mrs megumi
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi!
I would like to ask if anyone has experienced a similar health problem in guinea pigs, as despite many visits to a very knowledgeable exotic vet we have not solved the problem. This concerns my female guinea pig, currently 4.5 years old. She has been neutered almost 2 years ago due to ovarian cysts. (NOTE! Graphic description of the problem follows: )
The problems we have now started earlier this year in February and what happens is blood-colored mucus comes from her anal opening from time to time. Sometimes it is dark red, and sometimes it is just light, light pink. I would describe it as slime that I sometimes find on her, sometimes on the blanket she has been sitting on, etc. This has been going on since February, it does not come very often, sometimes several weeks go by without me seeing it. About 2 times I have seen that she seems to be in pain when she poops, then there has also been a little blood on the poop that I can see when I put it on kitchen paper. Otherwise, her general condition is very good, she behaves and eats as usual, even her poop looks healthy. She has not lost any weight. She has been to the vet on several occasions for these problems. In March she underwent surgery for this, after an ultrasound we thought it was a tumor in the urine bladder, but during the surgery nothing was found and all the organs looked, according to the vet, good. The bladder was never opened because it looked healthy and she could have had other problems after such an operation.
After the surgery, the vet no longer believes it is a tumor of some kind, and if it had been, we would have very likely seen more/increased symptoms now 6 months later. In June, her stool was sent for testing, but no, they couldn't find anything strange there. Her diet consists of hay and vegetables and right now I'm logging all the vegetables she gets, to try to piece together any symptoms. So I'm trying to see if she is sensitive to any particular vegetable and that is what causes this blood-mixed mucus to form. But she eats basically the same kind of vegetables that she also ate before all this started, so this also feels a bit far-fetched. I buy my hay from the same place as before.
Has anyone experienced anything similar? It feels like we've hit a dead end and it pains me that my little darling is not feeling quite well and may also be in pain now and then.
Thanks in advance! Appreciate any help!
Not sure how to post photos here, if you want to see photos of the mucus please go to this sweidsh forum for guinea pigs where I posted the same question: Önskar hjälp med att lösa långdraget hälsomysterium | Marsvin iFokus
I would like to ask if anyone has experienced a similar health problem in guinea pigs, as despite many visits to a very knowledgeable exotic vet we have not solved the problem. This concerns my female guinea pig, currently 4.5 years old. She has been neutered almost 2 years ago due to ovarian cysts. (NOTE! Graphic description of the problem follows: )
The problems we have now started earlier this year in February and what happens is blood-colored mucus comes from her anal opening from time to time. Sometimes it is dark red, and sometimes it is just light, light pink. I would describe it as slime that I sometimes find on her, sometimes on the blanket she has been sitting on, etc. This has been going on since February, it does not come very often, sometimes several weeks go by without me seeing it. About 2 times I have seen that she seems to be in pain when she poops, then there has also been a little blood on the poop that I can see when I put it on kitchen paper. Otherwise, her general condition is very good, she behaves and eats as usual, even her poop looks healthy. She has not lost any weight. She has been to the vet on several occasions for these problems. In March she underwent surgery for this, after an ultrasound we thought it was a tumor in the urine bladder, but during the surgery nothing was found and all the organs looked, according to the vet, good. The bladder was never opened because it looked healthy and she could have had other problems after such an operation.
After the surgery, the vet no longer believes it is a tumor of some kind, and if it had been, we would have very likely seen more/increased symptoms now 6 months later. In June, her stool was sent for testing, but no, they couldn't find anything strange there. Her diet consists of hay and vegetables and right now I'm logging all the vegetables she gets, to try to piece together any symptoms. So I'm trying to see if she is sensitive to any particular vegetable and that is what causes this blood-mixed mucus to form. But she eats basically the same kind of vegetables that she also ate before all this started, so this also feels a bit far-fetched. I buy my hay from the same place as before.
Has anyone experienced anything similar? It feels like we've hit a dead end and it pains me that my little darling is not feeling quite well and may also be in pain now and then.
Thanks in advance! Appreciate any help!
Not sure how to post photos here, if you want to see photos of the mucus please go to this sweidsh forum for guinea pigs where I posted the same question: Önskar hjälp med att lösa långdraget hälsomysterium | Marsvin iFokus
