Ecossebear
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Hi, I am hoping for anyone who may have had the same symptoms as my beardie. He is 6 or 7 year old and was always in very good health. Around 5 weeks ago he started to go off his food, and developed a really bad head tremor. I took him to a vet who carried out a number of tests, checking first if he had a calcium deficiency. His calcium levels came back healthy but white blood cells were very low and he had a bacterial infection. He was treated with various different antibiotics over the last 5 weeks and has shown small signs of improvement (starting eating again for a few days) before getting worse again. A second lot of tests were done which showed his infection had cleared up but the white blood cells were still very very low, and the head tremor still bad. He has had a few scans which have not shown up anything abnormal and we have run out of tests to do that are not invasive and I wouldn’t put the wee boy through that. I have completely changed out all his bulbs etc but his viv conditions are perfect (I’m a bit OCD with my pets!).
The vet has been excellent and is an exotic pet specialist, but he, like I, is at a loss over what this could be. He is now on Gavapenton for neurological problems, antibiotics and an antiinfamitary. I am feeding him critical care daily through a syringe. I am at my wits end as I hate having to force him the food and medicines each day and I’m worrying he is suffering and I should maybe think about making that awful decision, but because we dont know what is wrong I don’t want to give up hope we may be able to get him better! If anyone has had anything similar I would be really grateful to hear. Thanks in advance
The vet has been excellent and is an exotic pet specialist, but he, like I, is at a loss over what this could be. He is now on Gavapenton for neurological problems, antibiotics and an antiinfamitary. I am feeding him critical care daily through a syringe. I am at my wits end as I hate having to force him the food and medicines each day and I’m worrying he is suffering and I should maybe think about making that awful decision, but because we dont know what is wrong I don’t want to give up hope we may be able to get him better! If anyone has had anything similar I would be really grateful to hear. Thanks in advance