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Sorry to hear he's having more problems, sometimes eye rolling can go hand in hand with tilty buns. My tilty bun didn't really suffer with it but I got him some meclizine anyway which you can crush up as it's in tablet form. Not available in the UK but you can buy it online, it is meant to help with dizziness and eye rolling (I think it's called nystagmus, might have the spelling wrong).New symptom :/
His eyes are now rolling. It's hard to say what direction.. To be honest I'd be inclined to say diagonally, bottom left (ear side) to top right (nose side).. If that makes sense?
Am I right in thinking up-down is usually brain and left-right is usually indicative of infection? Not sure what diagonal says? :?
I should note this has started after extreme amounts of stress. Up until today he's been taking meds all on his own, didn't even need to pick him up. However I've just had a 10 minute+ long fight with him to get him to take the lapizole. He normally loves it but he's been fighting it like anything today
New symptom :/
His eyes are now rolling. It's hard to say what direction.. To be honest I'd be inclined to say diagonally, bottom left (ear side) to top right (nose side).. If that makes sense?
Am I right in thinking up-down is usually brain and left-right is usually indicative of infection? Not sure what diagonal says? :?
I should note this has started after extreme amounts of stress. Up until today he's been taking meds all on his own, didn't even need to pick him up. However I've just had a 10 minute+ long fight with him to get him to take the lapizole. He normally loves it but he's been fighting it like anything today
Thank you all, and thank you for all the links Jane. They've been really helpful.
I'll update after seeing the specialist tomorrow. On the positive side I've not seen him fall over backwards tonight like he was earlier and yesterday while periscoping. He also went through his veg tonight as though it would disappear in front of him if he didn't have it fast enough. I'm not sure I've ever seen a bunny eat so fast.
Regarding meds, I'll pick up some fruit puree tomorrow but I doubt it will help. He loves the taste of the lapizole (weird lil thing!) but he's obviously had enough of it now. Fruit puree never fools any of mine :roll:
Thank you all again xx
Yeah, I've seen it affect a lot of breeds. I'm just wondering if there's something about rexes that makes them more prone? I don't know.Sadly I've had many buns with EC, all different breeds. The one thing I've found is that it's usually secondary to something else. The seem to carry it without symptoms then as soon as the immune system gets compromised by stress or another underlying illness the EC takes hold.
Just a little update in case anyone's interested.
Harley has been improving very slowly. His balance has been improving and he rarely falls down anymore. He's gone over backwards once or twice when he's got himself over excited (usually for food :roll but generally his balance is good again. Head tilt is still there a bit but nowhere near as bad and sometimes he can hold it quite well. He's also eating normally instead of throwing his head back or sideways.
Still got a long way to go but there's been some definite improvement and he's doing really well considering. I feel the sulfatrim has helped him tremendously as he started to improve from there.
To be honest I was expecting any improvement to take a lot longer so I'm so pleased to see him picking up well.
Just thought I'd post a quick update on the off chancce anyone might want to know. I'm so pleased my precious boy is doing better.
As long as he doesn't go down again suddenly for some reason I think he might pull through this after all and - I hope - possibly go back to normal
As a nice bonus he's gone back to taking the syringe easily again without me having to even pick him up. Even the antibiotic! He hesitates but the words 'good boy!' said with enthusiasm seem to get him to take it every time! It's amazing how quickly they learn things through such a simple positive reinforcement like verbal praise!
And yet you still get people who question a rabbits intelligence and ability to learn verbal cues :roll:
Anyway, I digress.
Tldr: Harley is improving well