angelafaitha
New Born Pup
Hi everyone! My Guinea pig Lenny has had some sort of breathing issue for almost a year now. Its not life threating currently, but it has been in the past. We've gone to 2 veternarians in that time frame and they both seem stumped on what his issue is.
In the beginning of this issue Lenny was severely congested to the point he was gasping for air. He doesnt have discharge coming out of his nose or watery eyes. Lenny is currently eating and drinking fine just has some effort breathing normally The first vet I went to said Lenny was severly congested and not a uri or any other lung infection. He gave him some Saline drops to put in his nose and antibiotics and that did seem to work with so he isn't gasping for air anymore, but he was still wheazing.
I kept coming back to that vet several times because whatever lenny has was still hanging around, but not as severe just weazing and having a slight effort breathing. My first vet kept proscribing him new antibiotics and steroids but nothing was working so i decided to try a different veterinarian.
The new vet said all the medications my previous vet proscribed should of worked but he was thinking the dosage was too low. Then he gave Lenny xrays of his lungs and said he had pneumonia so he proscribed him antibiotics and we were to come back for our checkout 2 weeks later. After 2 weeks still no improvement. During that checkup my vet says Lenny doesn't have pneumonia and he doesn't really know what his issue is and that i just have to give him extra vitamin C to boost his immune system. That was about 2 months ago.
I've been giving him extra Vitamin C in his water and almost every day 4 drops I'm his mouth and nothing has worked. I don't want to keep taking him to the vet so they can keep proscribing medications that don't work. It's not healthy for him.
Lenny is currently eating, Drinking, peeing and pooping normally. His wheezing comes and gos sometimes hes kind of loud and other times hes completely quiet. He's the loudest is when he eats his veggies. I've noticed after he drinks water he isn't as loud it goes away. This isn't currently life threating, but I'm sure this is uncomfortable for him to be dealing with this for almost a year. I have a video of him but it won't post :/
In the beginning of this issue Lenny was severely congested to the point he was gasping for air. He doesnt have discharge coming out of his nose or watery eyes. Lenny is currently eating and drinking fine just has some effort breathing normally The first vet I went to said Lenny was severly congested and not a uri or any other lung infection. He gave him some Saline drops to put in his nose and antibiotics and that did seem to work with so he isn't gasping for air anymore, but he was still wheazing.
I kept coming back to that vet several times because whatever lenny has was still hanging around, but not as severe just weazing and having a slight effort breathing. My first vet kept proscribing him new antibiotics and steroids but nothing was working so i decided to try a different veterinarian.
The new vet said all the medications my previous vet proscribed should of worked but he was thinking the dosage was too low. Then he gave Lenny xrays of his lungs and said he had pneumonia so he proscribed him antibiotics and we were to come back for our checkout 2 weeks later. After 2 weeks still no improvement. During that checkup my vet says Lenny doesn't have pneumonia and he doesn't really know what his issue is and that i just have to give him extra vitamin C to boost his immune system. That was about 2 months ago.
I've been giving him extra Vitamin C in his water and almost every day 4 drops I'm his mouth and nothing has worked. I don't want to keep taking him to the vet so they can keep proscribing medications that don't work. It's not healthy for him.
Lenny is currently eating, Drinking, peeing and pooping normally. His wheezing comes and gos sometimes hes kind of loud and other times hes completely quiet. He's the loudest is when he eats his veggies. I've noticed after he drinks water he isn't as loud it goes away. This isn't currently life threating, but I'm sure this is uncomfortable for him to be dealing with this for almost a year. I have a video of him but it won't post :/
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