Loongtomorrow
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Last night I came home to her acting a bit off.. She had muscle twitching in her stomach and was getting rather annoyed with me.. (beard turning black and jerking at me)
Soon after I noticed her dragging her legs.. She was doing an army crawl..
I asked my bf if he noticed anything and he told me he fed her Turkish roaches and soon after started acting off..
Mind you the day before she was very happy running around chasing her food..
The vet ruled out MBD as she is a very healthy dragon and her bone density was fine.. I asked about impaction and he stated that he doubted that was the problem..
He told me that he believes she has some type of spinal trauma due to an odd spacing he found from x-rays.. Which is leaving me stumped because I handle her with care and there's nothing in her cage that she could jump/fall from.. When telling him this, he was also very puzzled and said he honestly didn't know what could cause this sudden paralysis in her back legs.. He said the twitching was a pain response..
He gave her an anti-inflammatory shot to hopefully ease her pain and sent me home with meds as well as liquid calcium as to cover bases.. He also stated that if no improvement was seen in the next 48 hours that I would have to consider putting her down..has anyone experience something similar? Can she still live a happy life? I love this dragon more than anything and got her after I experienced a traumatic event myself.. I really don't want to loose her..
Soon after I noticed her dragging her legs.. She was doing an army crawl..
I asked my bf if he noticed anything and he told me he fed her Turkish roaches and soon after started acting off..
Mind you the day before she was very happy running around chasing her food..
The vet ruled out MBD as she is a very healthy dragon and her bone density was fine.. I asked about impaction and he stated that he doubted that was the problem..
He told me that he believes she has some type of spinal trauma due to an odd spacing he found from x-rays.. Which is leaving me stumped because I handle her with care and there's nothing in her cage that she could jump/fall from.. When telling him this, he was also very puzzled and said he honestly didn't know what could cause this sudden paralysis in her back legs.. He said the twitching was a pain response..
He gave her an anti-inflammatory shot to hopefully ease her pain and sent me home with meds as well as liquid calcium as to cover bases.. He also stated that if no improvement was seen in the next 48 hours that I would have to consider putting her down..has anyone experience something similar? Can she still live a happy life? I love this dragon more than anything and got her after I experienced a traumatic event myself.. I really don't want to loose her..