ewarwoowar
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My beardy had a blood test recently as he had permanent stress marks, black beard, low appetite and lethargy (usual sick beardy symptoms). The results came back with elevated uric acid levels at 1282 umol/L or 21mg/dL as well as slightly elevated calcium and total protein.
We’ve since had him put on allopurinol and he’s currently on a greens only diet for the course of the treatment. The cause of his uric acid was most likely a high protein diet as we tended to let him eat more bugs than salad as that's what he prefers. We've since corrected this and got him onto a more salad diet.
I know that uric acid leads to gout but to me he doesn’t look like he has any swelling or physical differences but I’m worried he’s in serious pain. He will be back at the vets for a follow up blood test at the end of the treatment in 2.5 weeks and I’m going to ask for an x ray to specifically check for gout but in the mean time, I wondered if anyone with experience of gout notices any swelling in his limbs? He’s my first and only BD so I have nothing to compare to other than online photos and it all looks okay. I'm probably going to book him in sooner for an x ray just to be certain.
Please ignore the toes on his left front foot. These were actually injuries from when he was a baby at the pet store with 15 other babies and he’s had those since we got him 9 years ago. His front legs are the ones I’m a bit wary of as they look chubby but at the same time they look exactly the same amount of chubby. He also has full movement in all his legs and walks on all four when chasing food down, I can provide a video of flexibility if it helps. Every photo of the front legs make them look different so I'll take more tomorrow of when he's basking and standing up.
Thank you in advance!
We’ve since had him put on allopurinol and he’s currently on a greens only diet for the course of the treatment. The cause of his uric acid was most likely a high protein diet as we tended to let him eat more bugs than salad as that's what he prefers. We've since corrected this and got him onto a more salad diet.
I know that uric acid leads to gout but to me he doesn’t look like he has any swelling or physical differences but I’m worried he’s in serious pain. He will be back at the vets for a follow up blood test at the end of the treatment in 2.5 weeks and I’m going to ask for an x ray to specifically check for gout but in the mean time, I wondered if anyone with experience of gout notices any swelling in his limbs? He’s my first and only BD so I have nothing to compare to other than online photos and it all looks okay. I'm probably going to book him in sooner for an x ray just to be certain.
Please ignore the toes on his left front foot. These were actually injuries from when he was a baby at the pet store with 15 other babies and he’s had those since we got him 9 years ago. His front legs are the ones I’m a bit wary of as they look chubby but at the same time they look exactly the same amount of chubby. He also has full movement in all his legs and walks on all four when chasing food down, I can provide a video of flexibility if it helps. Every photo of the front legs make them look different so I'll take more tomorrow of when he's basking and standing up.
Thank you in advance!