My original topic when he first started feeling ill:
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Setup and pictures are in there, if you'd like to check. Light has been replaced with a Reptisun 10.0 T5HO. Every sign points to this NOT being a husbandry issue. He's just over a year and a half, and has had T5HO lighting and proper temps his whole life, no sand or anything else as such.
He started off straining when pooping, which went away after a couple weeks, but then instead he became lethargic and stopped eating. The vet said she felt an impaction and that his clavicle seemed lower than normal. Other than that he seemed fine, so she ran a fecal which came back negative. After a little he seemed to improve, and then seemed much better over three days.
On day four he couldn't seem to use his front arms and his stomach seemed very soft and bloated, I set an appointment for the following morning with a different vet at that clinic. On the fifth day, the morning he saw the vet, he was able to use his arms again. He seemed fine in with the vet, but later once I brought him home he went softer again and now doesn't seem able to really move himself much at all. The vet didn't have him in any kind of specialized hold while he was there, he was inside my backpack on a heating pad.
The vet said that the x-rays showed that the softness and bloatedness in his stomach was from air; He gave two options. One is that it's hopefully a bacterial infection and that anti-biotics should fix it (Apparently there are bacteria that produce air and this isn't that uncommon in beardies, he said), or two being that he might've been hurt prior to me getting him and his lungs could have grown lower and extended too low. He doesn't seem to have any issues breathing, so given these two extremes of his recommendations we're obviously hoping it's the first.
I was hoping that today he'd have improved, as he has been very up and down in extremes, but he's still unable to move his body very well and still can't really use his arms.
Couple questions:
I've never had to give anti-biotics before; How long until I should see an improvement? Is there anything I should be doing to help him through taking it?
Anyone hear of any situations like this? The vet seems like they're very much out of their depth, but this is the best place that is available without airfare.
viewtopic.php?f=45&t=249165
Setup and pictures are in there, if you'd like to check. Light has been replaced with a Reptisun 10.0 T5HO. Every sign points to this NOT being a husbandry issue. He's just over a year and a half, and has had T5HO lighting and proper temps his whole life, no sand or anything else as such.
He started off straining when pooping, which went away after a couple weeks, but then instead he became lethargic and stopped eating. The vet said she felt an impaction and that his clavicle seemed lower than normal. Other than that he seemed fine, so she ran a fecal which came back negative. After a little he seemed to improve, and then seemed much better over three days.
On day four he couldn't seem to use his front arms and his stomach seemed very soft and bloated, I set an appointment for the following morning with a different vet at that clinic. On the fifth day, the morning he saw the vet, he was able to use his arms again. He seemed fine in with the vet, but later once I brought him home he went softer again and now doesn't seem able to really move himself much at all. The vet didn't have him in any kind of specialized hold while he was there, he was inside my backpack on a heating pad.
The vet said that the x-rays showed that the softness and bloatedness in his stomach was from air; He gave two options. One is that it's hopefully a bacterial infection and that anti-biotics should fix it (Apparently there are bacteria that produce air and this isn't that uncommon in beardies, he said), or two being that he might've been hurt prior to me getting him and his lungs could have grown lower and extended too low. He doesn't seem to have any issues breathing, so given these two extremes of his recommendations we're obviously hoping it's the first.
I was hoping that today he'd have improved, as he has been very up and down in extremes, but he's still unable to move his body very well and still can't really use his arms.
Couple questions:
I've never had to give anti-biotics before; How long until I should see an improvement? Is there anything I should be doing to help him through taking it?
Anyone hear of any situations like this? The vet seems like they're very much out of their depth, but this is the best place that is available without airfare.