GI Upset
::sigh:: It's morning and nothing has changed. Piggy's still eating and lounging the same as ever. The vet hasn't called me back yet about the antibiotics. The tech asked me "is he vomiting?" Um, no, guinea pigs can't vomit. She kept banging something while on the phone with me so I have no idea if she even wrote it down. I'll have to keep calling back. I want my baby to be ok. I just don't know what the right answer is to help him be ok.
- cavyslave8
- I GAVE, dammit!
I'm sorry I don't have any medical advice but I'm thinking of you and Piggy. I know how much you love the little guy.
Thank you cavyslave.
I'm still waiting on calls back from both vets. I suppose I can't really do anything until I get off work anyway. My "regular" vet seemed very cool with prescribing an antibiotic over the phone and asked me which one it was I didn't like that the other vet gave me. Seemed to agree cephalexin was a bad choice.
I'm still waiting on calls back from both vets. I suppose I can't really do anything until I get off work anyway. My "regular" vet seemed very cool with prescribing an antibiotic over the phone and asked me which one it was I didn't like that the other vet gave me. Seemed to agree cephalexin was a bad choice.
ugg, so BOTH vets called me back at exactly the same time and BOTH of them are insistent on giving me friggin Baytril even though BOTH have records showing his stasis as a result of that med when I first adopted him. ::sigh:: I campaigned SO hard with this one vet and she said "look this is getting really difficult." WTF? She's acting like she's never called a medicine into a pharmacy before.
Mum, it just makes me want to dissolve into tears. If I weren't at work, I probably would. Finally the "this is getting difficult" doctor called me back and agreed to call the medicine into the Publix. She seems SURPRISED they carry this medication and surprised I knew the concentration of the standard pediatric suspension. Obviously, she's never logged onto GuineaLynx. I don't think she's ever called in a prescription to a pharmacy before. She told me Baytril was the absolute only thing they had on hand in a small enough dose and compounding cipro was the only other option that existed, period. What's up with all this nonsense?
Oh, and the bactrim is going to be FREE at the publix. I'm guessing the docs at this vet get profit sharing on prescribed medications. The surgeon has been much more understanding on his Baytril intolerance but is out of town for a funeral today. THAT I can sympathize with. Hey, if I get 2 rounds of ABs from 2 different vets, someone told me "it lasts forever." I'm very carefully waiting until I have this medication in my hands before I cancel the surgery with "this is getting difficult" vet. I hate being difficult, but Baytril might kill Piggy if he's already compromised. He was perfectly healthy the last time he took it and ended up in stasis on cisapride and simethicone, not pooping for something like 3 days.
Oh, and the bactrim is going to be FREE at the publix. I'm guessing the docs at this vet get profit sharing on prescribed medications. The surgeon has been much more understanding on his Baytril intolerance but is out of town for a funeral today. THAT I can sympathize with. Hey, if I get 2 rounds of ABs from 2 different vets, someone told me "it lasts forever." I'm very carefully waiting until I have this medication in my hands before I cancel the surgery with "this is getting difficult" vet. I hate being difficult, but Baytril might kill Piggy if he's already compromised. He was perfectly healthy the last time he took it and ended up in stasis on cisapride and simethicone, not pooping for something like 3 days.