amputation

[MelLoughman]

hello all, I received very scary news from the vet today that the male beardie I adopted has tail rot so he is now on antibiotics and scheduled to have a portion of his tail amputated on Tuesday.

I was wondering if any of you have gone through this and could tell me how he will be affected by it and how long the surgery takes. Basically I'm just one scared mama trying to get all the reassurance I can that he will be okay

 

[Rampagingraptor]

I personally never have, but I have seen several things on it. As long as it doesn't become infected (which it shouldn't), your beardie should be perfectly fine. Its good you caught it!
Also, many beardies live very healthy lives with small portions and even their entire tail missing without any effect on their lives at all.
Course, now you should measures snout to vent, but that's really the only thing different.

 

[AHBD]

I agree, if done properly it should be no problem. How much of the tail will be removed ? Can you post a pic of his tail ? Here's how to post :
https://www.beardeddragon.org/useruploads/

 

[MelLoughman]

here are pictures of him, the vet said that a little over half of his tail has to go to make sure they get it all

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[AHBD]

Can you get a couple of closer pics of the near bottom part ? And do you know what happened ? It doesn't look that bad from those pics.