TyrannosaurusWreck
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My beardie, Charlie, is fairly new to our house. We've had her for about 2 weeks, from a pet store, and she's 6 months old. She's an absolute sweetheart and warmed up to me fairly quickly, and I love her dearly.
The day before yesterday, I left to go to school as normal. She even jumped down from her basking rock to say good-bye to me before I left, and seemed very happy and content. I took a picture of her right before I left:
However, when I got home, she seemed off. When I gave her the crickets, she didn't chase them and only ate one, who happened to get close to her. She was laying down. I didn't think much of it because that's exactly what she did when I first got her, so I assumed she might've been spooked from something, or just wasn't hungry, and I decided to wait for her next feeding.
Fast forward 3-4 hours, and I notice Charlie is laying down again, with her front arms spread out behind her. Usually she's very eager to be handled and will crawl up my sleeve using her front legs, but this time she pushed herself up only with her back legs, and this is when I notice her front legs are completely limp. They would respond yo being touched and she would sometimes move them, but for the most part they were limp and she didn't put weight on them.
I was fearing this would be MBD, as I ruled out impaction (she's pooping/eating regularly), not caused by a lack of calcium but rather too much D3. It wasn't until this happened that I learned D3 overdose could be a possibility. I feed her crickets twice a day, and for the first feeding I dust the crickets with a calcium and D3 powder. I have since instead bought a calcium powder without D3 and a multivitamin powder.
She has a linear reptisun 10.0 UVB light, and aside from her legs has not shown any signs of illness.
Yesterday, my mom and I took her to the vet. We ended up waiting 5 hours and paying $230 just for the visit only to be told what I already suspected (without certainty, they didn't find out the cause), and they told us that to find anything further they would need to do an x-ray among some other things that could total to $2k+ in USD which we can't afford. So we found out nothing from the vet trip, but we were given syringes with a calcium supplement to give to Charlie orally.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be wrong and if she can recover fully? From the day before yesterday to yesterday she showed improvement and started using her front legs a little more.
Here's some additional information in case it helps:
-She has a basking rock and heat lamp which reaches 105 degrees F
-Her cool side is usually around 80 degrees
-She eats crickets and kale, and occasionally blueberries
-Her humidity is around 30-35%
-She has a hide under her basking rock and a fake plant
-She has a water bowl that she can swim in
please let me know if there's anything that can be done. Thank you.
The day before yesterday, I left to go to school as normal. She even jumped down from her basking rock to say good-bye to me before I left, and seemed very happy and content. I took a picture of her right before I left:
However, when I got home, she seemed off. When I gave her the crickets, she didn't chase them and only ate one, who happened to get close to her. She was laying down. I didn't think much of it because that's exactly what she did when I first got her, so I assumed she might've been spooked from something, or just wasn't hungry, and I decided to wait for her next feeding.
Fast forward 3-4 hours, and I notice Charlie is laying down again, with her front arms spread out behind her. Usually she's very eager to be handled and will crawl up my sleeve using her front legs, but this time she pushed herself up only with her back legs, and this is when I notice her front legs are completely limp. They would respond yo being touched and she would sometimes move them, but for the most part they were limp and she didn't put weight on them.
I was fearing this would be MBD, as I ruled out impaction (she's pooping/eating regularly), not caused by a lack of calcium but rather too much D3. It wasn't until this happened that I learned D3 overdose could be a possibility. I feed her crickets twice a day, and for the first feeding I dust the crickets with a calcium and D3 powder. I have since instead bought a calcium powder without D3 and a multivitamin powder.
She has a linear reptisun 10.0 UVB light, and aside from her legs has not shown any signs of illness.
Yesterday, my mom and I took her to the vet. We ended up waiting 5 hours and paying $230 just for the visit only to be told what I already suspected (without certainty, they didn't find out the cause), and they told us that to find anything further they would need to do an x-ray among some other things that could total to $2k+ in USD which we can't afford. So we found out nothing from the vet trip, but we were given syringes with a calcium supplement to give to Charlie orally.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be wrong and if she can recover fully? From the day before yesterday to yesterday she showed improvement and started using her front legs a little more.
Here's some additional information in case it helps:
-She has a basking rock and heat lamp which reaches 105 degrees F
-Her cool side is usually around 80 degrees
-She eats crickets and kale, and occasionally blueberries
-Her humidity is around 30-35%
-She has a hide under her basking rock and a fake plant
-She has a water bowl that she can swim in
please let me know if there's anything that can be done. Thank you.