Polyp?

[Bubble and Squeak]

Bubble has a history of painful poos(for about 8 months now), and has been to the vet a few times in regard to this. They have examined him thoroughly each time. The first time they gave us liquid paraffin to give him every other day for 2 weeks. which seemed to help him for a while (probably about 3 months). Bubble then started being in pain again, and so we went back to the vet. This time they gave us cat Metacam to use once a day for a week. This helped him too, and again for about a month or two Bubble was okay. When he then started with painful poos again (but it doesn't seem to be every time he does a poo) we got back in touch with the vet. They haven't actually given us a diagnosis of what it might be, but just said that some piggies are prone to things like this. They then said to just either use the liquid paraffin or Metacam (to give 24 hours gap if we changed from the paraffin to the metacam, otherwise it wouldn't absorb properly) as needed and to go back again if things didn't seem to be getting any better.

We have given him Metacam twice earlier this week, when he seemed particularly bad and the rest of the week he has been okay. Earlier when we were giving him and Squeak their weekly weigh in, nail clip and general check over, we noticed what looks like a sort of polyp. Even though we (or the vet) hadn't noticed it before, we are wondering if this may be the cause of his pain. We will ring the vet tomorrow to make an appointment, but wondered if anyone else has had experience of this with their piggies. I have attached a couple of photos, so that you can see what we mean.

 

[Wiebke]

Hi

I am very sorry but we have never seen anything like this on here before. Are yu seeing a general vet or an exotics vet and how experienced are they with guinea pigs?

 

[Bubble and Squeak]

Hi @Wiebke
It is a general vet (as unfortunately we don't have an exotic practice near us), but at least a couple of them specialize in small animals and are very good with guinea pigs. One of the vets in particular sometimes works in a different branch to the local one, but it is only about 20-25 minutes drive away, so not too bad if we had to travel there instead.
I will call them in the morning to make an appointment.
Bubble seems to be happy enough in himself otherwise, and is holding his weight, so hopefully that is a good sign. I will update this thread once we know more, in case it helps anyone else at some time.

 

[Bubble and Squeak]

We took Bubble to the vet this afternoon. It was one of the practice's locum vets, who was a really lovely gentleman and a huge guinea pig fan!
Bubble has got a wart. The vet has said that unless it ulcerates, bleeds or becomes bothersome for Bubble, to leave it and keep an eye on it.
He mentioned that if it ever did need removing, that threading would be an option.

 

[Wiebke]

We took Bubble to the vet this afternoon. It was one of the practice's locum vets, who was a really lovely gentleman and a huge guinea pig fan!
Bubble has got a wart. The vet has said that unless it ulcerates, bleeds or becomes bothersome for Bubble, to leave it and keep an eye on it.
He mentioned that if it ever did need removing, that threading would be an option.

Glad that it is not something really nasty. Warts are pretty rare in guinea pigs, and yours is not in a convenient location; pooing must be rather unpleasant, poor boy. It is one of those things that really need a hands-on examination.

 

[Bubble and Squeak]

Glad that it is not something really nasty. Warts are pretty rare in guinea pigs, and yours is not in a convenient location; pooing must be rather unpleasant, poor boy. It is one of those things that really need a hands-on examination.

We might not have noticed it for a while, it was only because he had a piece of hay poking out, that we needed to remove. Poor little chap. Just glad that apart from being in pain whilst pooing now and again, he otherwise seems happy and okay in himself.