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- Helio (M 31/03/22) & Sobble (F 19/06/22) - Kept in seperate enclosures
Hi all, my partner and I are very stressed + worried about our boy Helio and would really appreciate any extra help or advice at this time. He is a 1 year and 5 months old, husbandry info in profile.
Early morning August the 21st I happened to notice out of the corner of my eye Helio dragging his back leg. Just the evening prior I had him out and he seemed to be behaving completely normally, so the dragging was really sudden. When I examined him I saw that his back leg was noticeably swollen + flinched if I touched it. This was at about 7am, maybe?? Anyway, called up a local vet clinic here that specialises/only sees exotic animals (reptiles, birds, etc.) and they squeezed him in at 1pm to get checked out. Even over those few short hours the swelling noticeably worsened, and they decided to admit him. His back left leg was the worst, but by then *all* his limbs were noticeably swollen. Behaviour wise that day he was *extremely* placid, pancaking flat, not reacting to being handled or change in environment, and very sleepy.
That evening the vet called us to let us know that his UA levels were sky high- so high that they were above the max measurable range. His calcium levels were also elevated and he was slightly anaemic, indicating pseudo gout. X-ray results the next day showed some calcium deposits in his forearms, confirming the suspicion of pseudogout. He ended up spending three days inpatient at their clinic receiving IV fluids (+ daily bloods) and showed some improvement over that timeframe.
We took him home after three nights receiving IV fluids with the instruction to give him 0.6 allopurinol alongside 0.3 Tramadol daily and an injection of antibiotics (can't remember the name off the top of my head) every three days. We are also to give him daily soaks, and try to get him to drink as much water as possible. Since then, we have been following those instructions religiously and it's been night and day. The swelling has gone away/down, he is active, responsive, runs around + lifts himself up, eats his greens, drinks water from the dish in his tank (he has always been great at drinking from it tho!) and drinks when my partner does the droplets during bathtime. He's been doing a lot of poos that are just urate (the white section) this last week too, some soft and some hard/crystally.
Yesterday did a follow-up with the vet and I've just gotten the results of his new bloods.
It's not good. His UA is back to being scary high and we are to continue with the allopurinol + tramadol, and even then we should expect him to have a drastically shortened lifespan. With this high of a UA level she would admittedly prefer to hospitalise him to administer IV fluids to try to flush it out, but she recognises that we can't financially afford that right now.
I've been hospitalised (and still in hospital) since the 1st of September to undergo treatment for a brain tumour, which means my partner has had to take on sole care of Helio (except for his shots- partner has to bring Helio to me in hospital as he faints at the sight of needles
). Since the 21st, I've spent a little over 2k on him for all the hospital/bloods/etc. he's needed but now I've literally got 30cents to my name and I'm just so so overwhelmed and scared for him.
I don't know what to do, or how more I can help him, why he's getting worse again when he had been acting/appearing so much better and I just really really need for him to be okay or to have a direction to get him to okay.
Please, if anyone can have a look at his bloods/x-rays, give me any advice or has any recommendations/insights I would really really appreciate it right now.
Early morning August the 21st I happened to notice out of the corner of my eye Helio dragging his back leg. Just the evening prior I had him out and he seemed to be behaving completely normally, so the dragging was really sudden. When I examined him I saw that his back leg was noticeably swollen + flinched if I touched it. This was at about 7am, maybe?? Anyway, called up a local vet clinic here that specialises/only sees exotic animals (reptiles, birds, etc.) and they squeezed him in at 1pm to get checked out. Even over those few short hours the swelling noticeably worsened, and they decided to admit him. His back left leg was the worst, but by then *all* his limbs were noticeably swollen. Behaviour wise that day he was *extremely* placid, pancaking flat, not reacting to being handled or change in environment, and very sleepy.
That evening the vet called us to let us know that his UA levels were sky high- so high that they were above the max measurable range. His calcium levels were also elevated and he was slightly anaemic, indicating pseudo gout. X-ray results the next day showed some calcium deposits in his forearms, confirming the suspicion of pseudogout. He ended up spending three days inpatient at their clinic receiving IV fluids (+ daily bloods) and showed some improvement over that timeframe.
We took him home after three nights receiving IV fluids with the instruction to give him 0.6 allopurinol alongside 0.3 Tramadol daily and an injection of antibiotics (can't remember the name off the top of my head) every three days. We are also to give him daily soaks, and try to get him to drink as much water as possible. Since then, we have been following those instructions religiously and it's been night and day. The swelling has gone away/down, he is active, responsive, runs around + lifts himself up, eats his greens, drinks water from the dish in his tank (he has always been great at drinking from it tho!) and drinks when my partner does the droplets during bathtime. He's been doing a lot of poos that are just urate (the white section) this last week too, some soft and some hard/crystally.
Yesterday did a follow-up with the vet and I've just gotten the results of his new bloods.
It's not good. His UA is back to being scary high and we are to continue with the allopurinol + tramadol, and even then we should expect him to have a drastically shortened lifespan. With this high of a UA level she would admittedly prefer to hospitalise him to administer IV fluids to try to flush it out, but she recognises that we can't financially afford that right now.
I've been hospitalised (and still in hospital) since the 1st of September to undergo treatment for a brain tumour, which means my partner has had to take on sole care of Helio (except for his shots- partner has to bring Helio to me in hospital as he faints at the sight of needles
). Since the 21st, I've spent a little over 2k on him for all the hospital/bloods/etc. he's needed but now I've literally got 30cents to my name and I'm just so so overwhelmed and scared for him.I don't know what to do, or how more I can help him, why he's getting worse again when he had been acting/appearing so much better and I just really really need for him to be okay or to have a direction to get him to okay.
Please, if anyone can have a look at his bloods/x-rays, give me any advice or has any recommendations/insights I would really really appreciate it right now.
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