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Mollie Has Cystitis

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Awwww she's beautiful :love: One last thing, has she had an ultrasound scan recently? They don't need a GA for that & it might throw some light on what's going on in her womb xx
 
So sorry to read that Mollie is still having problems. I had 2 sows with ovarian cysts that had their ovaries removed by keyhole surgery rather than a full spay. They recovered very quickly and lived full and healthy lives x
 
after discussing it all again last week, mollie was booked in for a spay which she had this morning. it all went really well. was straight forward and only took 20/30 minutes. she came around quickly and was up and about again very soon. she's also eating small bits of veg and hay aswell. she had one syringe feed this afternoon and now she's back home again and we can continue with the feeding if needed.

she's a little bit quiet and a tad drowsy eyed but nothing major and nothing like i expected. we have to obviously keep her warm and dry (cage cleaning 2-3x a day) and monitor her tummy.

she's had some injections after the op but from tonight we can give her metacam and her usual cerenia, and then from tomorrow morning she's back on her diuretic aswell as the cerenia and metacam, and also an antibiotic for five days aswell (engemycin)

any issues we can ring them and we have taxi money set aside incase of an emergency aswell.

but so far she is doing well. fingers crossed she continues. x
 
biscandmatt said:
after discussing it all again last week, mollie was booked in for a spay which she had this morning. it all went really well. was straight forward and only took 20/30 minutes. she came around quickly and was up and about again very soon. she's also eating small bits of veg and hay aswell. she had one syringe feed this afternoon and now she's back home again and we can continue with the feeding if needed.

she's a little bit quiet and a tad drowsy eyed but nothing major and nothing like i expected. we have to obviously keep her warm and dry (cage cleaning 2-3x a day) and monitor her tummy.

she's had some injections after the op but from tonight we can give her metacam and her usual cerenia, and then from tomorrow morning she's back on her diuretic aswell as the cerenia and metacam, and also an antibiotic for five days aswell (engemycin)

any issues we can ring them and we have taxi money set aside incase of an emergency aswell.

but so far she is doing well. fingers crossed she continues. x
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Hope little Mollie Moo heals up soon x
 
thank you, so am i. it's horrible waiting for that phonecall.

she's been mainly resting since i posted, but she's also eaten some grass, bits of hay, one vitakraft pellet and a little more veg. and she's had her next lot of cerenia and metacam. she's not eating normally yet which i expected, but she's still got some appetite which is good. probably going to give her a syringe feed tonight and then check on her through the night aswell (although i probably won't beable to sleep anyway just incase she needs me!)

she's also urinating and doing some poops aswell which is really good :)

had a cuddle with her before to make sure she's keeping warm enough. she has a heat pad but she doesn't seem to like it! she's mainly keeping cosy on a piece of vetbed or in her cosy bed :luv:
 
some pics from the vets. they used this on the facebook page where mollie was awarded pet of the day :luv:

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mollie had a syringe feed around 11pm last night and i planned to give her another in the night maybe 4am-ish, but after the first one she was eating hay pretty much constantly and i decided to stay up to keep an eye on her anyway, so at 4am i gave them some lettuce instead and she ate her normal share of that. saw her have a drink from the bottle finally so i went to bed then. o/h got up early and she was up and about and waiting for breakfast! o/h gave them a slice of cucumber each and then some more hay and she ate all that normally.

i got up, she had her meds (she wasn't impressed with the engemycin!), we checked her tummy and all that looks fine for the moment. it actually doesn't look that obvious on her because she has black skin anyway, but you can still see the stitches. i cleaned the cage again and she's been pottering about with benjie as she normally would be since then. she's toileting aswell and i've seen her drinking from the bottles a bit more than yesterday when we got home aswell.

so she's on track and doing well :luv: will still keep a very close eye on her of course. we have to check her tummy daily at least and keep changing the bedding 2-3x a day for the next ten days aswell. they're mainly on newspaper and hay which i can easily just throw away and change as often as needed. i have put some fleece items in aswell and some vetbed. it's a bit of a challenge trying to wash and dry it!
 
