So things are not quite so clear any more. We had an echocardiogram done on her, and they said that her heart was working like a normal heart. So if it was "mild heart disease," it is gone now? They advised to continue giving the diuretic and eventually take her off of it, since it seemed to be making her feel all better. However now she is back to wheezing, even though we have stayed on the same med. that had seemed to stop the wheezing before and made her more active. Now she has been sitting in a sort of tensed position most of the time, with her fur ruffled up, wheezing.
My other guinea pig Mimi is also exhibiting some weird symptoms(?) She has watery eyes, however this is a problem she has had on and off since she was a baby, I frequently need to keep her eyes clean from watering just because of the way her fur type is I believe. However she has started smacking her mouth/licking her tongue around and making a mouth smacking noise pretty often, which she never used to do before. She also makes a bit of a rough breathing or grunting sound when she folds in half to clean herself. I could just be being very paranoid on this stuff with Mimi, but they are a combination of odd things which are unusual for her. And since Lulu has an apparently mysterious illness, I'm just not sure what could be going on now.
Thanks for any opinions/ideas.
My other guinea pig Mimi is also exhibiting some weird symptoms(?) She has watery eyes, however this is a problem she has had on and off since she was a baby, I frequently need to keep her eyes clean from watering just because of the way her fur type is I believe. However she has started smacking her mouth/licking her tongue around and making a mouth smacking noise pretty often, which she never used to do before. She also makes a bit of a rough breathing or grunting sound when she folds in half to clean herself. I could just be being very paranoid on this stuff with Mimi, but they are a combination of odd things which are unusual for her. And since Lulu has an apparently mysterious illness, I'm just not sure what could be going on now.
Thanks for any opinions/ideas.