PotatoandBessie
New Born Pup
Hello All,
About 4 weeks ago my guinea pig potato started to lose some weight. A couple months ago at the vet she was 952g and she had gone down to 930g. Then she started to squeak while peeing along with some pink tinged urine. The weight loss continued down to 870g at her first vet visit. The vet prescribed her an antibiotic and a urethra dilatar drug (in hopes she would pad the stones on her own). The xray she had showed 4 stones ranging from 1-4mm. The vet said that we should follow up in one week to see if she had passed some. If some stones were left, we were fortunate to have a vet experienced with cystoscopy in guinea pigs. This is a procedure where a scope with a grabber is inserted via urethra and the stones can be flushed out or grabbed. When we followed up, only 1 stone remained but had grown to 5mm. This passed thursday was her procedure and she had to stay in hospital for 1 night since the stone caused some trauma to the urethra. She has lost a significant amount of weight, her lowest being 850g. We have begun critical care feedings and she did receive some fluids and was back up to 888g
I just wanted to share this with you all since I hadn’t heard much about this procedure. The benefits of this are mainly the fact that they do not have to go under general anesthesia and can just be heavily sedated. My piggy was still a little awake so they did give her some anestesia but not to the point of intubation or anything. She is at home recovering now and seems to be doing better but possibly a little uncomfortable still (who wouldn’t be though!). Attached are her original X-rays and the stone pulled during the procedure.
About 4 weeks ago my guinea pig potato started to lose some weight. A couple months ago at the vet she was 952g and she had gone down to 930g. Then she started to squeak while peeing along with some pink tinged urine. The weight loss continued down to 870g at her first vet visit. The vet prescribed her an antibiotic and a urethra dilatar drug (in hopes she would pad the stones on her own). The xray she had showed 4 stones ranging from 1-4mm. The vet said that we should follow up in one week to see if she had passed some. If some stones were left, we were fortunate to have a vet experienced with cystoscopy in guinea pigs. This is a procedure where a scope with a grabber is inserted via urethra and the stones can be flushed out or grabbed. When we followed up, only 1 stone remained but had grown to 5mm. This passed thursday was her procedure and she had to stay in hospital for 1 night since the stone caused some trauma to the urethra. She has lost a significant amount of weight, her lowest being 850g. We have begun critical care feedings and she did receive some fluids and was back up to 888g
I just wanted to share this with you all since I hadn’t heard much about this procedure. The benefits of this are mainly the fact that they do not have to go under general anesthesia and can just be heavily sedated. My piggy was still a little awake so they did give her some anestesia but not to the point of intubation or anything. She is at home recovering now and seems to be doing better but possibly a little uncomfortable still (who wouldn’t be though!). Attached are her original X-rays and the stone pulled during the procedure.
