[Gpdd] [HEALTH] piggy still not eating or drinking - seen vet

[Margi Grant]

We have been taking her to the Animal and Bird Hospital in Del Mar (Dr. 
Stonebreaker). They were recommended by the local regular vets for 
exotics.   She was pretty woozy the day of surgery, so we mostly let her 
sleep.  I started the baby food the next day.  She still takes the 
Critical Care fine, and the water, she just does not initiate any 
feeding or drinking.  I can now feel along her jaw and I think the 
molars are again a problem (no chewing for 2 weeks!).  Her front teeth 
are practically next to each other and now too long also.  Her mouth is 
also starting to get that funky smell again that the vet thought might 
be an infection (she finished the course of antibiotics).  What kills me 
is that she was fine after surgery but now it seems impossible for her 
to start eating by herself again.  I had thought I could just feed her 
indefinitely, but now I see that she's getting increasingly 
uncomfortable as the teeth grow....there must have been *some* time in 
the last 2 weeks that she wasn't in pain, but she never ate.......

I'm so happy your little one is doing so good.  I just don't understand 
why Oreo didn't snap out of it and start eating again (or at least 
drink!).  I haven't even seen her *try*.

Perhaps a second opinion would help...thanks.

Margi


New Dominant II wrote:

>I'm going through a teeth problem right now ... my little girl had surgery
>yesterday ... yesterday she was taking Critical Care very enthusiatically
>minutes after I brought her home ... same first thing this morning ... but
>at her second feeding (I've been feeding her Critical Care every 3 hours
>since I noticed she had the slobbers Saturday night), she wouldn't eat more
>than a mouthful if that.  I tried giving her Vanilla then Strawberry High
>Protein Boost (thinking she'd take liquid), but she wouldn't take those
>either.  I called the vet this afternoon after his appointment hours and he
>prescribed a pain medication, thinking that the pain medication he had used
>yesterday during surgery had worn off and she wouldn't eat because of the
>discomfort.  Within half an hour of giving a dose, she was eating hay and
>pellets on her own!
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>BTW, who is your vet?  I notice you're in the San Diego area.  I may be able
>to give you information on a second opinion.
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>on 10/21/03 8:44 PM, Margi Grant at mgrant1 at san.rr.com wrote:
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>>My darling Oreo stopped eating and drinking 2 1/2 weeks ago.  I took her
>>to the "exotics" vet, and he diagnosed an overgrown molar.  He put her
>>under and trimmed it, and said there was also a cut from it on her
>>tongue.  He said she'd be back to eating that night or the next day.
>>That was Monday 2 weeks ago!  Since then we've been back for antibiotics
>>the day after surgery(he thought maybe it was infected), and again for a
>>follow-up visit 4 days after surgery as she was still not eating and I
>>was keeping her going on water from an eyedropper and syringes of baby
>>food carrots and applesauce and banana mix with C added.  She had only
>>lost .01 lbs.  So they said everything looked good and gave me a
>>canister of Critical Care food mix to feed by syringe, hoping to
>>stimulate her to eat by herself.  Well, here we are 1 1/2 weeks later,
>>still won't eat or even drink from her water bottle ( I even tried a
>>smaller hampster one).  I have to change her bedding several times a day
>>as her poops are extremely soft and mushy and she doesn't bother to move
>>to pee or poop anymore.  I can tell she's lost weight, and she's stopped
>>running around "chuggling" happily.  I can see her front teeth getting
>>longer and longer as she's not chewing much, and they are not aligned.
>>I'm afraid soon she won't even be able to eat the CC formula.   If I
>>wasn't an at-home mom she wouldn't have lasted this long
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>>My heart is breaking and any ideas would be appreciated....I suspect the
>>vet is also out of ideas, and my husband is losing patience as we're
>>already $285 into this with no solution in sight.
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>>TIA, Margi
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