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firstly, i am in australia, zoe is nearly 3.5 years old and before chrissy we noticed she was acting out of character so took to the vet. he said she was getting too much sugar. so we cut out all the sweets, about 2 weeks later zoe started to bleed it wasn't coming from where she urinates nor where she passes faeces it was just below this. this was on a saturday around 5.00pm. no vets up here were open so had to go 40kms to the emergency vet who knew nothing about guinea pigs. so we left her in over night. they treated her for an infection of uterus where she had to have 3 injections of terramycin spread 1 every 3 days. well she got better and was like a baby again. last injection was chrissy eve. well janauary 2nd she started to bleed again, had no penion until pension came in but our vet always lets us pay when we can. she got another injection and were told to go to the animal hopsital at trinity gardens-40kms away, well they wouldn't see her as we had no money. so we ended up taking her to a vet up here, who said she could feel a mass in zoe's abdomen size of index finger to the knuckle. she said 3 opitions x-rays which wouldn't show much, ultra sound, or surgery. to come back on saturday for another injection. which we did, this was same vet surgery but different vet, she said she could feel different lumps to what the other vet felt, and suggested xrays and she gave zoe 100mls of terrmycin in her back, zoe weighs 0.9kgs. is this too much terrimycin? i don't know what it is like where you live but here in south australia we can't find vets that know about guinea pigs, we had one but for some reason he retired. the reason zoe got the injection today was just to give them time to do research in how to treat zoe. zoe i sindoors and is here with me with the fan on as it is 37C here today-am so over summer, cool change tomorrow but back to 41C by thursday. i feel they are using zoe as a guinea pig and don't know what they are doing. zoe has never had 100mls of terrmycin before and has always had it in the neck not on her back. i have about 20 guinea pig books but could find nothing there to help me. any help would be gratefully appreciated. sorry for the lost post. :tickedoff: