It's much better news than you expected. My gerbil did have a 5 day course of metacam (painkiller) but it was a tiny tiny amount which I had to administer by mouth. Her leg was broken but it healed by itself in a month.

If you feel your hamster needs more pain relief it's worth asking the vet to prescribe you some oral metacam but the dosage needs to be very carefully worked out and managed.

Wishing you all the very best for you and your hamster and fingers crossed that he can recover from this trauma and have a good few months of life with you to come.

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Oh and gunky eyes can happen as your hamster gets older.