Dilly's Piggies
Teenage Guinea Pig
It all started when Harriet got a piece of hay stuck deep in her ear canal 3 months ago, she was put under to remove the hay but the first try was unsuccessful, so we resorted to flushing the ear with Epiotic ear cleaner for a week. She went back for a check up, seemed much less painful and the hay wasn't visible so they assumed it had gone, case seemingly closed. A week later she had to go back again due to the pain returning, it was found she had an ear infection, she was given antibiotic ear drops to use for a week. A week later we go back, the infection hadn't cleared so she was changed to oral antibiotics, baytril, for a further 7 days and also to continue flushing the ear with saline solution instead this time due to wax build up. We go back a week later because her pain was still no better and she was put under sedation again for a further investigation, they found her ear drum was missing so diagnosed a perforated ear drum and took a sample of ear wax to culture. They switched her ear cleaner to TrizAural which is safer to use with a perforation and we had to use that for a further 10 days.
We got a call back 2 weeks later to say that her culture was normal and there's nothing nasty growing in there, also at this point Harriet seemed all clear, she had no pain so we informed the vet and no further action was needed. It has now been 2 weeks since then, and Harriet unfortunately has this severe pain back again, I have no idea what to do. I've spent about £500 on this so far and I'm struggling for money and patience now. They will probably want to take scans of her which requires another sedation, the last sedation she had she did struggle to come around, it was a very scary time but thankfully she pulled through, because of this I am very reluctant to put her under again, even though it's just a whiff of gas, she didn't tolerate it very well last time. She has to be sedated for the vets to even look in her ear, she screams at the top of her lungs because the pain is so severe and it's heart breaking.
I'm at the point where I'm thinking about leaving it be, she has always been her normal self, never been ill with this or lost weight, it only hurts when touched, and since the vets can't figure out what it is let alone fix it, why am I spending hundreds of pounds for nothing and also risking my pigs life by putting her under all the time? I'm at a loss, does anyone have ideas on what this is and what I should do? I'm hitting my head against a brick wall here. Harriet has also been deaf from birth, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with her issues now, a defect or something. Both myself and Harriet are just under a lot of stress with all of this, at least we have each other!
Cute picture of my baby <3
We got a call back 2 weeks later to say that her culture was normal and there's nothing nasty growing in there, also at this point Harriet seemed all clear, she had no pain so we informed the vet and no further action was needed. It has now been 2 weeks since then, and Harriet unfortunately has this severe pain back again, I have no idea what to do. I've spent about £500 on this so far and I'm struggling for money and patience now. They will probably want to take scans of her which requires another sedation, the last sedation she had she did struggle to come around, it was a very scary time but thankfully she pulled through, because of this I am very reluctant to put her under again, even though it's just a whiff of gas, she didn't tolerate it very well last time. She has to be sedated for the vets to even look in her ear, she screams at the top of her lungs because the pain is so severe and it's heart breaking.
I'm at the point where I'm thinking about leaving it be, she has always been her normal self, never been ill with this or lost weight, it only hurts when touched, and since the vets can't figure out what it is let alone fix it, why am I spending hundreds of pounds for nothing and also risking my pigs life by putting her under all the time? I'm at a loss, does anyone have ideas on what this is and what I should do? I'm hitting my head against a brick wall here. Harriet has also been deaf from birth, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with her issues now, a defect or something. Both myself and Harriet are just under a lot of stress with all of this, at least we have each other!
Cute picture of my baby <3
