Mirandapear
New Born Pup
Hi everyone,
I’ve posted about my guinea pig tony before, hes been losing a lot of weight and the vet can’t find the cause despite doing a lot of different tests. They’re going to refer me to a specialist but in the mean time have given me metacam as he seems to be in pain. He’s barely eating hay, just a couple of strands and the rest of the time is sitting hunched in the corner or lying down exhausted. It looks like he’s in pain and can’t get comfortable / is tossing and turning and also barbering a lot.
The vet has prescribed 0.16ml of the cat metacam dosage once a day. I tried asking about the dog version but he said it’s not licensed for guinea pigs. Ive read on here lots of varying does but that 1.2ml can safely be given to guinea pigs twice a day. I decided to give him 0.16ml twice today as he still seemed in pain a few hours after the first dose. But there still doesn’t seem to be any improvement.
So my question is should I be giving him a lot more? The 0.32ml he’s had today is a lot less than 1.2ml so maybe it’s not taking the pain away.![sad :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
I’ve posted about my guinea pig tony before, hes been losing a lot of weight and the vet can’t find the cause despite doing a lot of different tests. They’re going to refer me to a specialist but in the mean time have given me metacam as he seems to be in pain. He’s barely eating hay, just a couple of strands and the rest of the time is sitting hunched in the corner or lying down exhausted. It looks like he’s in pain and can’t get comfortable / is tossing and turning and also barbering a lot.
The vet has prescribed 0.16ml of the cat metacam dosage once a day. I tried asking about the dog version but he said it’s not licensed for guinea pigs. Ive read on here lots of varying does but that 1.2ml can safely be given to guinea pigs twice a day. I decided to give him 0.16ml twice today as he still seemed in pain a few hours after the first dose. But there still doesn’t seem to be any improvement.
So my question is should I be giving him a lot more? The 0.32ml he’s had today is a lot less than 1.2ml so maybe it’s not taking the pain away.
![sad :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)