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Anyone know signs of gastric adenocarcinoma (stomach cancer)?
My berdie has not eaten in almost a month on her own. After about two weeks, brought her to the vet who confirmed she looked in great health, light and husbandry are all good. Prescribed Metronidazole to help entice an appetite. we tried lots of other foods to no avail. During this time we started syringe (force) feeding her two things from vet: Oxbow Critical Care & Canivore Care. Still no eating on her own. Back to vet for xray and blood work. Ruled out egg issues, impaction, etc. Only thing on bloodword that came back was a slightly elevated white blood count which apparently is a sign of parasites. She had those before, but no symptoms of that this time, but treated anyway. The past week it's like she is burping or regurgitating. She does this regularly throughout the day and a few days back it was bad after she was force fed. She never threw up, but she was in obvious discomfort after feeding. Vet then said to stop feeding and feels there is a good chance she has gastric adenocarcinoma (stomach cancer), which apparenlty is common in bearded dragons. Also, she seems very bloated/full of gas (which did show on the xray).
It should be noted, for the last two years, she brumented for about three months starting in August. She basically sleeps the entire time (which I'm told can be hard on their system). I would wake her weekly for bath and she'd be awake for a day and eat, then back to sleep. Starting In late July, she seemed to start on schedule, sleep for couple days then awake and eat, back to sleep. This only went on for a couple weeks, then she stopped eating altoghter, but is AWAKE ACTIVE!
We can do exploratory surgery (ummm, no) or an barium study of GI tract with ultrasound that was still rather invasive. I would really rather we find out more info and don't see any need to put her through that if there is no treatment for the stomach cancer anyway.
Overcap - 3 yr old female beardie will not eat on her own for past month, nothing significant came out of xray or bloodwork, UVA/UVB light is good, seems to regurgitate or "burp", is awake and active and does not seem sick at all!
If she has stomach tumor/cancer, wouldn't she act sick?? I just keep thinking this is how she is choosing to brument this year - which I know seems silly b/c she's not even hiding, much less sleeping.
My berdie has not eaten in almost a month on her own. After about two weeks, brought her to the vet who confirmed she looked in great health, light and husbandry are all good. Prescribed Metronidazole to help entice an appetite. we tried lots of other foods to no avail. During this time we started syringe (force) feeding her two things from vet: Oxbow Critical Care & Canivore Care. Still no eating on her own. Back to vet for xray and blood work. Ruled out egg issues, impaction, etc. Only thing on bloodword that came back was a slightly elevated white blood count which apparently is a sign of parasites. She had those before, but no symptoms of that this time, but treated anyway. The past week it's like she is burping or regurgitating. She does this regularly throughout the day and a few days back it was bad after she was force fed. She never threw up, but she was in obvious discomfort after feeding. Vet then said to stop feeding and feels there is a good chance she has gastric adenocarcinoma (stomach cancer), which apparenlty is common in bearded dragons. Also, she seems very bloated/full of gas (which did show on the xray).
It should be noted, for the last two years, she brumented for about three months starting in August. She basically sleeps the entire time (which I'm told can be hard on their system). I would wake her weekly for bath and she'd be awake for a day and eat, then back to sleep. Starting In late July, she seemed to start on schedule, sleep for couple days then awake and eat, back to sleep. This only went on for a couple weeks, then she stopped eating altoghter, but is AWAKE ACTIVE!
We can do exploratory surgery (ummm, no) or an barium study of GI tract with ultrasound that was still rather invasive. I would really rather we find out more info and don't see any need to put her through that if there is no treatment for the stomach cancer anyway.
Overcap - 3 yr old female beardie will not eat on her own for past month, nothing significant came out of xray or bloodwork, UVA/UVB light is good, seems to regurgitate or "burp", is awake and active and does not seem sick at all!
If she has stomach tumor/cancer, wouldn't she act sick?? I just keep thinking this is how she is choosing to brument this year - which I know seems silly b/c she's not even hiding, much less sleeping.
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