Hello everyone,
I'm highly frustrated and just have to get this off my chest and need an opinion. My Dumbo rat Müsli(1,5) had his eye removed last Saturday after an infection caused it to bulge out of his head within 3 days. At that point vets already told me that it's probably a tumor and that they couldn't do anything. I took him back and demanded the surgery. He bounced back great from the procedure and was as lively as he used to be until this morning. When I went to give him pain medication he already seemed off.. in the course of the day he got even worse to the point where he had no strength anymore and refused any kind of food. I took him to the vet. Neurologically it all seemed fine, they gave him an infusion and sent me back home. So now I have been feeding him and we've been giving him infusions ourselves every 4h.. but it doesn't seem to be doing much. For a moment he seemed to be better and even wanted to eat but shortly after he returned to his idle state. He breathes normally.. I'm not sure what to do anymore or what's wrong with him. Perhaps his kidneys just couldn't handle the medications? It's very frustrating that he went from recovering nicely to incredibly ill in just about 10 hours.
I'm highly frustrated and just have to get this off my chest and need an opinion. My Dumbo rat Müsli(1,5) had his eye removed last Saturday after an infection caused it to bulge out of his head within 3 days. At that point vets already told me that it's probably a tumor and that they couldn't do anything. I took him back and demanded the surgery. He bounced back great from the procedure and was as lively as he used to be until this morning. When I went to give him pain medication he already seemed off.. in the course of the day he got even worse to the point where he had no strength anymore and refused any kind of food. I took him to the vet. Neurologically it all seemed fine, they gave him an infusion and sent me back home. So now I have been feeding him and we've been giving him infusions ourselves every 4h.. but it doesn't seem to be doing much. For a moment he seemed to be better and even wanted to eat but shortly after he returned to his idle state. He breathes normally.. I'm not sure what to do anymore or what's wrong with him. Perhaps his kidneys just couldn't handle the medications? It's very frustrating that he went from recovering nicely to incredibly ill in just about 10 hours.