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Please help, spinning in circles and eyes rolling

Lisanjake said:
I hope the videos work.

Erin just randomly started spinning and her eyes rolling around. She was stumbling and collapsed in my lap.
Like a seizure maybe?!

Saying that she totally back to normal now. :/

9 December 2023

9 December 2023

9 December 2023
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Hi

I am very sorry. It is always disconcerting. :(

Please contact your vets on Monday since Erin has bounced back OK now. Make sure that you take your phone with the videos.

Here is what little information there is in terms of neurological problems in guinea pigs: CBS (Calcified Bulla Syndrome) and Neurological Problems - Symptoms and Care
 
I hope your girl will be allright! Please be sure that your vets check for an ear infection (not just by looking into the outer ear!). Middle and inner ear infections cause symptoms like Erin's and are quite common.
 
Viennese Furbabies said:
I hope your girl will be allright! Please be sure that your vets check for an ear infection (not just by looking into the outer ear!). Middle and inner ear infections cause symptoms like Erin's and are quite common.
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Hi I got her seen and they said it could be a number of things.
Vet doesn’t think ear infection as she had a look and they seen all clear.
She has very slight head tilt to the right (she was turning on her right side in the video) and she closed her right eye slightly now and then.
Possible abscess / brain Tumor. She can’t do a scan or X-ray without me booking her in first thing.

Thing that worries me now is she just sits in her house a bit depressed and rocks a little when she breathes.
I told her this and she said they can do a heart scan but just monitor it.

As she’s very bloated too she didn’t want to risk giving fruside as she doesn’t want to dehydrate her more.
Just to monitor for now, and it could poss be the start of an URI.
Stresses me out seeing her like this. She’s not doing a great deal and now I can’t see anyone all weekend 🙈 being an 160 mile round trip it’s hard getting time off work all the time too 😢 and I can’t look after her / syringe or monitor her when I’m working! X
 
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