Painful urination.

[Poppiespigs]

Hello.

I have a 2 year old boar who 8 weeks ago had a bladder stone removed. His symptoms were weight loss and pain when urinating. He had no blood in his urine as all.

He has been fine until this morning when I noticed he was painful urinating again. Only ever passing small amounts with no blood.

He is still very bright, eating, weight stable, drinking well.

He was xrayed 2 weeks to check for stones and had an ultrasound - no stones

He is currently on metacam and potassium citrate. He has unlimited hay, 1 tablespoon pellets, low calcium veg, and brita filtered water.

Is it normal for to have no blood at all with UTI and bladder stones. I’m so paranoid about him having another one, especially so soon after the last one.

 

[Poppiespigs]

This was his bladder stone from 8 weeks ago

 

[VickiA]

I have had 2 boars with bladder stones. In neither case was there any blood in the urine and it was picked up on scans after weight loss.
If his symptoms have changed I would ask for the vets advice and have him checked again

 

[Wiebke]

Hello.

I have a 2 year old boar who 8 weeks ago had a bladder stone removed. His symptoms were weight loss and pain when urinating. He had no blood in his urine as all.

He has been fine until this morning when I noticed he was painful urinating again. Only ever passing small amounts with no blood.

He is still very bright, eating, weight stable, drinking well.

He was xrayed 2 weeks to check for stones and had an ultrasound - no stones

He is currently on metacam and potassium citrate. He has unlimited hay, 1 tablespoon pellets, low calcium veg, and brita filtered water.

Is it normal for to have no blood at all with UTI and bladder stones. I’m so paranoid about him having another one, especially so soon after the last one.

Hi

Please have your boy vet checked again.

Sometimes more stones can form in quick succession in the kidneys and travel down after a stone removal if something has gone wrong with the complex calcium absorption process. Any dietary changes (if they can help - it depends on what is wrong) will also take several weeks to percolate through.

Are you filtering the water or using low calcium bottled water and have you reduced the pellets to 1 tablespoon per piggy per day?

You stone has the rough look of a rather quickly formed one.