Hello, so this a long shot but I am going to give it a shot. My fiance and I took in a bearded dragon back in 2018, he was very healthy, he gets the correct temperatures, and lighting, we made sure we educated ourselves when it came to housing them. His meals consist of superworms; as a staple; wax worms, butter worms, horn worms; on occasion. For veggies he eats carrots, kale, bok choy, turnip greens, and fruits on occasion, blue berries, and apple.
Since December of last year, we noticed he started acting a little different; lethargic, not as interested in food, dehydrated, just not himself. So we took him to the vet and they gave us medicine for pinworms, that wasn't the issue. Then after that we went again and they give us meds for parasites, that did not work either.
Within the last month or so we noticed his tail was getting dark and dried up, dead looking. So immediately we said "OK tail rot." So we started putting his tail in betadine everyday for 5 minutes then a bit of polysporn until we could get into the vet, when we took him in they said he had KIDNEY FAILURE. So proceeded with two different meds for that. They just seamed to make things kind of worse. He was even more lethargic, no appetite, super dehyrdated, and he actually threw up two days ago in the morning before we even gave him his meds. So we took him off the meds and called the vet right away. He said there's nothing else we can really do for him; he said his kidneys are failing and it's only a matter of time.
BUT, since we took him off his meds, he seams a bit better and his tail just looks like its going further up his tail. It really looks like he has tail rot, but the vets aren't diagnosing him or listening to us when we say we really think its tail rot and we should get it amputated. Its just spreading further the longer his tail is on.
I will also note, hes I think ceased out on us at least 4 times, goes unresponsive for like 5 minutes, to the point where we think we lost him. But a we splash him with water, give him some cooler air, and he comes back. Also, within the span of these months he has been off and on eating worms, but NO veggies. Its rare that he eats worms to, usually we have to syringe feed him grub pie, water and veggies mashed, and baby food. Meds don't help him either, they just make him stop eating again; if he's started eating worms for us again that is. We dont know what else to do other than keep soaking his tail, keep him fed, hydrated, and comfortable. PLEASE HELP!!!! We don't think its kidney failure and want to help him of we can.
Stories, expirences, remedies, ANYTHING! Thanks very much!
(I'll post pictures when I found out how)
Since December of last year, we noticed he started acting a little different; lethargic, not as interested in food, dehydrated, just not himself. So we took him to the vet and they gave us medicine for pinworms, that wasn't the issue. Then after that we went again and they give us meds for parasites, that did not work either.
Within the last month or so we noticed his tail was getting dark and dried up, dead looking. So immediately we said "OK tail rot." So we started putting his tail in betadine everyday for 5 minutes then a bit of polysporn until we could get into the vet, when we took him in they said he had KIDNEY FAILURE. So proceeded with two different meds for that. They just seamed to make things kind of worse. He was even more lethargic, no appetite, super dehyrdated, and he actually threw up two days ago in the morning before we even gave him his meds. So we took him off the meds and called the vet right away. He said there's nothing else we can really do for him; he said his kidneys are failing and it's only a matter of time.
BUT, since we took him off his meds, he seams a bit better and his tail just looks like its going further up his tail. It really looks like he has tail rot, but the vets aren't diagnosing him or listening to us when we say we really think its tail rot and we should get it amputated. Its just spreading further the longer his tail is on.
I will also note, hes I think ceased out on us at least 4 times, goes unresponsive for like 5 minutes, to the point where we think we lost him. But a we splash him with water, give him some cooler air, and he comes back. Also, within the span of these months he has been off and on eating worms, but NO veggies. Its rare that he eats worms to, usually we have to syringe feed him grub pie, water and veggies mashed, and baby food. Meds don't help him either, they just make him stop eating again; if he's started eating worms for us again that is. We dont know what else to do other than keep soaking his tail, keep him fed, hydrated, and comfortable. PLEASE HELP!!!! We don't think its kidney failure and want to help him of we can.
Stories, expirences, remedies, ANYTHING! Thanks very much!
(I'll post pictures when I found out how)
