reported all of these with the promise to call again tomorrow if still like this as something feels not quite right.
This is my first piggy who has ever had dental disease. How quickly should he be back to normal if his molars were the only issue? Have you experienced other diseases causing gaping mouth, not eating?
I am now thinking that perhaps dental disease was an incidental finding and there's something else going on.
