Hi everyone!
My 3 year old male guinea pig has what the vet is pretty sure is an abscess on his bottom. It looks like a golf ball sized lump with a scab about a bit bigger than a quarter on it.
We've been to the vet twice, the first as a diagnosis and the second as a check-up. The first was on May 11th and the vet prescribed Baytril and Metacam I believe. It didn't really appear to be helping, but it didn't look to be getting any worse, so we continued with the medication and took him back to the vet on the 17th. At that appointment, the vet said that we should do surgery to remove it ASAP, so Abu is having the surgery tomorrow. He has been on the same meds since, but it has appeared to get a little bigger and a bit worse, but it doesn't seem to be bothering him much.
Has anyone had any experience with a similar issue? If they completely removed the abscess, is it likely to come back? I have read about them coming back frequently if it was just drained, but I can't find much on the total removal of them.
I was also wondering about having the testing done to ensure that it wasn't caused by anything more than an infection. Is this really necessary? The surgery is pretty expensive anyways.
Thank you for your input!
My 3 year old male guinea pig has what the vet is pretty sure is an abscess on his bottom. It looks like a golf ball sized lump with a scab about a bit bigger than a quarter on it.
We've been to the vet twice, the first as a diagnosis and the second as a check-up. The first was on May 11th and the vet prescribed Baytril and Metacam I believe. It didn't really appear to be helping, but it didn't look to be getting any worse, so we continued with the medication and took him back to the vet on the 17th. At that appointment, the vet said that we should do surgery to remove it ASAP, so Abu is having the surgery tomorrow. He has been on the same meds since, but it has appeared to get a little bigger and a bit worse, but it doesn't seem to be bothering him much.
Has anyone had any experience with a similar issue? If they completely removed the abscess, is it likely to come back? I have read about them coming back frequently if it was just drained, but I can't find much on the total removal of them.
I was also wondering about having the testing done to ensure that it wasn't caused by anything more than an infection. Is this really necessary? The surgery is pretty expensive anyways.
Thank you for your input!