neeshkabeesh
Warren Scout
Sorry this is long, its a four month story.
My rabbit Phoebe is a lionhead and is a year old, although she is fully grown she is a small stunted rabbit. She has a tooth abscess in her upper jaw on her back left hand side. I only realised she had it when she got a big lump on her face under her eye, this was cleaned out and sewn open under anaesthetic. For almost three weeks I cleaned the open wound out daily, she had oral baytril and had injectable baytril put topically inside the wound after I'd cleaned it, then vetalintex gel put inside the wound. She also had metacam. She had the stitches out after about three weeks and it healed up (the wound was virtually healed by this point despite the stitches still holding it open). The root of it was always there into her tooth abscess, so the cheek abscess just filled up again after a while, I have cleaned it out twice since but obviously its never going to be cured. I have just tried to clean it out again and now it seems that there is a third encapsulated abscess further forward on the side ridge of her nose, the root of this is in the cheek abscess and the root of that is in the tooth abscess.
I'm beginning to feel desperate about it. The vet has always said in the end she will probably need to be put to sleep and as long as she is eating and drinking and running around and being happy and if I am happy with her then we just need to maintain the metacam and clean it out when it needs it. Now she basically has three abscesses I think it has gone too far, even though she hasn't lost weight and still eats she was in visible pain after I'd cleaned out the nose abscess, and during. I had to squeeze the cheek abscess to get the pus into the wound where the nose abscess was to get it out, I don't know whether I should have done this or not but it has reduced the pressure in the cheek abscess so I thought she would feel more comfortable.
I don't think this is right anymore, but I read threads of other rabbits having multiple flushes, medicine, pain killers and operations and I think that I should maybe keep going with her. I feel like you're going to tell me to take her back to the vet and have it cleaned under anaesthetic again, rather than just allowing her to go. It will just refill again, I believe the tooth abscess is incurable and its feeding the others. Can you help?
My rabbit Phoebe is a lionhead and is a year old, although she is fully grown she is a small stunted rabbit. She has a tooth abscess in her upper jaw on her back left hand side. I only realised she had it when she got a big lump on her face under her eye, this was cleaned out and sewn open under anaesthetic. For almost three weeks I cleaned the open wound out daily, she had oral baytril and had injectable baytril put topically inside the wound after I'd cleaned it, then vetalintex gel put inside the wound. She also had metacam. She had the stitches out after about three weeks and it healed up (the wound was virtually healed by this point despite the stitches still holding it open). The root of it was always there into her tooth abscess, so the cheek abscess just filled up again after a while, I have cleaned it out twice since but obviously its never going to be cured. I have just tried to clean it out again and now it seems that there is a third encapsulated abscess further forward on the side ridge of her nose, the root of this is in the cheek abscess and the root of that is in the tooth abscess.
I'm beginning to feel desperate about it. The vet has always said in the end she will probably need to be put to sleep and as long as she is eating and drinking and running around and being happy and if I am happy with her then we just need to maintain the metacam and clean it out when it needs it. Now she basically has three abscesses I think it has gone too far, even though she hasn't lost weight and still eats she was in visible pain after I'd cleaned out the nose abscess, and during. I had to squeeze the cheek abscess to get the pus into the wound where the nose abscess was to get it out, I don't know whether I should have done this or not but it has reduced the pressure in the cheek abscess so I thought she would feel more comfortable.
I don't think this is right anymore, but I read threads of other rabbits having multiple flushes, medicine, pain killers and operations and I think that I should maybe keep going with her. I feel like you're going to tell me to take her back to the vet and have it cleaned under anaesthetic again, rather than just allowing her to go. It will just refill again, I believe the tooth abscess is incurable and its feeding the others. Can you help?