mariaheiss
New Born Pup
Hello everyone,
This forum has been very helpful for me and my partner a lot. I think I might give a try and hopefully we can find someone who could help our current situation.
One of our guinea pig Bun-Bun was diagnosed with a very mild case of lymphoma a month ago
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She is now 3.5 y.o., she is one of our first piggies with my husband. She was always a strong piggie, and never had any issues with her health, until a year ago, after her sister Cookie passed away suddenly. She has been getting so many different illnesses, just so much for a little happy piggy.
At first it all started with her getting a nasty pneumonia, that damaged her lungs, so she has been on nebulizer with Frusemide twice a day for about a year now. While examining her our cavy vet found that she also has ovarian cysts, but they are very tiny and since we found them they haven’t changed in size. We of course scheduled a spaying operation to remove them, but our plans were ruined in December the first time as she regurgitated for the first time on her birthday and spent all night at the hospital. Of course we cancelled the operation and began the observation. We have been to emergency a few times because of that issue, but now we got it sort of under control thanks to medications ( Ranitidine, sucralfate, which still are ongoing; and meloxicam at that time).
So we planned the spaying again, aaaand we had to cancel it again as the vet found out she has blood in her pee. Upon checking everything again, she was absolutely fine. So our vet said it might be interstitial cystitis. Plus another med for her - glucosamine.
We waited for some time until our vet said she is in a stable condition (apart from her breathing problems, occasional regurgitation, interstitial cystitis) to be ok for spaying.
But of course, something keeps stopping us from doing it, and our Miss Bun-Bun just perhaps doesn’t want to be operated. So approx a month ago upon checking her before the operation our vet found lumps under her neck under her fat. We got blood test and cytology. When the analysis came our vet confirmed she is 90% certain it is lymphoma.
Biopsy would cost another $700, I’m not sure though wether it is going to show anything different? If it is actually worth doing for a 10% chance it could be something else?
There are good news and bad news for us. The good news is that it is a very very mild form of lymphoma and our vet is very positive in treating it as she knows piggies who recovered well from chemotherapy treatments. So seeing how good Bun-Bun is doing so far, we might be able to get cancer under control.
The bad news is that Australia stopped distributing L-Asparaginase chemo that would help us to kill cancer. So we are in desperate search for this specific chemotherapy right now, asking everyone we know who could find it in their country so we can buy it and ship it to us. We also have a script from our vet, but it of course doesn’t work in other countries
I thought I might give it a try here and perhaps someone here has this L-Asparaginase chemo left or knows someone from whom we can buy it? We are even searching for a human one, as our vet is able to downscale it for guinea pigs. We need a powdered one and ideally 5 ampoules of 10000IU.
We would really appreciate your help! It would help us and especially our Bun-Bun so sooo much! As we are not ready to give up.
She is such a special piggy to us and everyone who knows her. She is a great fighter, even though she lost some hair during this year since Frusemide and now she has lost some weight too. But she is still such a happy piggy, she is active, especially when it comes to food! Eating and drinking well. Even though she sometimes looks when pooping laying down and she can’t lay down on her belly spreading her lazy leggies as before
We are treating her now with steroids. So hopefully they will at least stop the spread!
Apart from her other ongoing medications, she is also now on anti-vomiting medication as steroids made her feel nauseous sometimes.
I so much wish we could travel with her to another country and get this medication for her. As we could totally buy this L-Asparaginase seeing how much it costs everywhere.
This forum has been very helpful for me and my partner a lot. I think I might give a try and hopefully we can find someone who could help our current situation.
One of our guinea pig Bun-Bun was diagnosed with a very mild case of lymphoma a month ago
.She is now 3.5 y.o., she is one of our first piggies with my husband. She was always a strong piggie, and never had any issues with her health, until a year ago, after her sister Cookie passed away suddenly. She has been getting so many different illnesses, just so much for a little happy piggy.
At first it all started with her getting a nasty pneumonia, that damaged her lungs, so she has been on nebulizer with Frusemide twice a day for about a year now. While examining her our cavy vet found that she also has ovarian cysts, but they are very tiny and since we found them they haven’t changed in size. We of course scheduled a spaying operation to remove them, but our plans were ruined in December the first time as she regurgitated for the first time on her birthday and spent all night at the hospital. Of course we cancelled the operation and began the observation. We have been to emergency a few times because of that issue, but now we got it sort of under control thanks to medications ( Ranitidine, sucralfate, which still are ongoing; and meloxicam at that time).
So we planned the spaying again, aaaand we had to cancel it again as the vet found out she has blood in her pee. Upon checking everything again, she was absolutely fine. So our vet said it might be interstitial cystitis. Plus another med for her - glucosamine.
We waited for some time until our vet said she is in a stable condition (apart from her breathing problems, occasional regurgitation, interstitial cystitis) to be ok for spaying.
But of course, something keeps stopping us from doing it, and our Miss Bun-Bun just perhaps doesn’t want to be operated. So approx a month ago upon checking her before the operation our vet found lumps under her neck under her fat. We got blood test and cytology. When the analysis came our vet confirmed she is 90% certain it is lymphoma.
Biopsy would cost another $700, I’m not sure though wether it is going to show anything different? If it is actually worth doing for a 10% chance it could be something else?
There are good news and bad news for us. The good news is that it is a very very mild form of lymphoma and our vet is very positive in treating it as she knows piggies who recovered well from chemotherapy treatments. So seeing how good Bun-Bun is doing so far, we might be able to get cancer under control.
The bad news is that Australia stopped distributing L-Asparaginase chemo that would help us to kill cancer. So we are in desperate search for this specific chemotherapy right now, asking everyone we know who could find it in their country so we can buy it and ship it to us. We also have a script from our vet, but it of course doesn’t work in other countries
I thought I might give it a try here and perhaps someone here has this L-Asparaginase chemo left or knows someone from whom we can buy it? We are even searching for a human one, as our vet is able to downscale it for guinea pigs. We need a powdered one and ideally 5 ampoules of 10000IU.
We would really appreciate your help! It would help us and especially our Bun-Bun so sooo much! As we are not ready to give up.
She is such a special piggy to us and everyone who knows her. She is a great fighter, even though she lost some hair during this year since Frusemide and now she has lost some weight too. But she is still such a happy piggy, she is active, especially when it comes to food! Eating and drinking well. Even though she sometimes looks when pooping laying down and she can’t lay down on her belly spreading her lazy leggies as before
We are treating her now with steroids. So hopefully they will at least stop the spread!
Apart from her other ongoing medications, she is also now on anti-vomiting medication as steroids made her feel nauseous sometimes.
I so much wish we could travel with her to another country and get this medication for her. As we could totally buy this L-Asparaginase seeing how much it costs everywhere.
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