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Beardie anxiety, need advice
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[QUOTE="CheetosOwner, post: 2025276, member: 118025"] I have a 3 year old beardie who in the last few months had developed a weird trait. Her tail and legs twitch involuntarily, touching or not touching her. Even now as I am typing this, her tail almost seems like it’s vibrating every couple of mins. When I touch her tail , it’s not like she is flinching away, it just twitches. Her legs mostly twitch while pooping. Now her front legs have gotten so swollen too in the last week, and she basically drags her butt when she walks. She stands on her hind legs to walk but in her cage she just drags herself. She also keeps falling off her basking rock, I had to take it out because she kept falling onto her back which freaks me out. When I take her out of the cage she explores my room so she doesn’t have that lethargy. She goes to the bathroom once a day, poops like she always does normally, the only thing off about that is sometimes her urate is hard like a rock and when I break it in half, it’s like the calcium powder I gave her re-solidified. She eats OK, she likes kale and the vegetable medley I buy from Petsmart or zucchini and green pepper, and once a week I do horn worms. I buy water bottles and give her water from the bottles from Costco. And I bathe every day sometimes twice a day. Researching online has told me metabolic bone disease, but I need to know what to do now. I know I need to go to the vet bit nobody is taking exotics, what can I do right now ? Like I care so much for her and I just don’t know what’s happening. Some backstory is I stupidly had a coil UVB because I am just so stupid I did not realize they were bad for beardie. And I spent in debt almost $1000 on all new product, 3 months ago on UVB tubes, new lamps, more 100 watt bulbs and went from a 40gal to 70 gal, new decor. I did not dust all her food in calcium everyday due to it being in her urate like rocks. I bought liquid calcium recently but I don’t know if it’s working. Is it too late? Like are the swelling, the twitching, the falling over all signs that I just am a terrible owner. Like I love her more than anything and I can’t believe I messed it up potentially. And I’m sorry for posting such a long thing. I just need advice to make her better. Thank you . [/QUOTE]
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