parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
Peach Blossom is a c8 months lionhead lop who had a rough start in life - including probably being mistreated or mishamndled, and then being purposely left near a rubbish chute, rescued, having a pretty bad spay, having area of post spay infection on the uterine stump that was not picked up by the vet that spayed her (NOT mine) , having to have a further major operation to remove infection (by my vet so good op.) , and now being left with a slightly thickened wall in part of small intestine (found on ultrasound scan).
The cause of the thickening may be trauma, or possibly resulting from old bacterial infection to do with the post spay infection.
So thats the background . .
Now the on-going problem -
On an occasional irregular basis (about one every 2 weeks) she will have discomfort in her stomach.
This does not appear to me to be a classic 'stasis' or have involvement of gas, or bloat or anything of that sort of nature as the position she sits in, feel of stmach etc etc do not seem to have any gas involvement, - but instead from her general demeanour and movements there is a slight general discomfort accompanied by a sort of 'wariness', with then every few minutes a 'jab' of pain.
On these days (it generally lasts about 12 hours) she will be very very picky about food - just eat grass or apple sticks, or fresh geranium leaves, or hay, and even then cautiously as though anxious this will cause the jab of pain.
Her poos are generally small anyway, and she does not get sloppy or enlarged poos associated with the episodes.
She has always been a bit 'take it or leave it' with her caecal pellets.
She is on ranitidine and metacam every day (started this after last episode and it seemed to be working well and she had fabulous appetite at first on it so sorry to see she is having another episode now ) , and also in the past and today when she has the episodes we have given metaclopromide.
`Obviously I would like to help her get over the episodes quicker or preferably not have them at all.
Has anyone any ideas/experience of same/ ??
Sorry for the long essay but hoping for ideas.
Also ideas of what to try and give her in the way of gentle meds would be good (would biolapis help at all??)
She is by the way quite a stressy bun - suspect she was really mishandled when very young.
PS scan showed nothing odd in bladder or kidneys etc etc.
The cause of the thickening may be trauma, or possibly resulting from old bacterial infection to do with the post spay infection.
So thats the background . .
Now the on-going problem -
On an occasional irregular basis (about one every 2 weeks) she will have discomfort in her stomach.
This does not appear to me to be a classic 'stasis' or have involvement of gas, or bloat or anything of that sort of nature as the position she sits in, feel of stmach etc etc do not seem to have any gas involvement, - but instead from her general demeanour and movements there is a slight general discomfort accompanied by a sort of 'wariness', with then every few minutes a 'jab' of pain.
On these days (it generally lasts about 12 hours) she will be very very picky about food - just eat grass or apple sticks, or fresh geranium leaves, or hay, and even then cautiously as though anxious this will cause the jab of pain.
Her poos are generally small anyway, and she does not get sloppy or enlarged poos associated with the episodes.
She has always been a bit 'take it or leave it' with her caecal pellets.
She is on ranitidine and metacam every day (started this after last episode and it seemed to be working well and she had fabulous appetite at first on it so sorry to see she is having another episode now ) , and also in the past and today when she has the episodes we have given metaclopromide.
`Obviously I would like to help her get over the episodes quicker or preferably not have them at all.
Has anyone any ideas/experience of same/ ??
Sorry for the long essay but hoping for ideas.
Also ideas of what to try and give her in the way of gentle meds would be good (would biolapis help at all??)
She is by the way quite a stressy bun - suspect she was really mishandled when very young.
PS scan showed nothing odd in bladder or kidneys etc etc.
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