My beardie is 3 years old and has always been so healthy until recently.
He was treated for a small amount of a parasite (can't remember what it was called) and cleared last month.
I explained to the vet back then that he wasn't wanting to bask and sleeping alot and he said it's probably from the parasite and meds.
I thought maybe he is just wanting to go into brumation but wanted to keep him up for a while longer to make sure he was healthy, then a couple weeks ago he started twitching in random spots on his body.
I learned that it was probably due to low calcium so I began taking him outside and giving him more calcium and the twitching stopped and he started getting a dark orange color in his urate, then they started getting really mushy and nasty with almost no urate, then started having alot of brown liquid surrounding his poop, now his poop looks fine but it looks like there's blood in the urate. It's like one thing after another.
He never wants to get up, bask or eat his salad anymore (and he LOVESSSSS his salads, he would even eat 2 a day sometimes!)
And then there will be one or two days of the week that he seems like he is doing better, basking and running around, and then back to being lazy. He still ALWAYS jumps up real quick for any bugs, and will take some bites of his salad especially if i hand feed him.
I have done SO much research to try to do everything right and this is stressing me out so bad right now.
I would like to upload some pics but not sure how yet.
***also he does have an apt. For Thursday at the vet, just looking for any opinions or help, it's hard to find an exotic vet around here and was not very happy with the last place I took him to so I had to find someone else.
He was treated for a small amount of a parasite (can't remember what it was called) and cleared last month.
I explained to the vet back then that he wasn't wanting to bask and sleeping alot and he said it's probably from the parasite and meds.
I thought maybe he is just wanting to go into brumation but wanted to keep him up for a while longer to make sure he was healthy, then a couple weeks ago he started twitching in random spots on his body.
I learned that it was probably due to low calcium so I began taking him outside and giving him more calcium and the twitching stopped and he started getting a dark orange color in his urate, then they started getting really mushy and nasty with almost no urate, then started having alot of brown liquid surrounding his poop, now his poop looks fine but it looks like there's blood in the urate. It's like one thing after another.
He never wants to get up, bask or eat his salad anymore (and he LOVESSSSS his salads, he would even eat 2 a day sometimes!)
And then there will be one or two days of the week that he seems like he is doing better, basking and running around, and then back to being lazy. He still ALWAYS jumps up real quick for any bugs, and will take some bites of his salad especially if i hand feed him.
I have done SO much research to try to do everything right and this is stressing me out so bad right now.
I would like to upload some pics but not sure how yet.
***also he does have an apt. For Thursday at the vet, just looking for any opinions or help, it's hard to find an exotic vet around here and was not very happy with the last place I took him to so I had to find someone else.