WinnieandBear
Junior Guinea Pig
Hello,
Long story very short - my girl Bear is 3 years old and has had peristent bladder sludge and infections for her whole life. Took a couple of years for a decent vet to finally diagnose and not assume bloat (useless some vets are!) and at Christmas she had a bladder flush op.
She was much better afterwards and no more crying whilst pooing/weeing for a couple of weeks but shortly afterwards a hernia appeared. This seemed to get bigger and bigger and aggravated her bladder again.
Some episodes of the crying and hunching keptnle up all night and she has been on metacam almost non stop and also so opiate medicaiton at her worst.
She then had a hernia op a couple of moths ago which failed and left an open infected wound. Two weeks later I drove miles to a specialist exotics (Scotts in Bedford, fantastic knowledgeable vets) who performed what they called a miracle op and removed the infected mesh from the hernia surgery which had attached itself to her intestines too. This involved removing part of her intestine and repairing - they really had hardly any hope for her.
Miraculously we nursed Bear back to health and she has had some amazing weeks of happiness and painfree times. Sadly the hernia has started to reappear along with it, the horrible pains while going to the toilet. I thought/hoped it was a bad bought of sludge but tonight she is really sore and crying like she did before during the "bad times" before her ops.
I love this pig more than anyone and have spent so much time money and love the last three years on trying to fix her, I am scared to say when enough is enough, but I have exhausted all options - diet, filtered water, bladder tablets, extra water intake.
Has anyone got any advice or words of wisdom on when to say stop? And let her be pain free and in peace? I can't put her through another op, I refuse after she was so unwell last time and the vets agree she has used up her "piggy nine lives".
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Long story very short - my girl Bear is 3 years old and has had peristent bladder sludge and infections for her whole life. Took a couple of years for a decent vet to finally diagnose and not assume bloat (useless some vets are!) and at Christmas she had a bladder flush op.
She was much better afterwards and no more crying whilst pooing/weeing for a couple of weeks but shortly afterwards a hernia appeared. This seemed to get bigger and bigger and aggravated her bladder again.
Some episodes of the crying and hunching keptnle up all night and she has been on metacam almost non stop and also so opiate medicaiton at her worst.
She then had a hernia op a couple of moths ago which failed and left an open infected wound. Two weeks later I drove miles to a specialist exotics (Scotts in Bedford, fantastic knowledgeable vets) who performed what they called a miracle op and removed the infected mesh from the hernia surgery which had attached itself to her intestines too. This involved removing part of her intestine and repairing - they really had hardly any hope for her.
Miraculously we nursed Bear back to health and she has had some amazing weeks of happiness and painfree times. Sadly the hernia has started to reappear along with it, the horrible pains while going to the toilet. I thought/hoped it was a bad bought of sludge but tonight she is really sore and crying like she did before during the "bad times" before her ops.
I love this pig more than anyone and have spent so much time money and love the last three years on trying to fix her, I am scared to say when enough is enough, but I have exhausted all options - diet, filtered water, bladder tablets, extra water intake.
Has anyone got any advice or words of wisdom on when to say stop? And let her be pain free and in peace? I can't put her through another op, I refuse after she was so unwell last time and the vets agree she has used up her "piggy nine lives".
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