beaniethebeardie
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One of my beardies was fine yesterday and this morning, but this afternoon when I went in, her beard was black, her mouth was hanging open and her eyes were very sunken. There was fresh poop in her tank, with yellow urate.
We tried to coax her to drink but we noticed she was paralysed- she felt almost like a rubber lizard when we were moving her around. We rushed her to the vets and I was squeezing her chest gently and blowing into her mouth to help her breathe. Every now and again she’d open her mouth a few times and lick her lips but then fall back into the same thing. I checked her mouth and she wasn’t choking on anything, but her tongue was very pale. Her pupils were almost white and her eyes were half shut.
The vet asked if she’d eaten anything she shouldn’t have, or if she’d been doing anything differently recently, but she hasn’t. Because of corona, my mum had to take her in instead of me (she’s my mum’s dragon), and she was a bit upset when she came out so she didn’t explain everything clearly, but she basically said the vet has put Mazikeen on a drip because she’s very weak, and they thinks she’s got eggs.
My other beardie laid eggs a few months ago and had to get a painkiller from the vet because she wasn’t herself for a while afterwards. But Mazikeen hasn’t shown any signs of needing to lay recently- she doesn’t dig around in her tank, she was eating perfectly fine, she was due a bath today for her to have a drink. Her stomach did feel very bloated when I held her.
Just a side note: we’ve had the both of them for a year to two years now and neither one of them has ever brumated.
Can someone explain what the vet means? Has she held onto her eggs or retained them somehow? I literally don’t understand how she was running around her tank last night and was fine when my mum stroked her this morning, then suddenly she goes massively downhill. Will she get better?
We tried to coax her to drink but we noticed she was paralysed- she felt almost like a rubber lizard when we were moving her around. We rushed her to the vets and I was squeezing her chest gently and blowing into her mouth to help her breathe. Every now and again she’d open her mouth a few times and lick her lips but then fall back into the same thing. I checked her mouth and she wasn’t choking on anything, but her tongue was very pale. Her pupils were almost white and her eyes were half shut.
The vet asked if she’d eaten anything she shouldn’t have, or if she’d been doing anything differently recently, but she hasn’t. Because of corona, my mum had to take her in instead of me (she’s my mum’s dragon), and she was a bit upset when she came out so she didn’t explain everything clearly, but she basically said the vet has put Mazikeen on a drip because she’s very weak, and they thinks she’s got eggs.
My other beardie laid eggs a few months ago and had to get a painkiller from the vet because she wasn’t herself for a while afterwards. But Mazikeen hasn’t shown any signs of needing to lay recently- she doesn’t dig around in her tank, she was eating perfectly fine, she was due a bath today for her to have a drink. Her stomach did feel very bloated when I held her.
Just a side note: we’ve had the both of them for a year to two years now and neither one of them has ever brumated.
Can someone explain what the vet means? Has she held onto her eggs or retained them somehow? I literally don’t understand how she was running around her tank last night and was fine when my mum stroked her this morning, then suddenly she goes massively downhill. Will she get better?