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Old 09-09-2013, 03:55 PM   #11
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Oh god yes, after I bring my little bear to Tadhg's practice. Yeah, I've been thinking more about: her cage is cleaned regularly, great diet, plenty of free running, no other animals or people, just a nice quiet stress free life! She is still limping/dragging her leg.There's no diarrhoea, poop streaks or anything in her bedding or sawdust. Her eyes are bright, but she just very lethargic. Definitely something is wrong. Just see what the vet says.
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Old 09-09-2013, 04:56 PM   #12
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Oh Hetty, I'm so sorry this is happening and you are so upset. That vet is a total jerk...no lie. You must report him. We pay for their services, it's sure not for free. How unkind and downright mean of him. If he doesn't want to work with exotics, fine. Just refer people out. I wouldn't want any animal of mine near him. Wait it out until morning and your regular vet. I think Souffle has it right. You've done what you can for now. I know we'll all be waiting to see what the vet says. Poor Lola. One thing and another {Hugs to you both}
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Old 09-10-2013, 03:15 AM   #13
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Okay, Lola has seen the vet. Got her a 9 am appointment. Didn't seem to want food, until at 7 am I feed her some warm porridge made with water and milk ( no salt or sugars). Wolfed it down!!!
Tadhg's prognosis is good and bad:
Definitely not wet tail....her bum and haunches are wet and raw due to her urinating so much. So, she has a kidney infection.
Bad news though: as he felt her abdomen he felt her right kidney was very enlarged. He said that may be inflammation, but given that she is limping on her right leg, it may very well be a tumour. Like Souffle said, it very well be pinching/pushing on her nerves, causing the limp. As to being benign or cancerous? Not sure, only time will tell.
So, she's on a course of Baytril antibiotic for a week, was given an injection of it plus an anti-inflammatory. Then I'm back on Tuesday next to see if the inflammation has gone down.....
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Old 09-10-2013, 11:17 AM   #14
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I think it's a case of see how it goes and take each day at a time. My thoughts would be that this probable tumour has also affected the nerves serving the bladder so she may no longer have bladder control so the urine is leaking constantly on to her skin leading to urine burns. This is a serious state of affairs especially if the skin were to become infected. I would try and keep her as dry as possible. Use very absorbant toilet tissue bedding and clean very often. Wipe her with clean boiled cooled water to keep the urine off the skin and maybe consider some sort of barrier cream. The vet may be able to suggest something but I have heard of sudocrem being used or maybe plain vaseline?
I do hope she responds quickly to the meds xx
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Old 09-10-2013, 01:44 PM   #15
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Thanks Souffle for the advice. I checked her haunches and bedding, they're not soiled or wet. Nice and dry. Whew! Not like last night. So not sure if the tumour or what ever the lump is has reached her bladder. It may do in time though.....

I think the antibiotics are already having some effect. She is definitely not urinating as much as yesterday or last night. She's just still very lethargic, maybe that might be the pain killers? Cause when she was with the vet, she was full of beans, wandering around.
Though one thing: I haven't heard her at her water-bottle all day. I have given her 2 table spoons of water with a little drop of milk in it to entice her this evening, which she drank up and a saw her take a few nibbles out a carrot. She had another tbsp of watery milk in the morning before the vet.
How can I get her to drink??
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Old 09-10-2013, 02:13 PM   #16
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If she has drunk that amount that sounds like more than enough water for a hamster. They are not meant to drink a huge amount remember. Good to hear the meds seem to be helping. It could be cystitis in the bladder and that will make her wee a lot. Is she OK with milk as it often they don't tolerate it.
3 tablespoons of fluid in a day is a decent intake. You could give some porridge or babyfood to provide additional fluid but I think that is fine.
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Old 09-11-2013, 04:06 AM   #17
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Okay, was just worried! I forget they're small creatures with desert kidneys. She seems very lethargic and normally, even with her leg, every morning she'll come bounding out for her milk. ( Oh, its very watered down or sour, she seems to love it and her tummy tolerates it) But not now. I think she may be just sleeping more due to illness and her ordinary routine has been haywired due to me trying to protect her leg.
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Old 09-11-2013, 06:19 AM   #18
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Oh no! hope you get her checked soon, the fluff is really bad, one of my old hamster had that stuff in and he got stuck during the night and when i got up, he'd died, coz he couldn't get to his food or water as it wrapped around his leg
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Old 09-11-2013, 12:10 PM   #19
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Hi Kayleigh, I did get her checked out yesterday. She has a urinary tract infection plus a lump.
But does anyone have any ideas how I'm going to get the Baytril into her???? Tuesday the vet injected it in to her scruff, but she refused her milk this morning and I haven't seen or heard her drink!!!! She is very lethargic and doesn't want to come out of her nest......plus she has suddenly become very nippy!!!
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Old 09-11-2013, 12:24 PM   #20
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Whenever I have to give my lot baytril I just wrap them up in a towel so just there heads poking out stick the syringe in the side of the mouth and gently squeeze it in, unless it's kuro who puts up one hell of a fight as soon as he see's the syringe so I scruff him and try to get it in his mouth as quick as possible
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