Oh it is good he wants to eat - are you trying some of the mushed pellets? He will enjoy the warmth as it is less work for his little body to do to keep him warm. I sadly lost one piggy after an operation a few years back and I can still remember how cold he felt as I nursed him - I knew his poor body was shutting down. If he feels warm it is a good sign. A gentle recovery will not make him lazy - as soon as he feels a bit more normal he will be up and about. Your vet sounds like he has a good reputation. We get other posters from Israel on here - no doubt they will be tagging you to find out more about your vet!
A recent poster here in the UK was prescribed this 'injectable' opioid medication to give her piggy orally - this seems to be more common here. The poster was concerned about giving a high dose because the pig can really be 'out of it' and stop eating. Your pig's dose sounds reasonable compared to what she was prescribed (which according to other people who responded was worryingly high - especially as it was for day after day for her pig not just once). She took the view that she would try her pig with a lower volume at first to see how they were on it - balancing the effective painkilling with her pig's appetite: too much pain = they can't eat, but too much opioid painkiller = they won't eat! She could always add more painkiller but once it was in there she couldn't take it out again!
It sounds unusual to us here because is not common practice in the UK for vets to hand out syringes of injectable anything to people but a sub-cutaneous (just under the skin) injection of a very small volume I can appreciate is not so difficult - as long as you don't stick it into yourself by mistake - and the rules are different in each country.
Now I'm saying that, but we once took a piggy in here in the UK and the vet was a visitor from Australia. She gave my pig a large sub-cut. injection of fluids under the skin on her back to try and make her pee lots and pass a bladder stone. This was nearly 10ml of fluids so it made a big lump on her back but the body absorbed it and she peed plenty overnight. She said she would give me another syringe to take home and do it again the next day but I said "No thank you!" (I'm thinking what craziness is this - if I do it right it is very uncomfortable for the pig and I could easily kill her if I do it wrong!) so she turns to my daughter who had said she is interested in being a vet when she is older and said maybe
she would like to do it if mum didn't want to... she was only 12 years old! I said I would bring piggy back tomorrow if necessary - luckily it wasn't and I have not seen that vet at the practice since so I am assuming we were not the only people who were alarmed by her free-wheelin' attitude. Well, you meet all sorts. Perhaps she was more used to advising farmers with cattle in the outback 1000 miles away!
Loxicom at 1.5mg/ml is the slightly stronger one and we get that for our piggies here - they tolerate it well. It is tasty and there is usually no problem getting them to eat it! Good luck and we will be keeping everything crossed for your recovery
