5 year old female guinea pig drinking and eating lots and losing weight

[Ange1234]

Hello, we are new to this forum but are hoping there might be some folks here who might recognise the symptoms our lovely guinea pig, Pumpkin is getting and might be able to offer some advice please. She is 5 years old this summer and last summer we noticed she was drinking more than usual and peeing more and we took her down to our vet. They checked her urine and seemed fine no signs of bladder stones and prescribed antibiotics and metacam for a week. It did seem to help but she still drunk a lot more than the others. We took her back earlier this week as she is loosing weight but always eating and still drinking and drinking and peeing lots. Her poos were starting to get softer too. She had a temp so vet prescribed more of the same antibiotics for a week and some fibre paste to give her 3 times a day. We are also giving her lexicon once a day. She does seem a little less thirsty and her poos look better to but she is still not right. We go back on Monday and I think the vet suggested she could be put under general anesthetic to get bloods and scan to check for kidney disease and maybe cushings disease. Her weight was around .85 kg which is down again from last summer of 0.95kg and she was usually over a kg. I'm worried about her going under anesthetic and not sure if anyone else has seen these symptoms before and recognise them? They took an ear prick test and said they could rule out diabetes. She seems to be running around and coming to us for treats as usual but she is eating very fast and still drinking more than the others do. Thanks

 

[weepweeps]

Hello and welcome to the forum. I’m sorry but I don’t have any experience of this but someone will be along with some advice soon. I hope you can get to the bottom of her issues.

 

[Claire W]

Hello and welcome to the forum. I once had a piggy who was drinking an awful lot (a full bottle of water a day) and was losing weight. Her urine was very dilute and so was her blood and sadly, she was diagnosed with kidney failure but this doesn't mean that's what your piggy has but the blood test and scan sounds like the way to go

 

[Wiebke]

Hello, we are new to this forum but are hoping there might be some folks here who might recognise the symptoms our lovely guinea pig, Pumpkin is getting and might be able to offer some advice please. She is 5 years old this summer and last summer we noticed she was drinking more than usual and peeing more and we took her down to our vet. They checked her urine and seemed fine no signs of bladder stones and prescribed antibiotics and metacam for a week. It did seem to help but she still drunk a lot more than the others. We took her back earlier this week as she is loosing weight but always eating and still drinking and drinking and peeing lots. Her poos were starting to get softer too. She had a temp so vet prescribed more of the same antibiotics for a week and some fibre paste to give her 3 times a day. We are also giving her lexicon once a day. She does seem a little less thirsty and her poos look better to but she is still not right. We go back on Monday and I think the vet suggested she could be put under general anesthetic to get bloods and scan to check for kidney disease and maybe cushings disease. Her weight was around .85 kg which is down again from last summer of 0.95kg and she was usually over a kg. I'm worried about her going under anesthetic and not sure if anyone else has seen these symptoms before and recognise them? They took an ear prick test and said they could rule out diabetes. She seems to be running around and coming to us for treats as usual but she is eating very fast and still drinking more than the others do. Thanks

Hi

Please have your piggy vet checked for a potential metabolic problem like diabetes or hyper-thyroid.

 

[Ange1234]

Hello and welcome to the forum. I’m sorry but I don’t have any experience of this but someone will be along with some advice soon. I hope you can get to the bottom of her issues.

Thank you. Yes, we hope we can get to the bottom of her illness soon.

 

[Ange1234]

Hello and welcome to the forum. I once had a piggy who was drinking an awful lot (a full bottle of water a day) and was losing weight. Her urine was very dilute and so was her blood and sadly, she was diagnosed with kidney failure but this doesn't mean that's what your piggy has but the blood test and scan sounds like the way to go

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm really hoping the bloods will be able to determine what's causing these symptoms and that there will be treatment available to help her. Thanks for your advice. We'll see how the appointment goes tomorr

Hi

Please have your piggy vet checked for a potential metabolic problem like diabetes or hyper-thyroid.

Thank you for your advice. The vet did rule out diabetes with an ear prick test last week. I will mention hyper-thyroid to them. Thanks again.
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[AbraCassandra]

I don't want to worry you...But my guinea pig who was 7 at the time was losing a lot of weight even though she was eating. I assumed her sister was stealing food so I separated them for eating time and she just kept losing weight. I didn't take her to a vet...I was neglectful in that sense and I'll never not feel guilty because she ended up having cancer and it had progressed so badly and quickly that tumors were coming out of her back end and I didn't noticed until she was crying in pain one night and we had to drive her to an emergency vet 70 miles away at 11pm at night to have put her to sleep. She suffered a lot because I didn't take her or pay enough attention. I hope its not the case for your baby. Just pay attention.

 

[Merab]

Hello, we are new to this forum but are hoping there might be some folks here who might recognise the symptoms our lovely guinea pig, Pumpkin is getting and might be able to offer some advice please. She is 5 years old this summer and last summer we noticed she was drinking more than usual and peeing more and we took her down to our vet. They checked her urine and seemed fine no signs of bladder stones and prescribed antibiotics and metacam for a week. It did seem to help but she still drunk a lot more than the others. We took her back earlier this week as she is loosing weight but always eating and still drinking and drinking and peeing lots. Her poos were starting to get softer too. She had a temp so vet prescribed more of the same antibiotics for a week and some fibre paste to give her 3 times a day. We are also giving her lexicon once a day. She does seem a little less thirsty and her poos look better to but she is still not right. We go back on Monday and I think the vet suggested she could be put under general anesthetic to get bloods and scan to check for kidney disease and maybe cushings disease. Her weight was around .85 kg which is down again from last summer of 0.95kg and she was usually over a kg. I'm worried about her going under anesthetic and not sure if anyone else has seen these symptoms before and recognise them? They took an ear prick test and said they could rule out diabetes. She seems to be running around and coming to us for treats as usual but she is eating very fast and still drinking more than the others do. Thanks

Welcome to the forum.
These mystery conditions are so difficult to cope with.
All I can offer is support