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Ovarian cysts

Wheekallweek

Wheekallweek

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Many of you will know of Nomad, the most recent addition to Merrypigs rescue.

She arrived with a diagnosis of ovarian cysts. A spay was attempted in September before she arrived with us, but she crashed on the table so it was aborted. Luckily they managed to bring her back round!

We've popped her to the vets today as we have noticed blood coating her poo, as well as in her urine. She is completely comfortable when toileting and shows no signs of pain at all.

We've repeated xrays, ultrasound and bloods. Perhaps signs of infection on her blood rests so she's starting antibiotics. Otherwise she has one large, fluid filled cyst on each ovary, these are non-hormonal cysts and she has no signs of hair loss, behaviour changes etc.

Obviously we don't want to repeat the spay attempt after last time, and hormonal implants are no good as these are non hormonal (fluid filled) cysts.

It's difficult to tell whether the bloods is urinary/intestinal/reproductive.

Any ideas? Hopefully the antibiotics will do it but I think it's worth getting some pointers from others.

She is 100% fine apart from this blood...

Picture of the precious girly for piggy tax!
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Wheekallweek said:
Many of you will know of Nomad, the most recent addition to Merrypigs rescue.

She arrived with a diagnosis of ovarian cysts. A spay was attempted in September before she arrived with us, but she crashed on the table so it was aborted. Luckily they managed to bring her back round!

We've popped her to the vets today as we have noticed blood coating her poo, as well as in her urine. She is completely comfortable when toileting and shows no signs of pain at all.

We've repeated xrays, ultrasound and bloods. Perhaps signs of infection on her blood rests so she's starting antibiotics. Otherwise she has one large, fluid filled cyst on each ovary, these are non-hormonal cysts and she has no signs of hair loss, behaviour changes etc.

Obviously we don't want to repeat the spay attempt after last time, and hormonal implants are no good as these are non hormonal (fluid filled) cysts.

It's difficult to tell whether the bloods is urinary/intestinal/reproductive.

Any ideas? Hopefully the antibiotics will do it but I think it's worth getting some pointers from others.

She is 100% fine apart from this blood...

Picture of the precious girly for piggy tax!
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Would your vet consider draining? these days it is generally done under sedation with a live scan but your vet could talk to Simon Maddock at the Cat and Rabbit in Northampton. Draining is not a permanent solution but the procedure lasts for a fair number of months and may be a viable alternative in Nomad's case.

Sow Problems 'Down Below' (Ovarian Cysts, Super-seasons, Womb Infection, Pregnancy & Mammary Tumours)
 
Interesting, thank you @Wiebke. Our only concern would be her reaction to the anaesthetic and whether she would react similarly to the sedatives.

I didn't realise that the procedure would last a few months so that would indeed be an option!
 
Wheekallweek said:
Interesting, thank you @Wiebke. Our only concern would be her reaction to the anaesthetic and whether she would react similarly to the sedatives.

I didn't realise that the procedure would last a few months so that would indeed be an option!
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The Cat & Rabbit use isoflurane as a GA drug which is much better tolerated.
In the older days, the draining of the cysts was done without sedation through the skin.
 
Nomad is still bleeding, not in huge amounts at all but the blood is fresh.

She is still eating well and bright, and she continues with her antibiotics.
 
Hi,

I'd try this RIFE healing frequency for ovarian cysts, along with the other things you are doing. Just be consistent with it and it should help....Good luck! 🤞 🙏

Healing Frequency for Ovarian Cysts - Spooky2 Rife Frequencies
- YouTube
 
Nomad is back at the vets 😔

She is squealing a lot more when toileting, and there is still fresh blood. Her poos have shrank too, and she seems a bit down.

Her bladder is painful to touch, but there's also a concern over pyometra.

She staying for a few hours to have some more investigations, and hopefully she'll have a wee which will be sampled, sent away and cultured.

For now, she's continuing with pain relief, baytril and cystease. Amy will bring her home when her shift finishes in a couple of hours.

She's such a little treasure and is good as gold. Poor little mite 😟
 
Wheekallweek said:
Nomad is back at the vets 😔

She is squealing a lot more when toileting, and there is still fresh blood. Her poos have shrank too, and she seems a bit down.

Her bladder is painful to touch, but there's also a concern over pyometra.

She staying for a few hours to have some more investigations, and hopefully she'll have a wee which will be sampled, sent away and cultured.

For now, she's continuing with pain relief, baytril and cystease. Amy will bring her home when her shift finishes in a couple of hours.

She's such a little treasure and is good as gold. Poor little mite 😟
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Sorry to hear that. 😔

Did you try the cyst frequency at all?

You could also try this 8 hour REIKI healing session for animals....
- YouTube

And/or this Bladder Healing one, if she has a bladder infection..
- YouTube
 
@Storm1974 I know you're a firm believer in "alternative medicine" personally I prefer tried and tested treatment and advice which my health and illness experts give to a very high standard. Can I bring your attention to our forum disclaimer:
This forum cannot be held liable for any inaccurate advice given and is no substitute for proper veterinary care. If ever in doubt over the health of your animal, please ensure you seek professional veterinary attention from a qualified veterinary practitioner immediately.

By UK law only a qualified vet can diagnose, prescribe and treat an animal and only after a physical examination of the animal.

Can we also remind the forum members of their duty in accordance with the 5 freedoms to seek prompt diagnosis and treatment to prevent pain injury and disease and to seek prompt diagnosis and treatment if they do become ill or injured.

