[Gpdd] Health: Piggie in pain!

[Lauren Cordeiro]

Hi Nicola,
Did they give her any pain meds? My baby girl got spayed a while ago, although she was in better health at the time, and she was walking normally and eating within hours of the surgery. She was injected w/ a pain med immediately following the surgery. If Lily keeps limping I would definitely get some pain meds for her. Inthe meantime, try syringe feeding her, Critical Care if you have it or at least water. You could also mush up the pellets and add some OJ to the mix and syringe feed her. The more food she gets, the better her chances of a speedy recovery.
Just curious, did Lily get stitches or staples?
Best wishes,
Piglet, Pooh Bear and slave Lauren


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Hello,

I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my posting a while back about 
Lily possibly having ovarian cysts. Well I took her to the vets and he 
agreed that it was definately something along those lines, but hormonal 
treatments wouldn't work, because he couldn't be sure exactly what it was. 
There are many problems that can cause exactly the same problems, such as 
renal cysts or a tumour in the pituitary gland.

So we agreed that we would x-ray her to try and determine the problem. So 
today I took her to the vets today for her x-ray. They phoned me at work and 
said that nothing was showing up on the x-ray so they wanted to do 
explorative surgery. Well it turned out that it was indeed ovarian cysts, so 
they spayed her.

I have bought her home this evening and she is in an awful lot of pain! She 
is hopping instead of walking and she squeaks every time she makes even the 
slightest movement! She will not eat or drink anything and I can't syringe 
feed her because she hides her head in a corner and screams in pain if I 
pick her up!

I don't know if this is normal for a pig after surgery but I really don't 
like it! I am just hoping that she will be in less pain by the morning and 
that she starts to eat and drink again.

If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it, as I am at a loss to 
what I can do for her!

Thanks a lot,
Nicola