AnonymousPigParent
New Born Pup
Before asking that I consult a vet, let me tell you that I have; several in fact. The exotic vet I go to seems to be booked up, our local vets only offer antibiotics or putting to sleep for very curable/treatable issues, and the two vets further away could not get samples during a planned biopsy, so opened up an abscess and left it at that, told me to wash and massage it, it sealed up and is filling up with puss again. So what I am asking for here is advice, be it right or wrong, on the best course of action and the urgency of the situation. I know you people are not vets, cannot diagnose or give difinitive answers, but you care a lot more about guinea pigs than a majority of vets do. It means a lot if you read this, and makes all the difference if you reply, it is very isolating and I feel like I can't help my cavy much at all at the moment.
Basically, I need to know if I should take my older months of 4 year old sow to have an abscess on her nipple lanced/drained at a inexperienced vet where she will have to be boarded for the day, numb and lance it at home as one vet advised, or wait until Thursday-Friday when I can get an appointment with good exotic vet who knows all the various complications she's had, etc. It isn't getting larger externally, so I'm terrified it is growing internally.
I have been monitoring her and her companion pigs for days, throughout the night, and have been crying so much I'd pass out from exhaustion at 2-3am. It's scary to think she could pass away alone in a vets clinic surrounded by unfamiliar smells without companion pig and after having had the abscess lanced and come right back again. She isn't that old (4.5-5 years) and has had so many health problems recently and recovered without issues, in good spirits and seeming more and more like herself again.
Is it urgent that I risk taking her to the unexperienced vet tomorrow for lancing the abscess, or wait until Thursday morning for her regular vet to drain it properly or remove it.
Please tell me what you think. I'm so anxious about her but vets have literally told me tgat they don't know other than to bathe it and drain it at home... but there is no opening to get anything out.
Thanks again sorry for the long post.
Basically, I need to know if I should take my older months of 4 year old sow to have an abscess on her nipple lanced/drained at a inexperienced vet where she will have to be boarded for the day, numb and lance it at home as one vet advised, or wait until Thursday-Friday when I can get an appointment with good exotic vet who knows all the various complications she's had, etc. It isn't getting larger externally, so I'm terrified it is growing internally.
I have been monitoring her and her companion pigs for days, throughout the night, and have been crying so much I'd pass out from exhaustion at 2-3am. It's scary to think she could pass away alone in a vets clinic surrounded by unfamiliar smells without companion pig and after having had the abscess lanced and come right back again. She isn't that old (4.5-5 years) and has had so many health problems recently and recovered without issues, in good spirits and seeming more and more like herself again.
Is it urgent that I risk taking her to the unexperienced vet tomorrow for lancing the abscess, or wait until Thursday morning for her regular vet to drain it properly or remove it.
Please tell me what you think. I'm so anxious about her but vets have literally told me tgat they don't know other than to bathe it and drain it at home... but there is no opening to get anything out.
Thanks again sorry for the long post.
