So is she off a/bs for good now? You're just trying to manage the pain, and add in maybe some Polycitra and/or Shillintong?
ALSO. My vet, weirdly, suggested that in some other small animals, glucosamine had been shown to improve some of the symptoms of IC. Has anyone heard of this??
Gaaack. I hate IC.
Purdie - Blindness?
This weekend is her last doses of the Septrim, she's going to be heartbroken as she loves that banana juice! I'll need to find a good substitute to distract her through this traumatic event!
The vet was really pleased with Purdie's progress actually. I guess because we are seeing it day by day we hadn't seen just how much better she had got in just two weeks. Her Metacam is now down to 0.15ml a day and she hardly cries at all now which is such a huge improvement! We're going to take the metacam as low as we can gradually for now. We'll also see how she does without the Septrim.
I'm going to look online for shilintong to see if that can help get rid of the last little bit of un-comfortableness for her.
All in all Purdie is doing a lot better, just a matter of trying a few different things now (lowering the metacam, getting shilintong etc) to see if we can tweak her system even better.
She is still, as ever, the happiest little piggie you could find :)
The vet was really pleased with Purdie's progress actually. I guess because we are seeing it day by day we hadn't seen just how much better she had got in just two weeks. Her Metacam is now down to 0.15ml a day and she hardly cries at all now which is such a huge improvement! We're going to take the metacam as low as we can gradually for now. We'll also see how she does without the Septrim.
I'm going to look online for shilintong to see if that can help get rid of the last little bit of un-comfortableness for her.
All in all Purdie is doing a lot better, just a matter of trying a few different things now (lowering the metacam, getting shilintong etc) to see if we can tweak her system even better.
She is still, as ever, the happiest little piggie you could find :)
Purdie has lost her wheek. We first noticed it at the weekend I think and I was giving her a few days to see if it came back by itself.
She makes a breathy noise instead, just like she's pushing out all the same amount of air that makes that enormous wheek but without the vocals. She has decided to make her normal talky noise now instead, trying to shout it as loud as she can but still making the physical efforts of trying to wheek.
It's possible she strained her vocals somehow, she is the loudest and most persistent wheeker of the herd.
All her behaviour, eating, pooping, diet, environment, energy, happiness, weight is completely normal. Nothing else has changed even a bit.
What causes should I be worrying over?
She makes a breathy noise instead, just like she's pushing out all the same amount of air that makes that enormous wheek but without the vocals. She has decided to make her normal talky noise now instead, trying to shout it as loud as she can but still making the physical efforts of trying to wheek.
It's possible she strained her vocals somehow, she is the loudest and most persistent wheeker of the herd.
All her behaviour, eating, pooping, diet, environment, energy, happiness, weight is completely normal. Nothing else has changed even a bit.
What causes should I be worrying over?
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She maybe losing her hearing. I have/had several seniors over the years do what you are describing. Peabody does it ALL of the time. I have not heard that boy do a real wheek in about two years. He tries real hard, opens his mouth big, but just air comes out. You can tell that if his wheeker did work, he would be REALLY yelling at me.
Sorry Purdie has lost her wheeker :(
Sorry Purdie has lost her wheeker :(
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Sounds very similar to Chilli. Mostly lost her loud wheek with forced air sound instead. I also think she's losing/lost her hearing as she gets so startled sometimes when I appear or Tiggy catches her unaware. Standard purring and chutting are fine though, if anything she does more of these than she used to.
Purdie is coming up for 3.
She's eating normally and not stretching her mouth out or anything like that, I'm pretty sure nothing is stuck.
I hadn't thought of her hearing so I tested her and that's absolutely fine as well. She actually has the best hearing of the lot, and usually leads the wheek chorus as soon as she hears anything promising in the kitchen several rooms away. It's a lot quieter in the house now :/
I'm hoping it comes back, there doesn't seem to be anything to worry about, but she did seem to love to wheek. It hardly seems fair with her being near blind, and with her interstitial cystitis to lose her wheek too!
She's eating normally and not stretching her mouth out or anything like that, I'm pretty sure nothing is stuck.
I hadn't thought of her hearing so I tested her and that's absolutely fine as well. She actually has the best hearing of the lot, and usually leads the wheek chorus as soon as she hears anything promising in the kitchen several rooms away. It's a lot quieter in the house now :/
I'm hoping it comes back, there doesn't seem to be anything to worry about, but she did seem to love to wheek. It hardly seems fair with her being near blind, and with her interstitial cystitis to lose her wheek too!
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Mr. Piggy's wheeker is broken too. That's what we call it anyway! Every now and again a real wheek squeaks out and it startles everyone, including Mr. Piggy. I don't know why. He seems mostly healthy otherwise, other than being 7 years old. He's going to the vet on Monday for possible heart issues.
Hope pretty Purdie gets her wheek back soon!
Hope pretty Purdie gets her wheek back soon!
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