Lauraspigs
Junior Guinea Pig
My dear little Saffie had an op this time last year to remove a bladder stone. She had a lot of complications for a couple of months afterwards which in the end was put down to interstitial cystitis.
She’s on the low calcium diet, has Voss bottled water as it’s the lowest in calcium and has a cystophan capsule every day.
On the weekend she started squeaking in pain so we went to the emergency vet at 1am, they scanned her and thought she had a stone 2mm by 7mm her pain was only managed by the buprecare(?) injections and surgery was scheduled for today.
When they did the op there weren’t any stones only blood clots that had hardened enough to resemble stones on the scans. She also had scar tissue and adhesions, her bladder was sticking to her uterus. They have removed the clots and flushed her bladder and taken a biopsy. They think it’s extreme cystitis. She will be staying in for a few days so they can manage her pain etc
Is there anything else I can do to try and prevent this happening again? I know that if reoccurs then there won’t be anything more we can do and she’s only 3 1/2.
Does anyone else have any experience of this happening?
She’s on the low calcium diet, has Voss bottled water as it’s the lowest in calcium and has a cystophan capsule every day.
On the weekend she started squeaking in pain so we went to the emergency vet at 1am, they scanned her and thought she had a stone 2mm by 7mm her pain was only managed by the buprecare(?) injections and surgery was scheduled for today.
When they did the op there weren’t any stones only blood clots that had hardened enough to resemble stones on the scans. She also had scar tissue and adhesions, her bladder was sticking to her uterus. They have removed the clots and flushed her bladder and taken a biopsy. They think it’s extreme cystitis. She will be staying in for a few days so they can manage her pain etc
Is there anything else I can do to try and prevent this happening again? I know that if reoccurs then there won’t be anything more we can do and she’s only 3 1/2.
Does anyone else have any experience of this happening?