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Unknown Skin Complaint - Help Please!

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JenniferG said:
This is since surgery. The vet checked her paws yesterday and said she knows where they are, so it's not neurological, she said she was in intense pain having seen her sore during surgery. She is only moving around more now so perhaps just too weak to stand yet. It was the nurse that we saw today who just talked about feeding her.
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Its good she can still feel her paws. Give her legs a gentle massage every now and again as well as gently bend and straighten them to prevent them from stiffening up. Place her in a standing position whilst supporting her weight to get her used to feeling her legs under her again.

If you can get ontop of the pain and keep getting food into her she should strengthen up x
 
Aww, hopefully your piggy gets better soon.
 
Update: Kiwi is still not standing or walking since her surgery on Thursday, so I took her to another vet that lots of people recommend. There's limited parking and a busy area so I will be totally stressed each time I go but they are a lot cheaper (I felt I was being taken for a ride by the others, and they're a big chain now), and everyone says they're very caring as well as very good professionally. So...the first thing the vet says is that she's depressed, which I thought was good that he could tell. I showed him the pics I've posted here. He asked if the scab had been sent off for a biopsy...no it hadn't, and they didn't do a swap because she was on antibiotics. He said it would have been useful to know if it was a tumor.

I had told the new vets that she still had a runny nose but 2 of them listened to her chest and said it was clear...this vet could hear congestion and said it's not cleared yet, as I thought. She also has a raised temperature which I thought also. She's really not well and he can't promise a recovery but he is going to try 2 antibiotics at once. I've left her there to be fed as she's gone down from 1.2kg to 910g. I feel bad but she's been resisting feeding and I've syringe fed her for 2 weeks now while also trying to recover from surgery myself...I'm so drained now I've been crying on and off. I could take her in each day to be fed by the nurse but the parking is an issue in itself and I don't know what the cost of daily care is yet. She isn't dehydrated but he may given her an injection to keep her fluids up...I've been syringe feeding her water too.
 
Don't feel bad.
You are clearly doing everything possible, and she is in the absolute best place for now.
Take some time to recover yourself too.

Fingers crossed she picks up soon.
 
Sounds like she has the best chance possible with this vet- sending healing vibes x
 
I have everything crossed for you and Kiwi. Sounds like she is in the very best place. Hugs xx
 
Just back from the vets...bearing in mind that the infection (or whatever it was) on her lips could return, the focus at the moment is on why she won't stand and her continuing chest infection. She sounds very rattly now and I hope she hasn't got some food in her lungs but the continuing runny nose would suggest it's chest infection. She may not be walking due to a stroke during surgery...she holds her right front leg out a bit. Or she could have been manhandled during surgery but she's not up to an xray to check her leg. It could get better over time. She's on sulfratrim and baytril now together with anti-acid and pain killer. He also suggested extra vitamin C because that can affect muscle control, although she has been on critical care and has been having some fruit/veg (getting those dissolvable tablets)...the first week she was ill, I was on a juice fast running up to my surgery and she loved having a syringe full of that, so I'm going to make some of that juice again, just as a little something extra.
 
I'm worried about ketosis...kiwi has had a medicinal smell on her breath since she can back from the vets. I'm hoping it's something they gave her instead. I've had a guinea pig go into ketosis before and there was a smell around her but I can't remember if it was like this. Kiwi seemed surprised by her vitamin C this morning...not sure if she liked it or not but it should help.
 
I don't know if anyone is following this thread anymore but we lost Kiwi last night. We had a long cuddle last night, which was lovely. Missing her so much.
 
I'm still following, and have been all along.

Huge hugs for you, and I am so sorry for your loss.
No one could have tried harder to save her, and you did everything you could have.
 
That is heartbreaking for you. We all know how hard you tried to save her and how much she was loved. I am so very sorry that she didn't make it. Huge hugs to you. Popcorn free Kiwi, restored to full health at beauty xx
 
I'm so sorry she has gone :-( you certainly tried your very best for her and i hope you can take some comfort from that.

Sleep tight Kiwi xx
 
Thank you everyone :) I'm dreading taking her to the vets...I could barely hold back the tears when I went on Monday! They know she has passed away though, I'd emailed the vets last night about the medicinal smell on her breath and the vet replied this morning saying it sounded like renal failure from not eating well for so long.
 
I'm so sorry. I was still following your thread, just didn't know the answer to your last post. Sweet dreams beautiful.
 
Hope things are going to improve for her, moving part of the scab so she can eat was a great idea. I would syringe feed her until her appetite comes back she may just be whacked out with the surgery & trying to move about also pain will weaken. If you can get the feeds & water in her, that will regain her strength.

Oh no l am so so sorry for your loss. You tried so hard to keep her with you
Sleep tight little one.
 
Tiamolly123 said:
Hope things are going to improve for her, moving part of the scab so she can eat was a great idea. I would syringe feed her until her appetite comes back she may just be whacked out with the surgery & trying to move about also pain will weaken. If you can get the feeds & water in her, that will regain her strength.

Oh no l am so so sorry for your loss. You tried so hard to keep her with you
Sleep tight little one.
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I'm now starting to think that vets let us down. The surgery was on the Thursday and the check up was on the Saturday but it was with a nurse not a vet. She didn't instil me with confidence. I wish I asked her to call in the vet as Kiwi was still not standing or walking. Maybe a glucose injection or vitamin c then would have made a difference. Instead she resisted my suggestion thar Kiwi have 2 doses of pain killer a day, she asked the vet who okayed it, then sent me home with a sick guinea pig saying she needed to be fed more when I had already said she was resisting being fed. I already feel sick inside and now feel worse at the thought that more might have been done. Will complain to the surgey.
 
please do not beat yourself up,you did your best,grieving can make you doubt yourself.I'm very sorry you lost your beloved companion.:hug:s to you.x
 
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