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I also had to remove all her rough hides, logs, climbing areas as per the vets request (so she doesn’t mess with her stitches).

Hey everyone, Axel is 5 days post-spay and has been going into a full shed. She normally sheds fine and will rub it off on everything and everywhere and gets plenty of baths during it. She currently isn’t allowed to have baths until her stitches come out at the end of the month so I’m at a...

Thanks for your replies. She has never really Blackbearded so I think that is why is was so alarming for me. My vet also mentioned that metacam is kind of like a “better than nothing” answer for pain in reptiles. She said that dealing with reptile pain is just difficult. She mentioned that there...

My vet called and I talked with her and she said since the beard is just now presenting and her surgery was 4 days ago that she doesn’t know what it could be. She said that her surgery went so well that she can’t imagine it being anything but post op pain with healing. She also believes since...

She just started blackbearding today about an hour ago after her antibiotic injection, could that have irritated it? I called my vet and I’m waiting on a call back. These are pics now. She wasn’t blackbearding in the pics before the shot (posted first). My vet is 4 hours drive away. I’m leaving...

And on top of all of this stress it is looking like she is going into a full shed which I can’t bathe her till her stitches come out at the end of the month. I might just be panicking because this is my first reptile and my first major pet surgery. She weighed 539 grams (overweight I know) and...