Injury Nami Medical Thread - HAY POKE

Nannub · Nov 17, 2015

My chubby girl Nami woke up yesterday with a squinting eye. I was having money problems but I managed to get money and make a vet appointment for tomorrow at 6. Anything I could do to help her until tomorrow? Help is appreciated.

Nannub · Nov 17, 2015

Kelsie said:
I'm not sure what you could do for the eye until your appointment. Maybe someone else will have some advice for you. I just wanted to tell you that my pig had a hay poke and the vet gave her some eye drops and within just 24 hours her eye looked so much better. By day two her eye was completely back to normal.

I hope your Nami will respond as quickly.

thank you so much. I've been feeling so sad and worried. I'll definitely be switching from timothy to orchard grass after this situation

SquigglyPigs · Nov 17, 2015

Basically the only thing you can do is try to rinse it with saline. That may or may not help. One of my pigs severly poked her eye on something in her cage last summer and she actually had an indent in the eyeball from it. Her eye got cloudy white and red in color and it looked absolutely horrible. The vet gave us medicated eye drops and although it looked so terrible, it healed completely and she's totally fine now. Eye issues tend to look worse than they are. I'm sure your piggy will be fine

Nannub · Nov 17, 2015

allisonj30 said:
Basically the only thing you can do is try to rinse it with saline. That may or may not help. One of my pigs severly poked her eye on something in her cage last summer and she actually had an indent in the eyeball from it. Her eye got cloudy white and red in color and it looked absolutely horrible. The vet gave us medicated eye drops and although it looked so terrible, it healed completely and she's totally fine now. Eye issues tend to look worse than they are. I'm sure your piggy will be fine

Thanks! I hope so too! I'll be worried until tomorrow after the vet. Hopefully it's nothing serious. I'll try to rinse it tonight and keep you update.

PudgePig · Nov 17, 2015

One of mine actually had a piece of hay stuck in her eye. I took her to the vet immediately (emergency appt.). He removed it and gave me an antibiotic ointment to place in her eye for a few days. She healed well, with no negative side effects. (It was Timothy hay.)
Hope all goes well tomorrow at the vet!

Nannub · Nov 17, 2015

PudgePig said:
One of mine actually had a piece of hay stuck in her eye. I took her to the vet immediately (emergency appt.). He removed it and gave me an antibiotic ointment to place in her eye for a few days. She healed well, with no negative side effects. (It was Timothy hay.)
Hope all goes well tomorrow at the vet!

I'm starting to dislike timothy hay. My pig seems to be okay at the moment but I'll see what the vet says tomorrow. I couldn't make an emergency appointment because sadly I work until 5.30 everyday and the vet wasn't working late. The cavy savy I like (she's my other pig's vet) is there tomorrow so yay! Question, how much would antibiotics cost me?

Nannub · Nov 17, 2015

Also, she's bonded to my other pig Victoria. Do I have to take them together so they don't separate and don't have dominance problems later? Maybe it's a dumb question but I'm wondering

Soecara · Nov 17, 2015

It depends, how long will the car ride be? How do they get along in a small space? How do they act when separated for lap time?

For one of my boar pairs I always take both when I go to the vet. They absolutely hate being separated, even for lap time and they get along really well in the carry cage as they cuddle up to each other for the whole care ride. The ride to my vet is either 10 minutes or an hour and a half, depending on which clinic my vet is at on the given day. One of my other boar pairs prefers their space so I always only take the one, there is no way they would tolerate being in the carrier together.

Nannub · Nov 17, 2015

Soecara said:
It depends, how long will the car ride be? How do they get along in a small space? How do they act when separated for lap time?

For one of my boar pairs I always take both when I go to the vet. They absolutely hate being separated, even for lap time and they get along really well in the carry cage as they cuddle up to each other for the whole care ride. The ride to my vet is either 10 minutes or an hour and a half, depending on which clinic my vet is at on the given day. One of my other boar pairs prefers their space so I always only take the one, there is no way they would tolerate being in the carrier together.

Last few times I handled them separately the other one in the cage looked for the other pig and wheeked non stop. They sleep next to each other in small piggy beds.

Nannub · Nov 17, 2015

@Soecara

PudgePig · Nov 17, 2015

Nannub said:
I'm starting to dislike timothy hay. My pig seems to be okay at the moment but I'll see what the vet says tomorrow. I couldn't make an emergency appointment because sadly I work until 5.30 everyday and the vet wasn't working late. The cavy savy I like (she's my other pig's vet) is there tomorrow so yay! Question, how much would antibiotics cost me?

That appointment cost $95 USD. I think the exam was $30, so the antibiotic ointment was probably $65.

Nannub · Nov 17, 2015

PudgePig said:
That appointment cost $95 USD. I think the exam was $30, so the antibiotic ointment was probably $65.

Oh my, so expensive. But they're worth every penny. Fur babies

Nannub · Nov 18, 2015

Hay poke? She's pregnant....

PudgePig · Nov 18, 2015

That was unexpected...
Is her eye okay?

scoottie · Nov 18, 2015

You cant say she's pregnant because its not a great picture to go on. Unless you took her to a vet and they told you she was pregnant.

Nannub · Nov 18, 2015

Her eye is okay. Vet said cleaning it with saline solution was a good call. Also, I got her a month ago. I didn't know she was pregnant? I'm not a guinea pig expert so I'm sorry if it sounds dumb.
Here's the xray they took. There's two babies. Hoping for the best. Please don't buy guinea pigs. I made the mistake before joining the forum and reading about pet stores. Now I'm in a messy situation.

PudgePig · Nov 18, 2015

How old is she? and How far along does the vet think she is?

Nannub · Nov 18, 2015

PudgePig said:
How old is she? and How far along does the vet think she is?

I don't know for sure how old she is. But the vet said she seems to be really young. ~6mo and that she could have them in the next weeks. I'm freaking out.

PudgePig · Nov 18, 2015

From what I've seen on the forum, it's good that she's young. Less chance of complications. I'd be freaking out too.

Nannub · Nov 18, 2015

PudgePig said:
From what I've seen on the forum, it's good that she's young. Less chance of complications. I'd be freaking out too.

I know this is completely my fault because I bought her and didn't adopt. But I really need advice on this situation. I just hope nothing bad happens to her, she's bonded to my other guinea pig, Vi.

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