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Swollen testicles & not pooing

Good luck with your appointment @Little Ones :hug: I really hope it’s nothing serious and Simon can help him, so sorry you’re going through all this. Massive hugs and healing vibes from us xx
 
Don’t want to properly get into it until we get home but thought I should let you all know.
The prognosis is really bad. If there’s no improvement in a few days then we will have to euthanise
 
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope the next few days bring a great improvement.
 
I’m so sorry, I’ve been through this the past few days. It’s horrendous not going to lie but this forum has been amazing offering fantastic support. I do hope your piggy pulls through x
 
Oh no. I’m really sorry to read this, been following your thread. I really hope things improve quickly.
 
Thank you everyone, I really appreciate it.

Simon had a very good physical examination and could find nothing. He looked at the X-ray taken yesterday by our local exotic vet. On the X-ray, it showed that he had a thickened tissue of the bowel. Simon believes BB has a bowel associated disease, which bowels can’t be operated on to fix. He said that BB is very very weak. We told him about the heaving/retching last night to which Simon was very shocked that BB had even lasted the night. He said BB had a high temperature/fever and just seemed very flat. His also said his stomach feels bigger than it should, to which he mentioned the possibility of gastric dilation developing. Our Peanut died of this at the end of October :( Simon said if this starts happening, then we will definitely lose him.
He wants to try an antibiotic on the off chance that there’s something going on, but he isn’t very hopeful. He also said we should give the emeprid.
BB is now on tramadol, metacam, emeprid, cisapride, and metronidazole. If things don’t improve within a few days then we should euthanise.
I was so worried the whole car ride home that he will have died in the crate. Thankfully he hadn’t, we gave him a veg feast when we got home which he ate a decent amount of. We have also split him from his cage mate, his cage mate is about 4 months old and with BB being ill, he has been pushing the boundaries and upsetting BB on the rare occasion he’s come out for some readigrass. BB isn’t up for much socialisation either so thought it was the best thing to keep BB comfortable.
 
Thanks everyone :( it’s very sad news. I don’t know how this has happened. He’s not had an easy life and only just found happiness around 6 weeks ago. It’s really upsetting, I expected him to be around for a few more years. I really wanted him to have had more happy days than fearful days in his life, but it doesn’t look like that’s on the cards. He’s only young, about 15 months old, when we got him he was so afraid to even be alive. He doesn’t deserve to have lived afraid for so long just to die when he’s finally found the happiness he should’ve had all along. It’s just cruel and unfair.
We have to make our last days with him count, but I don’t know how to do that. He’s too weak to enjoy floortime, too weak to deal with his cage mate, and still too wary of people to want to sit with us.

Last night, he didn’t want to eat his grass. He ate some readigrass and some lettuce though (he loves lettuce). Hopefully he wants the grass today, Simon emphasised that it’s the best thing he could be eating right now. He also isn’t drinking for himself but managed to syringe him some water in the night.
 
Sending so much love. It really is very unfair and I’m so sorry for you and him. I hope he’s managing to eat some grass this morning x
 
Oh gosh sending you big hugs, I’ve missed so much with being away with our trip yesterday to Northampton and back to take Mikey for his dental and collect Hector and Kiki from Debbie’s. I’m so sorry for your sad news, fingers crossed the AB’s help and you get more time with him, life is so unfair for us and these little creatures sometime, despite all the love and care they become so ill, poor little BB
 
Thanks everyone, I’m feeling quite down but the nice and supportive comments are uplifting :)
He has grass in his cage but he doesn’t want it, he only eats grass outside his cage. He eats readigrass now and then in his cage though. We’re trying to find a balance between him sleeping, waking up himself and eating some readigrass, and us waking him up to give him grass or syringe food. We don’t want to bother him too much. He’s had two small piles of grass today, we got him out for a third but he wasn’t interested.
Sometimes he sleeps laying down with his leg out, other times he sleeps standing up. I heard him make a pain noise once or twice this morning, but think he’s ok. I haven’t left his side at all today, I want to be here so that I will be able to see/hear when he’s eating or in any pain so that I can make an informed decision regarding euthanasia should I need to. He doesn’t feel as hot today, so hopefully his fever has gone or reduced.
He had some syringed pellets this morning and then some emeraid sustain arrived at 11 which BB liked. Thank you @Bill & Ted for the suggestion of getting this for Little, Little likes it too but will come in handy for BB now as well!
We are just so worried about him, but hopefully he pulls through and the antibiotics help his bowels. I’m really worried about gastric dilatation happening as there’s nothing to fix that. Simon said his stomach felt larger, which is what’s worrying me. Simon didn’t spend much time talking about this so he must not be overly concerned, but it’s just nagging in my head.
We had him out for a floor time just now, and he ate a bit of cardboard off the almost demolished carrot cottage. We also put out a hay roll thingy for him, so kind of like a hay rack and he ate 1 single strand of hay from it. Only one strand, but it was enough that both my mum and I started tearing up. Hopefully it’s a step in the right direction and not a one off 🤞
 
Aw, hang in there BB we are all rooting for you little fella. So glad he and Little like the Emeraid, it does seem popular with piggies who try it. Hope BB picks up soon with the AB’s once they kick in x
Try not to worry about Simon’s commenting on his larger tummy, I think the fact you cannot speak with him “in person” makes everything seem so much worse and it’s so difficult to tell exactly what he means.
 
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