Hey All--
This morning I was fussing over Beans and Pi as usual and noticed something unusual with our chunky boy Pi. Pi was cleaning his weenie without any issues and from what I could see, he was able to retract it fully while cleaning it...the only issue is that when he finished, I noticed w/ my eagle eyes that he had a bit of pink poking out. I scooped him up and examined him closer and I could clearly see that the very tip of his penis was poking out past his furry sheath when it should be tucked in behind it. I thought maybe it was still a little stimulated by him cleaning himself and that is what was keeping the tip from fully retracting back behind the shealth but 20 minutes later the tip was still poking out.
I scooped him up again and rechecked him. It looked like the foreskin that should retract over the entire penis when it is pulled back into the furry sheath isn't rolling forward over the penis, if that makes sense. I've never dealt with this before and I've never notice it happen with Pi before this, so I used my judgement and had my husband help me apply a gob of KY jelly to Pi's penis tip that was poking out to see if that would help get it to retract back in. It didn't help much and the very tip of his weenier was still poking out...I think since we applied the KY to the tip instead of fully retracting the penis, that this may be why it didn't help much. FYI I also have him a dose of metacam about an hour and a half ago to help with any swelling and/or pain. Pi didn't squeak or flinch when examining his penis, just typical squirminess.
So, poor Pi got scooped out again and I retracted as much of his penis out as I could (I didn't want to aggravate it even more, so I was very conservative of how much I coaxed out but it was a good amount that was pushed out) and we saturated the entire penis with KY and let it draw back on it's own.
Doing it this way worked a lot better and Pi's penis was able to draw back further into the correct position BUT the very tippy tip of his penis still wanted to poke out. It seemed like the furry sheath was a little rolled to where it looks bunched up (kind of like an o-ring) with the very tippy tip of his penis just poking out slightly, which was an improvement because before the KY application, more of the tip of his penis was poking out but it worries me because the very tip is still poking out.
I plan to check him again in an hour and see if his penis has fully retracted like it should. If it is still poking out, I plan to retract it and lubricate it with a good amount of KY to keep it hydrated and hopefully get it to fully retract into the shealth.
Does anyone have any other guidance in treating paraphimosis? So far it has only been the tip of the penis poking out slightly. Pi is a little chubby but he has always been good about grooming his man parts and I have never noticed this happening before. Of course if it doesn't resolve after trying the KY again, we definitely plan to take him to see a veterinarian at the Emergency vet (it's Sunday here and his exotics vet office is closed and Monday is a holiday so they're closed then as well). Unfortunately the ER vet hospital may or may not have one of their exotics veterinarians on staff today but hopefully we can manage this at home and it resolves without the stress of an ER vet visit. I'm not sure what they would do aside from what we have been doing already but at least they can maybe try to work it back in manually under anesthesia if it comes down to that.
Please share experiences and advice! I'll update in a hour or so and hopefully his penis will be back to normal! Thanks in advance!
This morning I was fussing over Beans and Pi as usual and noticed something unusual with our chunky boy Pi. Pi was cleaning his weenie without any issues and from what I could see, he was able to retract it fully while cleaning it...the only issue is that when he finished, I noticed w/ my eagle eyes that he had a bit of pink poking out. I scooped him up and examined him closer and I could clearly see that the very tip of his penis was poking out past his furry sheath when it should be tucked in behind it. I thought maybe it was still a little stimulated by him cleaning himself and that is what was keeping the tip from fully retracting back behind the shealth but 20 minutes later the tip was still poking out.
I scooped him up again and rechecked him. It looked like the foreskin that should retract over the entire penis when it is pulled back into the furry sheath isn't rolling forward over the penis, if that makes sense. I've never dealt with this before and I've never notice it happen with Pi before this, so I used my judgement and had my husband help me apply a gob of KY jelly to Pi's penis tip that was poking out to see if that would help get it to retract back in. It didn't help much and the very tip of his weenier was still poking out...I think since we applied the KY to the tip instead of fully retracting the penis, that this may be why it didn't help much. FYI I also have him a dose of metacam about an hour and a half ago to help with any swelling and/or pain. Pi didn't squeak or flinch when examining his penis, just typical squirminess.
So, poor Pi got scooped out again and I retracted as much of his penis out as I could (I didn't want to aggravate it even more, so I was very conservative of how much I coaxed out but it was a good amount that was pushed out) and we saturated the entire penis with KY and let it draw back on it's own.
Doing it this way worked a lot better and Pi's penis was able to draw back further into the correct position BUT the very tippy tip of his penis still wanted to poke out. It seemed like the furry sheath was a little rolled to where it looks bunched up (kind of like an o-ring) with the very tippy tip of his penis just poking out slightly, which was an improvement because before the KY application, more of the tip of his penis was poking out but it worries me because the very tip is still poking out.
I plan to check him again in an hour and see if his penis has fully retracted like it should. If it is still poking out, I plan to retract it and lubricate it with a good amount of KY to keep it hydrated and hopefully get it to fully retract into the shealth.
Does anyone have any other guidance in treating paraphimosis? So far it has only been the tip of the penis poking out slightly. Pi is a little chubby but he has always been good about grooming his man parts and I have never noticed this happening before. Of course if it doesn't resolve after trying the KY again, we definitely plan to take him to see a veterinarian at the Emergency vet (it's Sunday here and his exotics vet office is closed and Monday is a holiday so they're closed then as well). Unfortunately the ER vet hospital may or may not have one of their exotics veterinarians on staff today but hopefully we can manage this at home and it resolves without the stress of an ER vet visit. I'm not sure what they would do aside from what we have been doing already but at least they can maybe try to work it back in manually under anesthesia if it comes down to that.
Please share experiences and advice! I'll update in a hour or so and hopefully his penis will be back to normal! Thanks in advance!