Sterile Cystitis Diet ?

[Pet_Palace13]

Hello I’m new to posting on this forum. My Guinea pig Bambi has had stressful trips to the vets due to his bladder and being put on antibiotics without the vet doing culture test. Finally we found a new vet experienced with guinea pigs and she did tests and diagnosed Bambi with Sterile Cystitis. I was looking on the special dietary requirements and it says to remove lettuce ? Is that only if the pig has a flare up with it ? Also I feed forage a few times a week instead of pellets. I don’t know if I’m feeding too much forage like how much forage should I be feeding ? The X-ray shown Bambi has pre sludge. I’ve been so careful with the diet but I feel like I may have been giving too much forage ? I don’t give pellets anymore , low to moderate calcium veg, filtered water, I soak the veg in the water.

 

[BossHogg]

I've moved this to our health and illness section, you should get more replies there.

 

[Pet_Palace13]

Bambi was prescribed Gabapentin and loxicom on Tuesday. He still cries now and again when doing the toilet. Shouldn’t the pain killers be stopping that ? He’s also on Glucosamine supplements but he’s been on them for a few months. I feel so helpless for him

 

[Piggies&buns]

So I’m assuming the antibiotics did not make him better?
Sterile cystitis is diagnosed through process of elimination - first of all of antibiotics don’t work (ie it’s not a bacterial infection), bladder stones ruled out etc

The triggers for some piggies may be different for others.
Regarding the forage, it depends what items you are giving. Obviously as all the water is removed from dried forage, all the other elements in them become more concentrated.

What dosage of pain killers is he on?

 

[Pet_Palace13]

So I’m assuming the antibiotics did not make him better?
Sterile cystitis is diagnosed through process of elimination - first of all of antibiotics don’t work (ie it’s not a bacterial infection), bladder stones ruled out etc

The triggers for some piggies may be different for others.
Regarding the forage, it depends what items you are giving. Obviously as all the water is removed from dried forage, all the other elements in them become more concentrated.

What dosage of pain killers is he on?

He had been on antibiotics

So I’m assuming the antibiotics did not make him better?
Sterile cystitis is diagnosed through process of elimination - first of all of antibiotics don’t work (ie it’s not a bacterial infection), bladder stones ruled out etc

The triggers for some piggies may be different for others.
Regarding the forage, it depends what items you are giving. Obviously as all the water is removed from dried forage, all the other elements in them become more concentrated.

What dosage of pain killers is he on?

yeah they only made him feel better

So I’m assuming the antibiotics did not make him better?
Sterile cystitis is diagnosed through process of elimination - first of all of antibiotics don’t work (ie it’s not a bacterial infection), bladder stones ruled out etc

The triggers for some piggies may be different for others.
Regarding the forage, it depends what items you are giving. Obviously as all the water is removed from dried forage, all the other elements in them become more concentrated.

What dosage of pain killers is he on?

Yeah the antibiotics would only suppress his symptoms then the crying would start again so I took him to a new vet and she found no bacteria just traces of blood. X-ray shown no stones, just his bladder wall was thickened and inflamed. The bladder shown signs of the stage before sludge would start to form. He’s on gabapentin twice a day 0.1 and on loxicom once a day 0.3. Ahh I see that makes sense