Have you gotten a diagnosis of ileus from a vet? From your post it seems as if it is difficult to find a rabbit savvy vet and sometimes you have to educate the vets yourself. Here is a good link to information that you can print out and show your vet:
www.medirabbit.com
regarding ileus here is a terrific article and there is a link there for a version to show your vet:
http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Dana/ileus.htm
It sounds like he might have gas and there is advice on treating gas in the above article. Again, a vet is the best choice for giving you advice on pain medicine and the link to medirabbit should help.
It sounds as if you are taking good care of your bunny, alhtough a few suggestions. You don't need to clean his litterbox all the time once a day or even every other day is ok. We line the litterboxes with newspaper and top with hay and that gets ours in to use the box and eat the hay. Some bunnies don't seem to like hay or he could have a tooth problem...probably not since he eats his pellets. We have luck getting ours to eat hay by providing a choice...they like timothy, broome, oat blend, and orchard grass. There are plenty of places in the states that ship hay, but not sure how economical that would be for you. All of our bunnies LOVE the hay from www.bunnyluv.com so you might try a shipment to see if that gets his appetite for hay going.
You also want to be sure that you aren't giving him too many pellets. If he is over 1 yr you should be limiting the pellets so he doesn't get overweight and to encourage him to eat the hay.Here is a good link to suggestions about diet:
www.carrotcafe.com
Good luck with your bunny
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