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Meg has lost weight - a bit worried!

Meg weighed 6g heavier this morning than yesterday morning and I only syringe fed her 3 times (instead of 5 or 6) yesterday. I did top her up this morning with some syringe food. What I am doing is weighing her every 4 hours or so then if she hasn't eaten give her a top up. She is eating some but just not enough despite the Metaclopramide. She had her head stuck in a pile of fresh hay this morning and was chomping away.

I am still worried about her so will contact the vet tomorrow morning. She used to have a generous layer of fat over her ribs, now I can feel each rib and her spine which I have never been able to do since she was born nearly 4 years ago. Not in panic mode yet, but if she doesn't start eating I may well be soon.
 
Sorry not really any advice to give as you seem to be doing everything possible. Just sending healing vibes by the bucket load for a full & speedy recovery... To Betsy & Meg xx
 
Holding you and Meg in my thoughts, it’s such a worry and you are the best one to judge if Meg “is right or not” definitely have that conversation with the vet x
 
Come on Meg, eat up. Fingers firmly crossed and definitely go with your gut instinct.
Hope you get to the bottom of it soon.xx
 
I definitely agree that it’s time to get the vets to check her over again. There must be something going on if she’s losing weight, I wonder if her heart has been checked? I’m thinking of my middle aged piggies who started losing weight and who didn’t have teeth or particular bloat or gut issues and they were found to have heart issues. May be worth asking. An X-ray could help get to the bottom of what is going on.
 
I'm holding off contacting the vet today. Meg's weight is 20g more than yesterday and she refused a syringe feed this morning which is the first time she hasn't wanted a syringe feed in 20 days. I'm taking this as a good sign. I put fresh hay in hutch and run every morning so they always have access to fresh hay. Last night I put fresh hay in the hutch too as I want to encourage Betsy to eat after her spay and Meg to eat because she isn't. I'll monitor Meg closely over the next day or so to see if she is still eating. Thanks all of you for your support and healing vibes for Meg. As ever you have all been amazing! Lets hope that whatever it was that was causing Meg to be off her food has now rectified itself. 🤞
 
Betsy said:
I'm holding off contacting the vet today. Meg's weight is 20g more than yesterday and she refused a syringe feed this morning which is the first time she hasn't wanted a syringe feed in 20 days. I'm taking this as a good sign. I put fresh hay in hutch and run every morning so they always have access to fresh hay. Last night I put fresh hay in the hutch too as I want to encourage Betsy to eat after her spay and Meg to eat because she isn't. I'll monitor Meg closely over the next day or so to see if she is still eating. Thanks all of you for your support and healing vibes for Meg. As ever you have all been amazing! Lets hope that whatever it was that was causing Meg to be off her food has now rectified itself. 🤞
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That sounds very promising, hope she’s tuned the corner now
 
You must have read my thoughts Heather, cos I was just about to update. I'm still topping Meg up morning and night. She only gets about 5ml in the morning and all she wants in the evening. Her weight is still lower than I would like it to be but she is eating more for herself now and is always delighted when she knows foods a-coming. She gobbles up everything I give her and spends a lot of the day in the hay pile or hay tray so I hope that means she is eating some. When I got up at 4.30 this morning, I weighed her and she was 924g, and last night she was around that so she had maintained her weight overnight. She has got some of her feisy spirit back and runs when I try to pick her up and she looks so much happier than she did. Whether or not she will put back on the weight she lost or settle at a lower weight remains to be seen.
 
Meg is continuing to lose weight. I know that when she was in for the day the vet was unable to find anything wrong. Mystery weight loss is such a pain to find the cause of. On 5 April she weighed 960g and this morning she weighed in a 897g. I am continuing with the support feeding morning and night. Instead of me syringe feeding her she is now willing to eat it straight out of the bowl as long as it is mixed up with a little bit of banana and a few oats and she eats as much as she wants to. I ceased giving her Metaclompramide after 5 days (finishing last Tuesday night) as her weight stabilised although still low. I have some left and the vet said I could start her on it again. She said that she would X Ray Meg in various positions to see if she could find the cause of the weight loss but this would be under GA and the estimate for this is £300. Unfortunately, I can't afford this amount, not having just paid for Betsy's spay (£150), my OH being on furlough leave and 5 adults to feed. The vet is making me up a large amount of Metaclopromide and posting it out to me so that I can give this to Meg.

Meg is still eating, still playing catch me if you can and is still her normal self. I just don't know what else I can do.
 
I am so sorry!

Mystery weight loss is my least favourite symptom of illness as it is such a wide field... :(
 
Oh I am sorry that the mystery weight loss is persisting. I hate it when you just can’t find out what is going on. Poor Meg.
 
Oh poor Meg. I do hope things start to the improve for her soon. 💕
 
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