HeavenlyKira
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- Beardie name(s)
- Anduin
This may be long since I want to give a history of my boy. To start, I took my boy to the vet today (7/23/24) due to an episode he had on Saturday, three days previously. I say episode because I have no idea what happened. If I can attach videos I’ll put a video of his episode, but essentially my boy is usually very calm and he out of no where started spazzing out and looked so terrified that if I had interacted with him, I think he would’ve bit me because he had his mouth wide open ready to strike. I thought either stroke/seizure or some other neurological thing but I’m not sure.
Anyways I take him to the vet and they aren’t really sure what happened, so they ask to keep for the night to run tests the following day. Well she got the fecal back this evening and called me to let me know that he had Cryptosporidium and that it’s not curable and that she doesn’t know how long he will have to live because all lizards with it are different, but made it sound like no matter what this will eventually be what kills him. They are still going to do blood work and a CT scan if I approve it (I’m questioning since it’s expensive and not guarantee they find anything) to try and find out any neurological problems If he has them since she said the parasite wouldn’t be related to what happened in the video.
As far as the history I wanted to give, I’ll try to make it brief but when he was 9 months old he was the size of a 3 months old, so he’s always seemed to have something. He’s pretty much has always had a battle with parasites his whole life (coccidia and pin worms), a year or two ago I brought him to the vet for his eyes watering when he would focus on food (no diagnosis found) and then five months ago I brought him in for head tremors when focusing on food (also no diagnosis). To now whatever this episode was.
I wanted to give that background in case maybe it has to do with the Cryptosporidium or if it’s for some larger problem he has that we can’t diagnose. But I guess my overall question, how long do dragons usually have to live when they get Cryptosporidium? I’m just so heart broken about this all. Sorry if this post seems all over the place, I’m still processing. Thank you for reading though and please feel free to ask any questions. I’ll also include a video of his head tremors and picture of watery eyes just cuz.
His episode
His watery eyes
I can’t embed the tremors but hoping it attaches. Haven’t used this before
Anyways I take him to the vet and they aren’t really sure what happened, so they ask to keep for the night to run tests the following day. Well she got the fecal back this evening and called me to let me know that he had Cryptosporidium and that it’s not curable and that she doesn’t know how long he will have to live because all lizards with it are different, but made it sound like no matter what this will eventually be what kills him. They are still going to do blood work and a CT scan if I approve it (I’m questioning since it’s expensive and not guarantee they find anything) to try and find out any neurological problems If he has them since she said the parasite wouldn’t be related to what happened in the video.
As far as the history I wanted to give, I’ll try to make it brief but when he was 9 months old he was the size of a 3 months old, so he’s always seemed to have something. He’s pretty much has always had a battle with parasites his whole life (coccidia and pin worms), a year or two ago I brought him to the vet for his eyes watering when he would focus on food (no diagnosis found) and then five months ago I brought him in for head tremors when focusing on food (also no diagnosis). To now whatever this episode was.
I wanted to give that background in case maybe it has to do with the Cryptosporidium or if it’s for some larger problem he has that we can’t diagnose. But I guess my overall question, how long do dragons usually have to live when they get Cryptosporidium? I’m just so heart broken about this all. Sorry if this post seems all over the place, I’m still processing. Thank you for reading though and please feel free to ask any questions. I’ll also include a video of his head tremors and picture of watery eyes just cuz.
His episode
His watery eyes
I can’t embed the tremors but hoping it attaches. Haven’t used this before
