Sweetie_Cheeks
Hatchling Member
- Beardie name(s)
- Echo-Lina
My girl is almost 3 yrs old. Starting around 1 year ago I started noticing odd reactions after she consumed food or water. Her stomach looked like a thin band was tied around her stomach and stomach spasms/skin twitching started happening more frequently. I’ve take her to a total of 6 different reptile specialists and had tons of testing done along with blood work several times and most recently it was extensive blood work. All was normal except a few abnormal cells) is all the dr said. We gave her an entire course of antibiotics(needle injected at home) and again returned for blood work. All came back clear. However, I’ve been consistently telling the dr (her current one) and 3 vets before him: that she hasn’t been shedding properly the last couple of sheds and it looked like she had several layers. They completely dismissed me and kept telling me her skin looked completely normal. (I’m ocd with her and I mean that as I’m diagnosed with ocd) and I’m very observant and particularly observant when it comes to her) and I knew her skin didn’t look normal but they wouldn’t do anything for it. After a lot of help from different people on bearded dragon pages: I finally saw a bit of hope. It was a full body shed and was shedding so healthy looking. Then after a few days I started noticing what seemed like her shed retracting back and reattaching sort of. That’s when I got worried again. So back and fourth with this for about 2 weeks and the shed was completely stuck back to her body. I noticed her hands looked swollen and her legs looked limp. So I proceeded o help her remove the shed and it was 3-4 layers in some places. After about 3 days I got what looked like all of it off (super careful, didn’t pull anything or tear anything off, just did a million things to help loosen the skin and assisted while in the bath to get it all of the way off.)and her behavior bounced right back to normal and she was such a happy girl with the most healthy vibrant beautiful skin that she used to have before all of this started. That was about a month ago. Since then she has this black stripe on her chin and now all of a sudden a couple of days ago her tail is covered with scales seemingly turning black by the minute. The sides of her tale are real rough and she flinched if I touch it, her skin is darkenening again and she’s avoiding her basking around and doesn’t move around at all (like before) we’re right back to the skin issues and idk what’s happening to her skin and why the black spots have all of a sudden shown up this time?? We replaced her enclosure and I disinfected/scrubbed/rinsed/soaked then baked everything that goes inside. She has brand new tile flooring and lighting,temps and everything are all exactly how they should be. So I’m at a complete loss here. Not one of the 6 vets were of any help except the current one and that’s only due to the extensive blood work and antibiotics. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sorry so long. Thank you