Glad she doing well, continued love and vibes being sent x

She has a great Mum and Dad looking after her.
 
so it's 2.20am and i'm still up keeping an eye on mollie. she seemed a little bit quieter earlier so want to make sure she's ok and keeping warm enough and continuing to eat, drink and toilet.
 
quick update - i was up most of the night and mollie continued to be a bit quiet so we contacted the vets and left a message for the vet to ring when he could. mollie was very grumpy at meds time and then even more grumpy at being syringe fed (her hay intake went right down but she would eat some veg) - she even nipped me when we were checking her and obviously didn't want to be touched. her poops also went thin and less bulked up from the lack of fibre.

the vet thinks the timeline of it all makes sense for her being in discomfort (straight after she was on the stronger injected pain killer and then also we started her metacam from that night) so her metacam has been increased and split across three doses. this will be until she is acting ok again like she was initially.

i asked whether it could be because of the antibiotic which she started yesterday morning. he doesn't think it is but that you can never say never. so today we have missed the dose and he said because it is precaution, tomorrow it will be upto us to decide if she has it or not. depends how she is doing on the increased metacam and that she has had an injection of an antibiotic after the op, and yesterdays dose that we gave. so we'll decide tomorrow how we think she is doing.

today she weighed in at 865g (went into the op at 890g) so she's dropped a little but nothing too major and some of that weight i assume would have been what was removed from her anyway.
 
flintstones said:
I think your very wise to miss the antibiotic dose, to be honest if it's a precaution I'd be tempted not to give it. Hope Mollie feels better soon. X
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we've decided not to give it now and hope that she doesn't get an infection otherwise we'll be in big trouble and she will end up on one for alot longer. i hope the fact she has had two doses will be precaution enough.

i feel bad for her because she's totally lost her confidence with the syringe. even with the meds she has been on for a while. so we're having to go extra slowly to try and build her confidence again :(

she perked up quite a bit last night and was nibbling hay but she's been following benjie round trying to steal his poops. i was tempted to try and make poop soup for her but because she is getting upset with the syringe now, i left her to eat them herself from him. he doesn't seem to mind sharing! he's been so amazing with her - very reassuring, gentle and kind :luv:
 
Hope Mollie feels better soon. We can all identify with being grumpy when not feeling well. Good to see Benjie is looking after her.
 
she had some grass earlier but there just isn't enough fibre moving through her so we've had to give her a syringe feed. it was a challenge to say the least. had to take it slowly because she was not happy about it. she would only take 0.1ml mouthfuls to start with but moved to 0.2ml mouthfuls as we went along. but... it took 40mins to get just 2ml into her :( really hard to do, but least it's a small top up of something good to go alongside the bits she is eating for herself.

her wound on her tummy is looking really good though so that's something. she's just a bit fed up with it all now. i feel awful :(
 
Wait did you say Engemycin? Isn't that the antibiotic that must not be given orally? Tag one of the more experienced members but I have a niggling feeling about that one :( I wouldn't give it, ask for Marbocyl, Petal has that & it is the one that doesn't upset her tummy. I would also make sure she has adequate pain relief, if she is on Metacam get some Tramodol as well from the vets, that made all the difference to Petal's eating. All of mine chased the others for poops, if you syringe her some Avipro probiotic in some water, she will love it & get her syringe confidence back ;)
 
What syringe feed are you using? Most definitely syringe feed her, she should be getting feeds every 3 hours ideally & also be on gut stim meds like Emeprid & Zantac for a good few days or week post op xx
 
Poppy'sMum said:
Wait did you say Engemycin? Isn't that the antibiotic that must not be given orally? Tag one of the more experienced members but I have a niggling feeling about that one :( I wouldn't give it, ask for Marbocyl, Petal has that & it is the one that doesn't upset her tummy. I would also make sure she has adequate pain relief, if she is on Metacam get some Tramodol as well from the vets, that made all the difference to Petal's eating. All of mine chased the others for poops, if you syringe her some Avipro probiotic in some water, she will love it & get her syringe confidence back ;)
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yes, it's the one that has been talked about recently although our vets say it's fine given orally in the small amounts for small periods of time. seems to be a debate on it though but she's off it now anyway. i'm not sure which one she had straight after the op but i would think it was the same one but injected. vet has said because the antibiotic was just precaution that she may not need one anyway. it's upto us really so i'm not sure what to do.

she's on high metacam now split over 3x a day which should be enough but if i still don't think she's right, i'll ask about the tramadol when i next speak to the vet.

she's been on avipro water for a few months now and usually loves it, but she won't even take that very easily now. i just put a pinch in the critical care so she got some that way. she did take the syringed water more easily though that i gave during the syringe feed.

she got better as the syringe feed went along though so there is hope. and she is eating veg normally and she will eat grass aswell. she also have one vitakraft pellet and is nibbling small amounts of hay. it's just the fibre she needs more of so i hope we can get her comfortable taking these small feeds regularly just to make sure she is getting enough.

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Ok I hope this works, this is me feeding Petal, I found that by stroking her firmly from her head down her back she happily took the syringe feed x
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