Hi everyone, I came on here the other day about my girl Meeko who had swelling in her front arms.. Took her to the vet for X-rays and found that the bones in her front toes and back ankles are losing a little of their density, but nothing extremely bad.. Vet said it’s early stages of MBD as the bones that were affected weren’t that bad and she wasn’t exhibiting any other symptoms, and other than that she was healthy. She sent us home with two weeks worth anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, and liquid calcium (all orally). Vet said I won’t be noticing any differences until the first week of meds is over with, and I’m currently on day 5 and I feel like she’s getting worse instead of better.
Yesterday I noticed her back legs were shaking slightly while I was holding her, and she just looks really bad in general.. Her beard is always black, she’s lost her appetite, and when she’s not outside of her tank she’s just really lethargic. When she is out of her tank she’s moving around quite a bit, but I can see that she’s starting to have issues walking too which wasn’t happening before she was at the vet just a few days ago. Maybe It’s just because I didn’t see it before (I was gone on vacation for 3 weeks and someone else was caring for her), but I’m losing my mind over it.
I addressed the issue that caused the MBD, I have a reptisun 10 t8 tube that I just replaced with a new one last week that she can get 7 inches from but for the first month that I had her (I’ve had her for 6 months) it was up far too high and in addition to that she has always tried to stay away from the calcium dusted crickets I gave her, she was still getting calcium but now I know it wasn’t nearly enough and feel absolutely terrible about it. She was also under a compact UVB bulb for who knows how long at the store I got her from, as she was as a year old when I got her.
Since she stopped eating her crickets and greens I’ve been giving her squash baby food mixed with calcium dust through a syringe along with water the same way, and yesterday I started giving her strawberry soy yogurt through the syringe as well in case the antibiotics are making her feel the way she’s feeling.
Her meds that she’s been dosed with are .17ml of calcium once a day, .25ml of baytril once a day, and the anti-inflammatory is pre dosed and I have to give that to her every other day.
Basically, I wanna know if I should be concerned that it seems like she’s getting worse or if I just have to wait a little bit for stuff to start working? I feel awful as it is that she got MBD and seeing her look so bad is making me lose sleep at night. All of my lights and temps are correct, basking temps stay around 100F and all the lights stay on from 8am-9pm.. like I said, the UVB was the t8 tube the entire time that I’ve had her, was just up too high for the first month or so that I got her (tank is 2ft high and I stupidly mounted it right at the top). She had her first vet visit 3 months after I got her and was given a clean bill of health, including fecal, only issue was that her right front leg was slightly swollen which we now know was likely the MBD. Any advice or suggestions is appreciated.
Yesterday I noticed her back legs were shaking slightly while I was holding her, and she just looks really bad in general.. Her beard is always black, she’s lost her appetite, and when she’s not outside of her tank she’s just really lethargic. When she is out of her tank she’s moving around quite a bit, but I can see that she’s starting to have issues walking too which wasn’t happening before she was at the vet just a few days ago. Maybe It’s just because I didn’t see it before (I was gone on vacation for 3 weeks and someone else was caring for her), but I’m losing my mind over it.
I addressed the issue that caused the MBD, I have a reptisun 10 t8 tube that I just replaced with a new one last week that she can get 7 inches from but for the first month that I had her (I’ve had her for 6 months) it was up far too high and in addition to that she has always tried to stay away from the calcium dusted crickets I gave her, she was still getting calcium but now I know it wasn’t nearly enough and feel absolutely terrible about it. She was also under a compact UVB bulb for who knows how long at the store I got her from, as she was as a year old when I got her.
Since she stopped eating her crickets and greens I’ve been giving her squash baby food mixed with calcium dust through a syringe along with water the same way, and yesterday I started giving her strawberry soy yogurt through the syringe as well in case the antibiotics are making her feel the way she’s feeling.
Her meds that she’s been dosed with are .17ml of calcium once a day, .25ml of baytril once a day, and the anti-inflammatory is pre dosed and I have to give that to her every other day.
Basically, I wanna know if I should be concerned that it seems like she’s getting worse or if I just have to wait a little bit for stuff to start working? I feel awful as it is that she got MBD and seeing her look so bad is making me lose sleep at night. All of my lights and temps are correct, basking temps stay around 100F and all the lights stay on from 8am-9pm.. like I said, the UVB was the t8 tube the entire time that I’ve had her, was just up too high for the first month or so that I got her (tank is 2ft high and I stupidly mounted it right at the top). She had her first vet visit 3 months after I got her and was given a clean bill of health, including fecal, only issue was that her right front leg was slightly swollen which we now know was likely the MBD. Any advice or suggestions is appreciated.
