WarpedHowl
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Hello, I have a 7 month old bearded dragon and for the past couple weeks I noticed he was bending his feet back when relaxing, I thought it was early signs of MBD because he walks fine, runs fine and doesn't everything else fine, so I figured bring him to the bet to be sure and get it solved right away.... well, long story short, she ruled that out and thought maybe it was adenovirus. But he's on his own and has no way, so she brought him to thales back and performed an xray and turns out his bones haven't been absorbing the calcium at all. I give him rep-cal calcium with vitamin D3 teice a week and a vitamin and calcium no D3 supplement everyday. He acts fine, but in the cray, his joints are literally gone (I'll post pic) and his light which is a TH 50 10.0 is only kept 10inches away from him. The vet said it could be due to genetics and over breeding, and he only has about a 5% chance of living for a while and I grew attached to him... does any body have solutions to help him get through this? I don't wanna lose him. But if it gets bad enough he can't take care of himself, I don't want him to suffer and would euthanize him. But he can still walk fine, just his arms go more to the side and the only thing keeping his bones where his joints would be are his muscles. The vet gave me some injections to see if maybe his bones that are still there will absorb the calcium better, but his joints won't be able to come back now...