Looking for some advice again. I’ll give a full run down on what’s going on and see what anyone else thinks. sorry for the long read
My beardie had surgery in June for follicle build up and had an infection in it and it sapped the calcium to where she could barely walk. After surgery she was on liquid calcium provided from the vet for 14 days and a few days before the surgery they started her on antibiotic shots every 3 days for 30 days. She got better after that.
About a month or so after getting better she started having the calcium issues again so I called the vet and she put her on 10 days more of the calcium. Re checked her that week and said her calcium is definitely the issue just from looking at her but did some blood work to send away. It came back she had an infection and it may have been the previous one she had since she was never rechecked for it. Anyways we just finished a total of a months worth of calcium and another month of shots for the infection. They told me after the calcium was finished to switch to Rapashy calcium plus every other day. Since she’s stubborn and won’t eat veggies unless I trick her to get a bite here and there or grind it up with water and some fruit and give her the water mixture from a dropper she wont really touch them lately. I was told to offer her the calcium with roaches. I was giving her 3-5 every other day covered in the rapashy plus and gut loading them with the flunkers roach gut loading supplement. Also keep her in her uvb light for 8-10 hours a day.
The other day her back leg seemed a little weak again so I got her back in. They did some blood work in clinic and said the calcium is where they want it at and she is perked up more that they believe the infection is gone by how much more aware she is. They said they straightened her leg a little and she pulled back and they bothered her until she walked some and she seems fine so they aren’t sure why she’s acting weak in the leg. They said she’s just pulling my leg they think but to keep an eye on it.
They said with her just finishing her antibiotic shots they feel it’s to early to test her for the infection but to come back in 2-3 months and they will send out a full panel to test everything they can’t in clinic to check everything from calcium to infection and anything else they can see. In the mean time they want me to give her a calcium without d3 3-4x a week and the repashy plus 1-2 times a week. They said use one of those repashy on her salad and if she doesn’t eat it then it’s not that big a deal with the rest of the calcium she gets. She normally will eat her roaches with no problem but when I added her new powder to the ones yesterday (they were covered) she only ate one and act like she didn’t want more but she ate a few hornworms right after.
I should mention it’s cold out here around 50 degrees Fahrenheit lately so I know she’s in that brumation cycle and her appetite is down but she will only eat a few pieces of fruit when I hand feed her or her bugs it seems like. With her acting like she’s weak in legs I’m worried we may be giving to much calcium or uvb after I read it can have the same sympthoms as not enough.
I had to change her uvb from being inside the cage to on top recently because she kept acting like she
Would try to crawl out of it no matter where it was mounted. I bought a reptisun T5 HO with a 10.0 bulb to replace it and lay on top. Last few days she wanted to lay directly under it at her highest point in the cage. Today she’s is off to the side some where she doesn’t seem to want in it. Her hotspot is around 100 and where she laying it’s about 90.
I do have a solar meeter also. I’ll add some pics around where she stays to give an idea what the ranges are.
Thank you
My beardie had surgery in June for follicle build up and had an infection in it and it sapped the calcium to where she could barely walk. After surgery she was on liquid calcium provided from the vet for 14 days and a few days before the surgery they started her on antibiotic shots every 3 days for 30 days. She got better after that.
About a month or so after getting better she started having the calcium issues again so I called the vet and she put her on 10 days more of the calcium. Re checked her that week and said her calcium is definitely the issue just from looking at her but did some blood work to send away. It came back she had an infection and it may have been the previous one she had since she was never rechecked for it. Anyways we just finished a total of a months worth of calcium and another month of shots for the infection. They told me after the calcium was finished to switch to Rapashy calcium plus every other day. Since she’s stubborn and won’t eat veggies unless I trick her to get a bite here and there or grind it up with water and some fruit and give her the water mixture from a dropper she wont really touch them lately. I was told to offer her the calcium with roaches. I was giving her 3-5 every other day covered in the rapashy plus and gut loading them with the flunkers roach gut loading supplement. Also keep her in her uvb light for 8-10 hours a day.
The other day her back leg seemed a little weak again so I got her back in. They did some blood work in clinic and said the calcium is where they want it at and she is perked up more that they believe the infection is gone by how much more aware she is. They said they straightened her leg a little and she pulled back and they bothered her until she walked some and she seems fine so they aren’t sure why she’s acting weak in the leg. They said she’s just pulling my leg they think but to keep an eye on it.
They said with her just finishing her antibiotic shots they feel it’s to early to test her for the infection but to come back in 2-3 months and they will send out a full panel to test everything they can’t in clinic to check everything from calcium to infection and anything else they can see. In the mean time they want me to give her a calcium without d3 3-4x a week and the repashy plus 1-2 times a week. They said use one of those repashy on her salad and if she doesn’t eat it then it’s not that big a deal with the rest of the calcium she gets. She normally will eat her roaches with no problem but when I added her new powder to the ones yesterday (they were covered) she only ate one and act like she didn’t want more but she ate a few hornworms right after.
I should mention it’s cold out here around 50 degrees Fahrenheit lately so I know she’s in that brumation cycle and her appetite is down but she will only eat a few pieces of fruit when I hand feed her or her bugs it seems like. With her acting like she’s weak in legs I’m worried we may be giving to much calcium or uvb after I read it can have the same sympthoms as not enough.
I had to change her uvb from being inside the cage to on top recently because she kept acting like she
Would try to crawl out of it no matter where it was mounted. I bought a reptisun T5 HO with a 10.0 bulb to replace it and lay on top. Last few days she wanted to lay directly under it at her highest point in the cage. Today she’s is off to the side some where she doesn’t seem to want in it. Her hotspot is around 100 and where she laying it’s about 90.
I do have a solar meeter also. I’ll add some pics around where she stays to give an idea what the ranges are.
Thank you