Hi everyone,
I posted recently our turmoil on if we should take our boy for bladder surgery or not, having discovered he had stones about 3 weeks ago. Unfortunately he became quite obviously poorly on Monday, (he was managing happily with meds until then) and we ended up taking him for an emergency surgery the same day. He came home yesterday evening, after the vets had said he had seemed “perky” and was nibbling veg so was fine to come home. However, since we’ve had him all he wants to do is sleep, with obviously little energy to eat or do anything for himself. He’s still got laboured breathing, and has lost some weight so we are syringe feeding him every hour/two hours.
It’s been nearly 48 hours now and he’s not moved out of his cosy unless he’s readjusting or hiding himself. No interest in food or water, and being with his cage mate hasn’t perked him up either.
We think the vets maybe didn’t feed him enough and he’s possibly in GI stasis (if he has now suddenly stopped eating if the vets were correct and he’d been eating on his own accord), or my other thinking is reading some posts about the effects of buprenorphine post-op (we don’t have confirmation he has had this, but seems possible)? We’re really worried about him, and obviously are trying our best to get him perkier, but even syringe feeding him he’ll just hold the food in his mouth and doesn’t even seem to have the energy to swallow it
Has anyone had similar experience or know at what point we should seek intervention? Any tips or tricks? Anything at all?
I posted recently our turmoil on if we should take our boy for bladder surgery or not, having discovered he had stones about 3 weeks ago. Unfortunately he became quite obviously poorly on Monday, (he was managing happily with meds until then) and we ended up taking him for an emergency surgery the same day. He came home yesterday evening, after the vets had said he had seemed “perky” and was nibbling veg so was fine to come home. However, since we’ve had him all he wants to do is sleep, with obviously little energy to eat or do anything for himself. He’s still got laboured breathing, and has lost some weight so we are syringe feeding him every hour/two hours.
It’s been nearly 48 hours now and he’s not moved out of his cosy unless he’s readjusting or hiding himself. No interest in food or water, and being with his cage mate hasn’t perked him up either.
We think the vets maybe didn’t feed him enough and he’s possibly in GI stasis (if he has now suddenly stopped eating if the vets were correct and he’d been eating on his own accord), or my other thinking is reading some posts about the effects of buprenorphine post-op (we don’t have confirmation he has had this, but seems possible)? We’re really worried about him, and obviously are trying our best to get him perkier, but even syringe feeding him he’ll just hold the food in his mouth and doesn’t even seem to have the energy to swallow it
Has anyone had similar experience or know at what point we should seek intervention? Any tips or tricks? Anything at all?
My Ella was given Buprenorphine for her recent incisor removal, was even given some to bring home to give her every 8 hours and apart from being a bit spaced out for the first 24 hours post surgery, she was absolutely fine. Granted, she didn’t eat but that was due to mouth pain from having her incisor removed. She wanted to eat though.
) to help him. Since he’s been back his wheezing/laboured breathing has calmed (it’s still rapid but not wheezy anymore), and he’s seeming a bit more settled. We’re hoping this will help him through the worst of it and we can get him eating a bit more easily to prevent any stasis. He’s got another appointment tomorrow for a follow up too! Thank you all for the support x
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