Skin Discoloration

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DtBC

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My beardie, Fauntine, started developing discoloration near the base of her tail about 8-9 days ago. At first, it just looked like pre-shed, so I made a vet appointment but not an emergency appointment. I took her to the vet on Wednesday (3 days ago).

He had no idea what it is, but gave us some oral medicine to try for two weeks.

I'm just a little nervous about the mystery of it, so I'm putting some pictures here to see if anyone has seen this before.
It started between her back legs in just a small patch and then spread up her sides and is now on her front legs as well.

The color made me think it is pre-shed, but the skin has a damp consistency to it, not a flakey one (even though I keep her dry) and the individual scales seem raised or swollen.

Some Faunt info for context:
She is 5.5 years old, eats and poops almost daily, gets baths once a week, has a 95-100 degree F basking area and sits about 10 inches away (at the closest point) from her UV and heat lamp.
She doesn't have loose substrate, her tank floor is linoleum.
She gets 1-2 baths a week - unless she seems constipated, then she gets extra to loosen things up.

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Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!
 

Gail

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Yep, just shed. I wouldn't give any medication, especially if there was no diagnoses.
 

DtBC

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So, there was no definitive diagnosis, but the vet seemed concerned and he prescribed 0.2 mL of Ketoconazole daily for 2 weeks. He said it's just a trial to see if we can't figure out how to treat this because he doesn't know what it is.
 

AHBD

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The vet gave you an antifungal because he doesn't know that this is just a patch of skin shed. I've owned + raised lots of dragons and that type of uneven shed is somewhat common. Don't give that powerful med. to your dragon, he is not sick and try to find another vet for future problems but this is not a problem.
 

DtBC

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AHBD":iru75n3r said:
The vet gave you an antifungal because he doesn't know that this is just a patch of skin shed. I've owned + raised lots of dragons and that type of uneven shed is somewhat common. Don't give that powerful med. to your dragon, he is not sick and try to find another vet for future problems but this is not a problem.

Okay, thank you very much for the clarification.
 
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