Can you email that pic to the vet?

It doesn’t appear to have actually opened. I think what you’re seeing is some infection. You could use some chlorhexidine solution to clean it in the meantime. Regular Neosporin (no painkiller kind) is safe to use, but I don’t know how deep the wound is. You’re not supposed to use it in deep wounds. I like JR’s idea of emailing the pic to the vet. They could tell you if it would be safe to do that or not.

Keeping any wound clean is too priority, sometimes that means leaving them alone. that is what I would advise here. Immune systems are fantastic at fighting infections, and the risk of using at home medication not made for rabbits seems too great. I would say leave it for the day. You’re seeing a vet tomorrow, and any progress you make might only be topical and could hide the infection from the vet and then they prescribe less strong medication, and then a snowball effect. In the meantime you can make sure she doesn’t get the incision excessively dirty ie: change her litter, make sure she’s not incessantly licking at it, normal things in the after care of any surgery. Good luck to you and your bun!!!

Well, glad it’s healing up. Sometimes they just need to heal from the inside out, which is what LBJ was striving for. But hopefully her system will continue to do the work. Can’t understand a word of that neutral therapy, though LBJ probably can! Hope she continues to heal!!

Megabunny – The autonomic nervous system is the stuff controlled by the hypothalamus. In other words, this is the part of the nervous system that controls involuntary functions (think internal organs, etc).

Anyway, neural therapy is an alternative medicine technique. It involves injecting local anesthetics directing into the source of the pain. In this case, it is the incision site. They might also do the injection directly into the nerves since nerve pain can actually do some pretty strange things like cause other “seemingly unrelated” parts to hurt as well. This isn’t a common practice in the US, but I think in it’s more common in other parts of the world.

Well why didn’t they just say so? YOUR explanation makes sense! I’ve never heard of that. Odd but interesting.

And here I thought I wasn’t making sense. LOL I guess when I think about it, I think of pain manifesting in areas other than the true source because everything is connected through nerves. It reminds me of my car accident. I actually had a neck injury, but I had pain traveling down my arm and even all the way to my wrist.

Yay! Great that it has healed!