Emx93
Forum Donator 2023/24
Thankyou 
so many meds and shes putting up such a fight 
its so disheartening when they go downhill despite everything. It's very worrying that she's facing a corner constantly, her friends keep trying to groom her and are being protective but she keeps moving away 
the last piggy who did that was flower and she didnt survive 
her jaw bone may be involved, we could maybe do some x rays but whether they would tell us much we don't know, for now we've got to get her more stabilised, her poo is small and pointy despite 2 gut stimulants, she's lost a lot of weight in 24h, she was 1018g on my scales yesterday and 770g at the vets today (my scale batteries died right when I needed them not to but my scales usually match the vets almost exactly)
We did get sensitivity results back, the lab did not test against the zithromax or metronidazole but we are using them. She has 2 different bacteria in there, one is sensitive to baytril and the other only has intermittent sensitivity to it and is resistant to a lot of meds. It is however sensitive to doxycycline, those beads and the opthocycline stuff that we are squirting into it so if the current protocol does not work we still have options I did not want to use doxy initially because of it being known to wipe the guts and her already struggling. I'm hoping her teeth will rebalance if we can sort the abcess. We will have to get them sorted too if not but they are only slightly slanty at the moment, she was extremely distressed at being examined so we didn't check the molars today.
I'm so exhausted
this has always been my nightmare issue 
so many meds and shes putting up such a fight its so disheartening when they go downhill despite everything. It's very worrying that she's facing a corner constantly, her friends keep trying to groom her and are being protective but she keeps moving away the last piggy who did that was flower and she didnt survive her jaw bone may be involved, we could maybe do some x rays but whether they would tell us much we don't know, for now we've got to get her more stabilised, her poo is small and pointy despite 2 gut stimulants, she's lost a lot of weight in 24h, she was 1018g on my scales yesterday and 770g at the vets today (my scale batteries died right when I needed them not to but my scales usually match the vets almost exactly) We did get sensitivity results back, the lab did not test against the zithromax or metronidazole but we are using them. She has 2 different bacteria in there, one is sensitive to baytril and the other only has intermittent sensitivity to it and is resistant to a lot of meds. It is however sensitive to doxycycline, those beads and the opthocycline stuff that we are squirting into it so if the current protocol does not work we still have options
I did not want to use doxy initially because of it being known to wipe the guts and her already struggling. I'm hoping her teeth will rebalance if we can sort the abcess. We will have to get them sorted too if not but they are only slightly slanty at the moment, she was extremely distressed at being examined so we didn't check the molars today. I'm so exhausted
this has always been my nightmare issue 
yesterday they were rushing over to her the second I put her back in after every feed/med and grooming her, it's what they did with flower and flower passed during the same night they were like it and I was getting very concerned that mal would do the same. I still can't believe she's on so many meds! She hates it being flushed, she hates taking meds but we are managing and that's something! I'm going to check her teeth again tomorrow morning and if there any more slanted I'm going to see if I can get the molars checked, I'm thinking if there is something going wrong with them that's going to need sorting too to help her eating however she is managing a little by herself and I am truly hoping it's more of a pain issue currently, the molars have been fine at every check so far 
emailed the vet an update and to ask if we can stop baytril since both bacteria are sensitive to the eye drop one and we've had more improvement in 48h on these than a week of baytril and I want to minimise gut problems since her poop is really really tiny and she's clearly trying to rebalance if she's eating 
! Mentioned her teeth are a little more slanty (but no worse than yesterday) and asked about these x rays and if she needs them! Asked what we do about getting more zithromax if they need to order it in or not since we have to discard this after 5 days as they said to keep in touch and ive asked if she needs a recheck before hand or not 
after the last time she looked like that I probably over worried there. Mostly good at yesterday's recheck then today she's dropping food when trying to eat and looks all squinty eyed and sad so I've just sent another email to the vets with the picture and seeing if we can do anything other than what we already are! We briefly discussed opoids yesterday but decided against them since she was on so many meds and they can impact the guts and make them sleepy and we don't want to overload her system but looking at her today I'm not sure since her being in pain also knocks her appetite 
I'm lucky they are very good and i honestly cant thank them all enough (shes seen every vet, most of the nurses and the receptionists have been great putting up with me too!) but I think I'd be looking at a referral for a conscious procedure should she need a dental, especially if it becomes a regular thing though I'm not sure she could currently tolerate a conscious procedure due to the pain she's in. Also not sure how I feel about anesthetic in a poorly pig! I am feeling stressed! She is managing a little better today than yesterday but still on a slightly downward curve with her weight. 
if I don't see drastic improvement overnight I'll be calling for another appointment.
we did it 