Thank you for trying to help but can you please leave it to the veterinary professionals. Ta muchly in advance. 👍
 
velveteenery said:
Just sending lots of love to Nomad! 💜
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Thank you ❤️
BossHogg said:
Can we also remind the forum members of their duty in accordance with the 5 freedoms to seek prompt diagnosis and treatment to prevent pain injury and disease and to seek prompt diagnosis and treatment if they do become ill or injured.
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Was this aimed at me? She has been to the vet, twice. We are currently waiting on a urine culture result.
 
Wheekallweek said:
Thank you ❤️

Was this aimed at me? She has been to the vet, twice. We are currently waiting on a urine culture result.
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No, this was in response to @Storm1974 's advice on this thread. Nothing to do with you.

We have some clear guidelines re. giving advice in our Health and Illness section. The member has been warned before about carrying alternative content into this forum.

PS: I am very sorry about Nomad and am keeping my fingers very firmly crossed for her.
 
Wiebke said:
No, this was in response to @Storm1974 's advice on this thread. Nothing to do with you.

We have some clear guidelines re. giving advice in our Health and Illness section. The member has been warned before about carrying alternative content into this forum.

PS: I am very sorry about Nomad and am keeping my fingers very firmly crossed for her.
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BossHogg said:
Not in the slightest, we can see you're doing everything you can for your piggy. 👍
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Thank you both ❤️
 
BossHogg said:
@Storm1974 I know you're a firm believer in "alternative medicine" personally I prefer tried and tested treatment and advice which my health and illness experts give to a very high standard. Can I bring your attention to our forum disclaimer:
This forum cannot be held liable for any inaccurate advice given and is no substitute for proper veterinary care. If ever in doubt over the health of your animal, please ensure you seek professional veterinary attention from a qualified veterinary practitioner immediately.

By UK law only a qualified vet can diagnose, prescribe and treat an animal and only after a physical examination of the animal.

Can we also remind the forum members of their duty in accordance with the 5 freedoms to seek prompt diagnosis and treatment to prevent pain injury and disease and to seek prompt diagnosis and treatment if they do become ill or injured.

Thank you for trying to help but can you please leave it to the veterinary professionals. Ta muchly in advance. 👍
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Yes I am a firm believer in so called 'alternative medicine', and it has been proven to work, many scientific studies have shown this, but of course not as many as for big pharma ones! 😐

But I have never, ever said to anybody, to use these solely, only alongside other treatments!

These 'alternative', I prefer to call them 'natural' and 'holistic' remedies are a fantastic tool for anybody to use, alongside their conventional treatments. The extortionate amounts of money vets charge nowadays, if somebody can use these healing tools to help prevent illness/treat ongoing without having to keep going back to the vets every time, then surely that is a good thing?! But it is everybody's choice and I'm sure nobody is not going to see their vets initially if they need to.
 
Storm1974 said:
Yes I am a firm believer in so called 'alternative medicine', and it has been proven to work, many scientific studies have shown this, but of course not as many as for big pharma ones! 😐

But I have never, ever said to anybody, to use these solely, only alongside other treatments!

These 'alternative', I prefer to call them 'natural' and 'holistic' remedies are a fantastic tool for anybody to use, alongside their conventional treatments. The extortionate amounts of money vets charge nowadays, if somebody can use these healing tools to help prevent illness/treat ongoing without having to keep going back to the vets every time, then surely that is a good thing?! But it is everybody's choice and I'm sure nobody is not going to see their vets initially if they need to.
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Unless you have personal positive or negative experience with specific treatments, we ask all members that are not forum staff to please refrain from proposing alternative or home treatments in this section. We are doing this for very good reasons. You have been made aware of this rule before.
If forum members want to seek alternative options in other places, they are free to do so - but not in this forum. This is your second official warning.

Apologies to @Wheekallweek
 
Nomad continues to have blood in her wee and it's causing her a lot of pain to go.

She now has additional pain relief. The baytril doesn't appear to be doing anything but hopefully we should have the culture results on Monday and can adjust treatment accordingly.

There were still no signs of stones or crystals on our latest visit, however her bladder is very sore to palpate 😕

Hopefully we just need a different antibiotic...

Luckily she is her normal self, eating well and loving cuddles and fuss apart from when she needs a wee!
 
Wheekallweek said:
Nomad continues to have blood in her wee and it's causing her a lot of pain to go.

She now has additional pain relief. The baytril doesn't appear to be doing anything but hopefully we should have the culture results on Monday and can adjust treatment accordingly.

There were still no signs of stones or crystals on our latest visit, however her bladder is very sore to palpate 😕

Hopefully we just need a different antibiotic...

Luckily she is her normal self, eating well and loving cuddles and fuss apart from when she needs a wee!
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HUGS

I am so sorry. Could Nomad have sterile cystitis or some bladder trauma from a stone? It would depend on a lowish bacterial count or on bacterial resistancies. :(

Anyway, I am keeping my fingers very firmly crossed that you vet can get to the bottom of what is causing her very sore bladder.
 
Nomad's culture shows CORYNEBACTERIUM RENALE - normally present in the eye of pigs but is pathogenic elsewhere in the body. It can track to the kidneys and cause antibiotics resistant infections there.

Now we need to formulate a plan... Poor little mite is struggling a bit 🙁
 
Apparently it's sensitive to enrofloxacin (already tried), penicillin (toxic!), doxycycline and tetracycline...
 
I am keeping my fingers firmly crossed for Nomad. Sorry that you are up against one of the nastier germs but I hope that doxy as the next likely step is going to help.
 
Wiebke said:
I am keeping my fingers firmly crossed for Nomad. Sorry that you are up against one of the nastier germs but I hope that doxy as the next likely step is going to help.
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Fingers crossed! The vets are going to email her results over to a specialist for their opinion too.
 
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