wanted to share this & maybe anyone else has similar experiences?
in early may i started to notice one of my guinea pigs loosing weight quickly. i checked him over and all we could see were that his teeth were very wonky. after taking him to the vets we found he had a jaw abscess in the bone. the vet decided it would be best to not try to flush it & gave us antibiotics and pain killers for him. he had an inscredibly poor prognosis as it was in the bone & fairly big already. still, we gave him his meds & critical care for a week or so. unfortunately the abscess kept growing & it eventually burst. from then on we continued meds & flushing it out daily. after a while the wound healed over and the abscess didnt get any worse for around a month. unfortunately then it did start to grow again & got really big before we decided to cut it open and flush it out again. at this point the bone had deformed but he seemed happy enough, so we wanted to keep trying until he seemed bad enough to pts. and to our suprise after a few more weeks of meds & flushing the abscess healed over again & hasn’t grown back since. of couse i know it is still there, but the last time we flushed it was in july and he is happy as ever now. gained all the weight back, no wonky teeth etc. no pain meds etc, just a slightly deformed jaw that’s causing no issues. he gets checked weekly but its not growing back yet. anyone else had the same experience? he was given weeks to live & he’s now perfectly fine around 6 months later (temporarily but still)
in early may i started to notice one of my guinea pigs loosing weight quickly. i checked him over and all we could see were that his teeth were very wonky. after taking him to the vets we found he had a jaw abscess in the bone. the vet decided it would be best to not try to flush it & gave us antibiotics and pain killers for him. he had an inscredibly poor prognosis as it was in the bone & fairly big already. still, we gave him his meds & critical care for a week or so. unfortunately the abscess kept growing & it eventually burst. from then on we continued meds & flushing it out daily. after a while the wound healed over and the abscess didnt get any worse for around a month. unfortunately then it did start to grow again & got really big before we decided to cut it open and flush it out again. at this point the bone had deformed but he seemed happy enough, so we wanted to keep trying until he seemed bad enough to pts. and to our suprise after a few more weeks of meds & flushing the abscess healed over again & hasn’t grown back since. of couse i know it is still there, but the last time we flushed it was in july and he is happy as ever now. gained all the weight back, no wonky teeth etc. no pain meds etc, just a slightly deformed jaw that’s causing no issues. he gets checked weekly but its not growing back yet. anyone else had the same experience? he was given weeks to live & he’s now perfectly fine around 6 months later (temporarily but still)
