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Fingers firmly crossed, as both issues can be addressed - and Pink will hopefully be as good as new soon!
 
Thanks for the update, pleased he found that splinter. We have had success with those injections before. Lots of recovery vibes x
 
sport_billy said:
Thanks for the update, pleased he found that splinter. We have had success with those injections before. Lots of recovery vibes x
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Thank you Sport Billy! So relieved! I want to rehome another to fill the gap poor Biscuit left but not keen until Bella is better, so hopefully once sorted we can adopt another rescue. fingers crossed!
 
Guinea Slave said:
Hi Everyone

Well my little girl went to the vet yesterday. She gave her a thorough examination and found two things wrong. Firstly, a very hard piece of hay or splinter of wood (hard to tell) had got wedged between two of her rear teeth (sticking upwards) which must have been causing her a HUGE amount of discomfort.

Secondly, and this hopefully explains her intermittent weight loss, she has a large ovarian cyst. I am a little annoyed that the other practice "DID NOT PICK UP" on this a few weeks ago but there you go when I had her checked over as I was worried about her. So she is on Chorulon injections and I am hoping we will see an improvement. She is already much brighter in herself and was the first to the grass this afternoon. The Chorulon will take a few days to have an impact but I am quite sure the 'splinter' will be instant!

So pleased we have hopefully solved the mystery ! I will weigh her tonight and see how she is.

Keep you posted!

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Unfortunately this is far too often the case where vets are charging far too much for incompetent diagnoses. It's about time something was done about what I would call "quack" vets (comes from the term quack doctors).

Well I'm glad to see that your girl looks like she's going to be on the road to recovery now that she's been correctly diagnosed
 
Glad you got to the bottom of it Guinea Slave - I bet that splinter was very sore.

I really hope the injections work - I did a lot of research when our piggy had them and a lot of people had some good results with them. Unfortunately they didn't work for us (they reduced the cysts but not enough), so we chose to have her spayed - I would still try the injections in the future though.
 
Stewybus said:
Unfortunately this is far too often the case where vets are charging far too much for incompetent diagnoses. It's about time something was done about what I would call "quack" vets (comes from the term quack doctors).

Well I'm glad to see that your girl looks like she's going to be on the road to recovery now that she's been correctly diagnosed
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I have to disagree with this comment. My pig was seen by 7 vets, 4 of which were specialists and 3 of which very highly regarded. Her ovarian cysts and tumour were missed as they were so large, no one ever expected to feel anything that big. Also not helped by the fact that her abdominal organs were pushed all over the place instead of being in their normal position, just to complicate things!
 
Ouch, that sounds so sore, no wonder she seemed in pain. Hope the injections help the cyst.
 
Stewybus said:
Unfortunately this is far too often the case where vets are charging far too much for incompetent diagnoses. It's about time something was done about what I would call "quack" vets (comes from the term quack doctors).

Well I'm glad to see that your girl looks like she's going to be on the road to recovery now that she's been correctly diagnosed
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Hiya, to be fair on her, its quite unusual, she is normally pretty good hence my frustration. I just think she thought I was being neurotic ! I guess they are only human afterall. I do agree though, in the past I have used one or two vets and wondered why I bothered!
 
Hi All

Weighing in later but looking really good, very happy, first to food and just generally back to her usual self. As some of you commented, hopefully the Chorulon will work. I have used it before as well and had good results. Pending that, if they come back I may consider the implant that I have heard about. Anyone tried these?

I do wonder though, I have had a lot of guineas with Ovarian cysts, I wonder why they get them ? Is it inbreeding? All mine are rescues so probably mass bred but I would love to know what causes them.
 
Having had two girlies myself with ovarian cysts and with the experience of others on here, it is quite possible that the injections wont work long term and you might have to look to a spay - I have 4 spayed females and if you have a vet who is used to doing them on guinea pigs this can sometimes be the way to go - many vets have never spayed a guinea pig, but luckily mine is an exotics specialist at a vet referral hospital,who has 8 pigs of her own and spays all her girls and has done many others - as quite often implants and injections fail - average cost for a spay is about £90 by the way.
 
Ovarian cysts are pretty common in older sows. Often they are no trouble even if they are quite big. With a good vet, a spay is also an option if the hormonal treatment is not a full success.

My 5 year old Cariad had an emergency spay in May due to a lump and fluid filled borderline pyometric (infectous) womb, but she also had a vouple of nasty looking ovarian cysts. Despite her low weight of 100g, she has sailed through her op.
 
We tried the hormone implant Guinea Slave - sadly it had no effect at all (except to lighten my wallet by about £200!). We changed vets not long after having the implant and our new vet is an exotic specialist. She was of the opinion that the hormone implant has largely been proven to be ineffective and it is thought the reason for this is that the guinea pig sees it as a 'foreign body' and actually encapsulates it to prevent it from working. As such our vet no longer offers the implant as an option for resolving ovarian cysts. I have read online of people who claim it has worked, whether this was coincidental or dependent on how the pigs body sees the implant I'm not sure. I seem to remember that you have a good vet, so it could be worth talking through with them to see if they have had any experience.

If we are faced with Cysts in the future I will try the injections first before anything else. I have read many positive accounts of them and, although more expensive than a spay they are a lot less risky. That said as TAN says, with an experienced vet, a spay becomes a lot less risky so it is an option if you are happy with your vet (it was largely down to TAN's good experiences that we were actually able to go through with spaying her).

I had a thread on it at the time which has a few peoples experiences and our experience with the implant and injections. I just re read it and I had forgotten how much of a wreck our little girl turned me into! - http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/ovarian-cysts-can-anyone-offer-advice.106959/

I wish you and her all the best Guinea Slave.
 
Oh gawd, I hope the injections work then. I have found they last around 6-9 months. I have only had one girl spayed and she died 4 weeks later. To be fair she wasn't a well girl and had loads of issues but it's kind of put me off. You are right though, I have two excellent guinea vets so maybe it's an option. I just hate ops on piggies, I really do :-(

£200 for the implant! Omg! I don't mind if it works but sadly doesn't sound like it. I guess I'll wait and see on the injections. Thank goodness for the forum though! Thanks for all your feedback!

Btw she is now 978 g so on the way back up weight wise. X
 
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