Hi, thanks for the interest still shown in my Maggie's struggle, and unfortunately she is still struggling
And thanks Pelicano for your PM. I just went to send a reply, but I got an error msg saying you've exceeded your private message quota and you can't accept new msgs until you've cleared some space?
Well, Maggie has been on Flagyl for a week and half. There has been some improvement in terms of her tummy seeming to be less "runny", i.e. her bottom is mostly clean all of the time now. However the poos she is doing are still soft and not much better than the cow-patty ones she's been doing before being on both the Panacur and Flagyl. So I'd say there's been little change. They still smell somewhat too. I would also mention that sometimes she does seem to be in discomfort when appearing to poo but nothing comes out, on occasion.
I have been giving Maggie a small amount of breakfast veggies since she's been on the Flagyl, as she has a cage-mate, and it seems unfair to have him miss out on veggies too. The previous times when I cut out all veg for a few days it had no effect on her poos anyway.
If she caught the Giardia back in April/May (her symptoms have been on and off since then really), perhaps it will just take a very long course of Flagyl to clear it up? Although I feel in my heart there may be another underlying problem with her somewhere..
I am making an appointment with the (much more sympathetic and of better attitude) vet who prescribed the Flagyl for me, to discuss Maggie's progress. Would it be worth trying to take blood and have it tested to see if there's anything else going on with Maggie that could still be causing her poo issues?
This vet I am now seeing said she knew someone in Brentwood (just further south in Essex from where I am) who could test the blood, and that she always uses him for her small furries' blood tests. So.... not quite having to send it to Scotland (where you'd be "laughed at in your face" for sending a guinea pig sample {:|) like the other vet said then! mallethead
