Came home to Beardie with half a beard. Anybody seen this?

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ncc74656

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Only on her right side, doesn't look stressed, almost looks swelled. I can press in on it and don't feel any hard Mounds but it does have some weight to it almost like pressing in on a balloon

Closest vet to me is 3 hours, what do we think?
 

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Rubble1212

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From the picture it looks like she’s shedding? I’m guessing she’s puffing up that area to loosen up the shed but it’s just a guess. Is it still puffed up on the one side? I’ve never seen that other than my guy would puff up an area for a while when he was shedding to stretch it out?
 

ncc74656

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From the picture it looks like she’s shedding? I’m guessing she’s puffing up that area to loosen up the shed but it’s just a guess. Is it still puffed up on the one side? I’ve never seen that other than my guy would puff up an area for a while when he was shedding to stretch it out?
She's got it like that for the past hour, it was like that when I got home and she's asleep right now, I can still see it puffed out
 

Rubble1212

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Boy I wish I could help more if it we’re me I’d want to take her to the vet to have a look. She doesn’t have any kind of discharge from her nose does she? She’s not mouth breathing is she?
 

ncc74656

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Boy I wish I could help more if it we’re me I’d want to take her to the vet to have a look. She doesn’t have any kind of discharge from her nose does she? She’s not mouth breathing is she?
No there's no mouth-breathing, no type of discharge. She ate some grapes I cut up for her, she refused her roaches and kale. She's sleeping right now next to a heat vent. Figured I'd let her rest for a while and then maybe take a look in a couple hours
 

ncc74656

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I noticed she was keeping her right eye closed, it looked like there was a little something on her eyelid. I pokes her into opening her eye and then poured water over it a few times. After a bit of fussing she's now keeping her eye open so I'm kind of wondering if maybe she didn't jump and land on one of her branches, slamming her chin and getting some of the particulate thrown into her eye
 

Rubble1212

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Very well could be let me know in the morning if her eye and the swollen beard are better
 

ncc74656

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You know what, I trimmed her nails yesterday. I wonder if she didn't jump trying to grab something, not being able to hook it and she fell...
 

hdochow

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did this happen before or after you fed the grapes? i vaguely remember someone on here mentioning at times their dragon would store food instead of swallowing it. could that be what's going on here?
 

Rubble1212

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That’s interesting maybe try and message the area of the beard that’s swollen and see if you can feel a piece of grape how did you chop the grapes?
 

ncc74656

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No I fed her grapes after this, I was trying to see if he would eat anything and went through her favorite foods. Her grapes get peeled and diced
 

Rubble1212

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Shoot I thought that might be it maybe she’s stored a mouthful of grapes. See what it looks like in the morning 🤷🏼
 

hdochow

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ok. it was just a random thought cause i can't think of anything else either. you would think being that big it would involve a black beard if it was an issue.
 
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