Ohk....good news...the abscess is not big enough to do any damage, as long as its not alloewd to grow he will be fine, so hes on antibiotics the vet said he prob wont have to get it drained cuz the antis will take care of it....now the bad news...if it does need to be drained my vet wont do it because hes really small and the abscess is in a position that if he were to make the incision a little too big he coud die... prey it dosnt have to be drained and that the antibiotics do the job!!!

Good Luck with him and make sure you keep us posted.

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MARSHA

:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

I hope everything works out ok for him! Good luck!

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~Juliane~

thankya!! i hope so too...poor little guy

Hello,

Good luck. Couldn't they just extract the fluids with a syringe instead of lancing it?

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Im not sure rich....have any of your herps had that done before? ive had 3 abscesses and 2 had to be lanced one went away with antibiotics.,...and I just realized that the same day but a week earlier that I found shocks I had a monster abscess drained..weird, lol

Good luck! Please update us as days go by!

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Good luck! At our clinic we almost always lance abcesses, most of them have thick pus in them that would be hard to get out with a smaller gauge needle, you'd need like a 10 gauge needle do get some of them cleaned out well.
Keep us posted!

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