Puddles1999
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi everyone.
I posted a few months back about my Minnie losing a bit of weight. She was always around 1000 and she dropped down to 880-890. She maintained around there until this month. She went from 860 to 843 and then 3 days later to 794. She’s since been checked by a vet and she said she think she felt a small cyst on her left side. She doesn’t have any hair loss, the only thing is that I’ve seen a small crust on one nipple.
I mentioned at the vet about hormone injections if the cyst was hormonal but she apparently had never heard of hormone injections. Minnie is acting normal. The only thing I’ve kind of noticed is she looks a bit more puffy when she’s sleeping.
Her sister, Penelope just had a molar trim in September and now she’s having issues again so I am doing a drop off appointment tomorrow for her. I’m going to bring Minnie and if the vet has time, she will look at her as well. They seem to like to feel poorly together. I love them both but they sure do love to team up on me sometimes lol.
They are both still eating hay and I’ve started supplementing some critical care a few times a day. The weight loss wasn’t crazy over night. It’d be a bit one night and then a bit more the next or a few nights later. Minnie is now staying at 778g. That’s what she was when I weighed her again.
My question is I know with ovarian cysts that gradual weight loss is normal but does everyone just supplement critical care to their Guinea with ovarian cysts? What do you do about the gradual weight loss? I don’t want to get her spayed. She just turned 4 and I know that’s quite an invasive surgery. I’ve seen stuff about draining the cyst but who knows if my vet is familiar with that. I just want her to stop losing weight.![sad :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
I posted a few months back about my Minnie losing a bit of weight. She was always around 1000 and she dropped down to 880-890. She maintained around there until this month. She went from 860 to 843 and then 3 days later to 794. She’s since been checked by a vet and she said she think she felt a small cyst on her left side. She doesn’t have any hair loss, the only thing is that I’ve seen a small crust on one nipple.
I mentioned at the vet about hormone injections if the cyst was hormonal but she apparently had never heard of hormone injections. Minnie is acting normal. The only thing I’ve kind of noticed is she looks a bit more puffy when she’s sleeping.
Her sister, Penelope just had a molar trim in September and now she’s having issues again so I am doing a drop off appointment tomorrow for her. I’m going to bring Minnie and if the vet has time, she will look at her as well. They seem to like to feel poorly together. I love them both but they sure do love to team up on me sometimes lol.
They are both still eating hay and I’ve started supplementing some critical care a few times a day. The weight loss wasn’t crazy over night. It’d be a bit one night and then a bit more the next or a few nights later. Minnie is now staying at 778g. That’s what she was when I weighed her again.
My question is I know with ovarian cysts that gradual weight loss is normal but does everyone just supplement critical care to their Guinea with ovarian cysts? What do you do about the gradual weight loss? I don’t want to get her spayed. She just turned 4 and I know that’s quite an invasive surgery. I’ve seen stuff about draining the cyst but who knows if my vet is familiar with that. I just want her to stop losing weight.
![sad :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)