Luckykmj
New Born Pup
Hi all. This is my first time posting here and I currently live in the US. For the last two months my 2 year old female guinea pig has had some light pink blood in her urine. She did not seem to be in pain but we took her to the vet as soon as we saw it. The vet did an X-ray and at the time didn’t see anything, diagnosed her with a UTI and gave her some antibiotics. The bleeding continued after she finished the antibiotic so we took her back but again they didn’t find anything after doing another X-ray and ultrasound so we took her to another vet who also couldn’t find anything on the ultrasound and sent us home. Last week, we noticed that she was crying when urinating and there was a lot more blood in her urine. We took her to a third vet 2 hours away that we previously went to before moving and who we absolutely loved. Finally they found a very small single bladder stone! The vet was concerned that she did have an ovarian cyst based on the uterus pushing against her bladder. We had her sedated for a CT scan on Thursday and thankfully she doesn’t have a cyst and just has the single small stone with some more possibly forming in her kidneys. The vet is hopeful that she will be able to pass it on her own and prevent the formation of new stones by using potassium citrate. She is also on metacam, enroflaxcin, and gabapentin. The vet wants a repeat X-ray in a few weeks to check the progress. Since the sedation she hasn’t been herself but continues to eat and drink when we bring her food. She is still crying in pain though from the stone and is not herself. We have done everything we can for her so I’m just posting this to see if anyone else has had a similar experience. Anything is appreciated! I just want my girl to feel better.