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Squeaking with pooping, rolling in pain

squeaksandcarrots

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Penny has done this every so often and the vet always told me to give her 0.1 mL of cisapride and 0.1 mL of meloxicam. When this has happened before and I gave her the meds, she got better within 30 min-1 hour.
Earlier I woke up around 3am to her having this episode so I gave her meds. However it’s been a couple hours now and she’s still acting this way. I gave her another 0.1mL of meloxicam (I hope this is ok) because I can tell she’s in pain :( I will definitely be calling the vet but does anyone have a similar experience?
 
It also looks like she’s having a hard time passing poops. It’s not that she doesn’t have poops (she has lots and they look normal), it just looks like it’s painful to pass them. I haven’t seen her act this way before
 
:agr:
Do you have any idea why this is happening, have you done investigative work and it was put down to something?
I would just assume that having episodes or on and off to the extent she needs medication is a chain of reaction from perhaps a separate medical issue or dietary needs, I am not a vet but I am a training one and have owned pigs for years, and really I am just intrigued.

Please get her to the vet as soon as possible, I am keeping you both in my thoughts x
 
pigmotherof6 said:
:agr:
Do you have any idea why this is happening, have you done investigative work and it was put down to something?
I would just assume that having episodes or on and off to the extent she needs medication is a chain of reaction from perhaps a separate medical issue or dietary needs, I am not a vet but I am a training one and have owned pigs for years, and really I am just intrigued.

Please get her to the vet as soon as possible, I am keeping you both in my thoughts x
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Hi and thanks for the advice. Penny is truly a mystery as the vets are unsure why she has these episodes too. I don’t do anything different with her food and her routine is the same daily. I check on her every night before bed to make sure no episodes start and she looked totally normal last night
 
squeaksandcarrots said:
Hi and thanks for the advice. Penny is truly a mystery as the vets are unsure why she has these episodes too. I don’t do anything different with her food and her routine is the same daily. I check on her every night before bed to make sure no episodes start and she looked totally normal last night
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That really is strange, she’s one of a kind!

Fingers crossed your vet call/visit goes well.
 
Poor Penny, sending her hugs. I have been having this type of mystery with Brillo. He cries when he poops, sometimes it will be for a day, sometimes once or twice and then not again. He will then go for 2 or 3 weeks and we won't hear him cry again. He's had urine tests and xrays and there's no obvious reason for it. When he poops sometimes his poop is a bit shorter than normal but fatter. Brillo does have arthritis in his spine and hips, he's on daily Metacam for this. The vet and I wonder if its the position he stands in whilst pooping. Especially if the fatter ones are difficult to expel could be painful for his hips and/or spine. He has Gabapentin for the difficult days, I can give this up to 3 times a day as well as the Metacam.
Just a thought I don't know how old Penny is.
 
Hi

Has your vet checked for any pain sources in the area? It is all very tightly packed in the lower back area and can interact. The pain can for instance radiate into the gut and impact on the poos rather than originate from there.

Bladder or kidney stones, spine (including arthritis), sciatica or a blocked blood vessel may account for the episodes of severe pain. I think the symptoms point less to something wrong with the penis/penis shaft but that is another area that can radiate out. Finding out what exactly is going, especially with episodal severe pain can be extremely difficult, though.
 
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