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We got the autopsy results today for Fern. The impaction resulted from the enlarged kidneys. His kidneys were very damaged. Deposits of tophi and granulomas were found in and around most of the joints, in his kidneys, connective tissues and lung. His kidneys certainly were shutting down due to...

Thanks, everyone. Yes, I think everything was far too damaged by the time he even started showing symptoms of gout. We are glad we gave him the best life possible for the short time he was here. We are getting a necropsy and histopathology? done and will have the result in a week and a half. We...

Hi there, everybody. With a heavy heart, I am sad to say we had to euthanize Fernie. Due to the chronic dehydration from the kidney disease, he got impacted again and could not relieve himself on his own. The vet did not have the supplies to perform an enema and the only thing we could give him...

http://s781.photobucket.com/user/shaninja420/library/?view=recent&page=1 photobucket link...not sure how else to get them on here. In the fourth and fifth picture you can see how swollen his left elbow is. The pictures of his foot is for the swollen toes. I'm aware he is underweight, he's...

Oh, and no, we don't have a way to test the uvb output unfortunately. The devices we were looking at cost a couple hundred dollars. His lamp is mounted ontop his tank screen. Its not a mesh screen though, its metal, and has lots of open spaces in between the rungs. I'll take a picture of that as...

I haven't had a chance yet to get any pictures but I recently discovered I can bluetooth them to my computer from my phone. I'll do that today and have them up by this afternoon. His poops are still very large and malformed...instead of being straight and cylinder like, they are more balloon...

Also, if it were NSPH, how would we go about correcting the imbalance of calcium to phosphorous? We are making sure that the veggies he eats have the correct ratio but I'm not sure what else we could be doing. Is a value of 3.4 very low for calcium?

Hi there, thanks for checking in. He hasn't had an adeno test done yet. Our vet said its very common for them to test positive even with no symptoms. So he said that we could have one done but it wouldn't really tell us a whole lot if he did test positive and either way, if it were adeno, we...

That happened to me when I first got my beardie. He was eating fine for about a week when he didn't want much to do with food anymore and on some days was only eating 2 crickets and no veggies. He didn't want to move and just laid there a lot, not doing much of anything. I would get a fecal done...

Also, I'd like to note: When he does get dark and depressed after the pain meds, if we give him a bath he brightens right up only to go dark again when returned to his tank. His basking temp is around 100-102 degrees. I'd prefer it to be a little higher, but when he could move around on his own...

So update on Fernie... He's now on Tramadol and Allopurinol for pain and treatment of gout. I know I'm supposed to reduce his protein intake though I haven't been able to regulate it as much as Fernie has. He used to eat 40 and now he eats 25-35 a day probably due to the illness. He won't eat...

Update: I couldn't get a copy of the blood results. It was on a piece of paper and my phone couldn't take a good enough pic to send it on here. What I can tell you is that all his levels are normal except the uric acid being 32 and his phosphorus levels are about one and a half times larger than...

Thank you both. We are bathing him three to four times a day. The vet didn't specifically say there was tophi present, I just assumed after he was diagnosed with gout, the swelling and lumps were due to tophi. However ; our fill-in vet while our regular vet is away seems to think that NSHP is...

Our vet just called and said he had been researching information on fernie's symptoms and came across something called NSHP. I don't know what it stands for but it can apparently mimic gout and is caused by certain brands of calcium with d3 including T-Rex brand. Has anyone ever heard of this?

And we can use some help with how much black cherry juice we should be giving him. We dilute it 1 tablespoon of extract to 1 cup of water as directed by the bottle.

Hi Tracie! Thanks soo much for responding, from what I've read on here, you're really knowledgeable! He was given a dose of albon at 0.02 ml. He was around. 05 kg at the time. He had since gained weight up to. 07 kg hut I fear he is losing weight now. He was also on panacur for worms. He was...

Please help anybody? How am I supposed to get the required amount of fluids into him when he won't drink readily? Am I supposed to force it? Should I completely cutout his protein source of crickets? He still needs it to grow so I'm not sure what to do.

Okay thank you. We are really worried about him. He was up to 40 crickets a day plus veggies before this came on. Now he is down to 16 a day. He was already underweight to begin with due to the parasites. He is looking dehydrated As well and won't take fluids readily. We are forcing them into...

Okay, I've heard both black cherry and just cherry juice. Which has one and how much to give?

Hi everybody, My little guy Fernie has had swollen toes and elbow now for two weeks. He had just been treated for coccidia a month ago and he was already dehydrated due to the parasites in the first place. About a week to two weeks after the albon was finished, we found him limping one morning...