Bearded dragon sick?

[LaughingBuddha]

I'll try and give you all the info I can think of sorry if it's a bit random.

My Beardie Ms Gobbles is now 11 months,16 inches long and 300g last month at the vet.
She is in a 4x2x2 wooden viv, tile substrate, 110 basking spot with thermostat and an arcadia 12% uvb tube.
She was fine up until xmas. She was 16 inches then (8 months old) but hasn't shed once since then. I think she might have gotten a bit thicker and taller. Gobbles has always been a huge eater thats why I gave her the name. Up until xmas she was eating 150-200 crickets or phoenix worms and a little fruit and veg. Most days she is not really interested in any food. She eats maybe up to 50 max a day and some days she eats nothing. I have to had feed her worms and crickets or she wont eat them. But she will go crazy for locusts she will run across the hall for one. Once she eats she just goes to sleep, she has no interest in basking. I will pick up up and place her on the basking but after a few mins she will go back down to the bottom of the viv and try and hide. She doesn't go number 2 every day any more usually every second or 3rd day. I have been bathing her every second day. The vet said she shows no signs of impaction. She doesn't like basking at all any more or being up near the uvb bulb. She spends most of her time tying to hide or at the or at the bottom of the viv. When I let her out she trys to find a place to hide under and goes to sleep.The vet gave her an x ray and she was fine. He gave me some meds and laxatives and told me to block her hides. Her hunger picked up a bit as she hadn't eaten for a week before seeing the vet. I vacuum clean the viv every other day, wipe it out when it gets dirty and give everything a scrub down every 2 weeks. I lot my job last week and im unable to work at the moment due to medical reasons so I can't afford vets bills at the moment. She is the most important thing in my life if I have to give her up for her health I will even though it would break my heart but I really hope it won't come to that.

Thanks to all who reply

 

[Phoenix23486]

Hi!
Sounds like she's going into Brumation. It's a reptiles 'hibernation'. They don't quite go into a deep sleep like bears do.
What's her cage temperature?
How often do you give her baths?
When did she last drink/ have water?
What kind of lights do you have?
Do you use a night lamp?
Do you de-chlorinate her water?
Also, Beardies don't usually shed so often, sometimes they have to be a certain temperature, they have to reach a certain humidity level, and so on.

 

[MsWanda10166]

I have a dragon, his name is Beast, I posted a very simular thread about him not eating and doing much of the same thing, wanting to hid all the time, and such. He will eat Dubia, but it took me a few months to figure that out, and he still does not eat near what my others eat. If the vet did not see an impaction, on the x-ray, then I personally would not give laxitives. Hornworms, are great for getting them to poo, if your dragon will eat them. What I do with my Beast is make sure he is good and awake each day. I turn on lights, and give him an hour to come out on his own, if he does great, I feed him and so on like normal. When he does not come out on his own, I wake him up. We start with a bath, and I make it slightly deep in the tub, and he swims, while frantically trying to get out of the tub. After he has got his blood pumping, from swimming, he usually acts normal for the rest of the day. I will warn you my Beast is a fit tosser, and he submerges his head, to the point that I think he is going to drown himself, but he always comes up for air, usually about 1 second before I am ready to reach in and snatch him out. (lol) Other things that I tried before the to deep bath, were Vet visits, with 2 different vets, fecals done numerious times, Vitamin B shots, leaving him alone to brumate for a couple of weeks,(he started loosing weight) force feeding him a pinkie (I will never do that again) The baths are what seem to work, hopefully when summer gets here, only a couple more weeks, he will straighten up. I do have home fecal test ordered from http://www.beardeddragon.co just to make sure that I do not see anything on them. My vet is good, but I would rather be safe than sorry, and the closest exotic specialist is over 2 hours away. I spent a lot of money taking my Beast to the vet, to only find out after the 5th visit, they could not do a blood draw. I am hesitant to go to another vet, untill I can speak with someone at a repticon or something simular, to get a good recomendation.
Good Luck