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Interstitial cystitis

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Veggies Galore said:
... And I appreciate it's a worrying time for anyone going through this.

My boar Reuben had IC for 2 years before it cleared. It's very distressing to see blood in urine... My vet explained it was Sterile IC..... Therefore, antibiotics wouldn't work.
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Yes my vet explained that too :) Emma had IC for 3 years and Ellen 2.5 years but Ellen has gone 10 months with no symptoms so we stopped IC treatment 10 months ago assuming it had stopped but them she started weeing blood again two weeks ago and a sample showed blood and infection so she’s been treated for a uti. If the symptoms come back now the antibiotics have finished, I’ll have to start he IC treatment again. It’s such a difficult and frustrating thing to diagnose. Both Emma and Ellen had urine cultures, ultrasounds and xrays done to rule out all the nasties before IC was diagnosed
 
Claire W said:
Yes my vet explained that too. Emma had IC for 3 years and Ellen 2.5 years but Ellen has gone 10 months with no symptoms so we stopped IC treatment 10 months ago assuming it had stopped but them she started weeing blood again two weeks ago and a sample showed blood and infection so she’s been treated for a uti. If the symptoms come back now the antibiotics have finished, I’ll have to start he IC treatment again.
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Such an awkward problem bladders are
 
IC is really tricky, one of our first piggies had it, we had to use cystease and metacam longterm along with cartophen injections
 
sport_billy said:
IC is really tricky, one of our first piggies had it, we had to use cystease and metacam longterm along with cartophen injections
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Did it go away before the end of the pigs life? Something must be going good with dot because the last two days shes very active and just alert really, back to eating hay with some agression lol. Last night she was head butting my phone out of my hand to ask for more grass
 
No sadly not, but she was happy and eating. We just managed her pain
 
you have one of the best vets in the country on the case, so that is worth something remember that
 
Dot is probably on her best behaviour and excited about meeting her man! How long until bonding? Stay positive! X
 
sport_billy said:
you have one of the best vets in the country on the case, so that is worth something remember that
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Yea so lucky, my first few years of having guinea pigs i didnt even know that i lived 20 minutes from cat and rabbit, i was using a normal vets and had to hope their exotics vet was on shift. Only good thing is they were open 24/7.

I said that wrong. I meant also i didnt even know they existed because of the name, and i hadnt joined here
 
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