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Domperidone Dosage - Need some numbers!!!

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Snooba

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Hello there, fellow bunny owners.

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My bun Mandy (a 10 pound Cinnamon bun, with an unusually thick fur coat, she might look fat, but its 90% fur :lol:) suffers from chronic stasis, and has been in constant stasis since November of last year.

For a month and a half now , she has been doing great with a daily dosis of injectable Metoclopramide (I am giving her the SubQ injections myself). She is getting one shot of 1mg a day, and this allows her to poop like a normal bunny.

We did try oral Cisapride and Metoclopramide, but it did very little, hence why we are doing the injections.

Now, we are looking at a life time treatment, and Metoclopramide affects the brain directly, making her go hyper for an hour or so, and I am truly afraid of messing her heart up...we are talking about 365 injections in a year...scary to just think about it.

Now...I saw in a thread in this forum, that some people were giving Domperidone to their buns...and I am willing to give it a try, so I can stop injecting her so often.

My vet isn't used to this drug, so any numbers you can give me, would be of great use :)

Thanks!
 
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thumps_ would be the best person in my opinion to answer you on this, her bun, Thumper has been on domperidone for a very long time to counteract serious ileus/caecum issues :wave:
 
Jack's-Jane said:
Has your Rabbit had any diagnostics to try to establish the actual cause of her GI tract issues ?
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Yeah, we did a full study. Dental ok, Ultrasound came back ok...bloodwork ok...X-Rays ok and so on. Good diet...you name it.

So we are pretty much in the dark as what might be the real cause.

My vet thinks that since she got this so young (she is just over a year old) that it might be poor innervation in her gut and that we might just have to deal with the symptoms since the cause has no cure at all.
 
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