I have a piggie with a hay poke in her eye, unsure if the eye can be saved. She gets eye drops and pain meds, but I kind of fought with my vet about the dose for the pain meds.
I have been given Meloxicam 0,5mg/ml
On the medication page here it says piggies can have 0,2mg/kg. At about 1.1kg my girl should be able to handle 0.44cc
My vet keeps prescribing just a drop or two, which is nowhere near 0.44cc. I am inclined to follow guinealynx instructions over vet instructions on this one…
I am also inclined to split the dose in two instead of just giving it all at once as this site says to do, here I concur with my vet who said give pain meds twice a day.
Help?
Meloxicam dosage
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Lynx
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Doing a duckduckgo search, I ran across this discussion which might even indicate a higher dosage could be helpful.
viewtopic.php?t=72412
I think you are familiar with the signs of pain. One would take pain and response to the meloxicam into account in determining the dosage.
https://www.guinealynx.info/pain.html
viewtopic.php?t=72412
I think you are familiar with the signs of pain. One would take pain and response to the meloxicam into account in determining the dosage.
https://www.guinealynx.info/pain.html
I have been looking around online and found a Dutch site that even has a dosage of 0,5 - 1,5mg/kg. They claim to have literature, but a vet needs to contact them for that.
Hopefully my vet will be open to do some research, I hate for piggies to be wildly underdosed for pain.
Hopefully my vet will be open to do some research, I hate for piggies to be wildly underdosed for pain.
I have been giving the 0,2mg/kg recommended on the medication part of guinealynx, twice a day instead of once. She is definitely more active about half an hour after a dose and towards the twelve hours after she is usually more hunched up. I think she is still generally uncomfortable though, she is moving around a lot less than usual.
And now for something some people will probably not like or understand… her eye cannot be saved and I have no vet around that is comfortable performing eye removal surgery. I cannot afford to travel to a vet practice that could perform the operation (even if they would accept her as a patient which is not a certainty). She will be put to sleep this afternoon as it is definitely not fair to keep her suffering.
And now for something some people will probably not like or understand… her eye cannot be saved and I have no vet around that is comfortable performing eye removal surgery. I cannot afford to travel to a vet practice that could perform the operation (even if they would accept her as a patient which is not a certainty). She will be put to sleep this afternoon as it is definitely not fair to keep her suffering.
Been internet searching and I am hoping that the vet will prescribe another eye ointment and that that will help, I am not quite ready to just give up. Just one site in Dutch with a lot of information, they say it could take weeks to heal, even if the eye will never function again it may heal enough so it won’t be painful or a bother.
Hm...
Our dog vet is best for ey es here in Slovenia..she is the best and i mean it with more than 30years of experiences.
Our dear Ringo was 14+ when he was suffering from glaucoma heavily..his eye pressure was 80 instead of 16..vet said even 25 is alright.
I was kind of beside myself but i did my best and keep my cool. I knew i have too..for him, he deserved it.
And she said eye even if lost cant be reason for euthanasia.(!!!)-and trust me with her it was animals first. Always. Ringo lived for another 2 years and broke on through naturally at almost 16. We looked it as bonus years..just so hype we can still be together..we didnt care about problems..or how much does it take to get it all together..and vets knew they had to make it work. Always. No excuses-and they did.;).
And yeah border collies had problems with eyes in general but with him it was totally old age vet said cause otherwise it would show sooner.
I suggested surgery vet declined cause its too risky + kidney and back were not in great conditions but he was functioning like a legend-cause he was. So recovery after surgery would be even bigger problem than surgery vet said(he had vestribular once, too), but at this age this is excpected,..
I am not trying to tell you what to do..
but if it was just damage from hay..i dont know..you got maxitrol (neomicyn) and tons of other stuff, vets knows which is more suitable..we had
4 drops (3 for glaucoma, maxitrol+tobramicyn for under eye-(not ointment but cream)-there was some damage on the skin under eye. It was everything but easy..but i knew if i even think of giving up somebody please kick me in the ass..y know what i mean. but border collies never give up anyway..is not in the dictionary.
For pain you have meloxicam or meloxicam+gabapentin together ..if meloxicam alone is not working..
But i belive you have hard time and wish you good luck...and more than that.
We currently have diharrea again so its bussy at ours too..
Our dog vet is best for ey es here in Slovenia..she is the best and i mean it with more than 30years of experiences.
Our dear Ringo was 14+ when he was suffering from glaucoma heavily..his eye pressure was 80 instead of 16..vet said even 25 is alright.
I was kind of beside myself but i did my best and keep my cool. I knew i have too..for him, he deserved it.
And she said eye even if lost cant be reason for euthanasia.(!!!)-and trust me with her it was animals first. Always. Ringo lived for another 2 years and broke on through naturally at almost 16. We looked it as bonus years..just so hype we can still be together..we didnt care about problems..or how much does it take to get it all together..and vets knew they had to make it work. Always. No excuses-and they did.;).
And yeah border collies had problems with eyes in general but with him it was totally old age vet said cause otherwise it would show sooner.
I suggested surgery vet declined cause its too risky + kidney and back were not in great conditions but he was functioning like a legend-cause he was. So recovery after surgery would be even bigger problem than surgery vet said(he had vestribular once, too), but at this age this is excpected,..
I am not trying to tell you what to do..
but if it was just damage from hay..i dont know..you got maxitrol (neomicyn) and tons of other stuff, vets knows which is more suitable..we had
4 drops (3 for glaucoma, maxitrol+tobramicyn for under eye-(not ointment but cream)-there was some damage on the skin under eye. It was everything but easy..but i knew if i even think of giving up somebody please kick me in the ass..y know what i mean. but border collies never give up anyway..is not in the dictionary.
For pain you have meloxicam or meloxicam+gabapentin together ..if meloxicam alone is not working..
But i belive you have hard time and wish you good luck...and more than that.
We currently have diharrea again so its bussy at ours too..
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Lynx
- Resist!!!
The most difficult cases I have read about here have to do with eradicating an infection. In a couple cases (I think one of the guinea pigs was Kleenmama's), it never completely resolved.
There are indeed some guinea pigs here who have lived good lives even though blind. SardonicSmile, I trust your decisions implicitly.
There are indeed some guinea pigs here who have lived good lives even though blind. SardonicSmile, I trust your decisions implicitly.
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