oasisandbambi
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Hey sorry I didn't know what to name this thread. One of my boys, who was castrated a long time ago, has two (?) Very little lumps on the side of his penis. He had an abscess there before so I was waiting it out thinking this may be another abscess but the little lumps never really grew in size. I showed them to my vet who told me that they were probably some skin or something related to his castration and nothing to worry about. Last week I found him with his penis stuck out, really red and the lumps seemed a bit swollen and seemed to be pushing his penis to the side. Cleaned it with warm water and was able to make it go in again using sugar water and started him on meloxicam. Second day it was stuck out again but not so swollen and I kept giving him the meloxicam. It's been a week or so now and the swelling has gone down and he's pp is never got stuck out again but I can still feel the lumps, even if they did swell down a little. His still on meloxicam, I'm not sure for how long should I keep administrating it. I feel like a week is already a long time ? But I am afraid to stop the antibiotic cuz I don't think the infection is cleared up yet. I want to take him to a vet but our city is in quarantine due to the virus, leaving the house is highly unadvisable. I don't want to be responsible for spreading anything to random people or my family who I am sharing a house with and I also don't want to catch anything because then I'm not sure who would be able to take care of my rats for a long period of time lol. The vet is two hours away and I have to catch the train. I don't know for how long the vet will stay open/ if it is still open, as many places are closing because of the virus. In case I can't take him in right now, I just wanted to ask for how long is it okay to administer meloxicam as it seems to be helping. And if there's anything else I can do from home or if it would be better to risk the vet trip. Thank you ! And sorry for any spelling mistakes or anything since english is not my first language