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Odd swaying/head bobbing behaviour
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[QUOTE="Faventia, post: 2033046, member: 118278"] UVB light is good, I believe. This is the current basking light we have in their tanks: [URL='https://exo-terra.com/products/lighting/all-in-one-bulbs/solar-glo-wide-beam-125w/']Exo Terra Basking Bulb[/URL] Calcium blood levels are actually high (potentially excessive calcium in diet or vet suggested she may not have been born with the best kidneys??? Other girl who was from a breeder- but same age and had for same length of time- doesn't have any indications of pseudogout or the like). Could be excess toxicity though because the supplement powder we were dusting with is a D3 & Calcium combo- but then I'm not sure why our other girl hasn't been effected or what we would need to do to lower D3 levels if it's causing toxicity. But yeah, definitely stopping that stuff till her kidneys recover enough to begin doing their job again + flush all the excess out. Blood tests done two months ago showed "marked elevation in CK: muscle trauma UA and Ca: pseudogout, rena lfailure, dehydration. excessive Ca in diet. Ca of this level is within reference ranges for CBD" "PCV (%) = 28 TP (g/L) = 80 Plasma Colour: Clear Buffy Coat Appearance: Enlarged" "Erythrocytes are slightly decreased on smear and do not display significant anisocytosis, poikilocytosis and/or polychromasia. Leukocytes overall are within normal range for morphology. Manual differential count: Heterophils: 70% Monocytes: 16% Lymphocytes: 14% Thrombocytes estimation is adequate. No organisms or neoplastic cells found. **Interpretation** Slight non regenerative anaemia Inflammatory leukogram, most likely" It was essentially the sky-high UA and CA levels alongside the acute episode of swollen, painful limbs that lead them to suspect pseudo-gout. They did some x-rays and imaging showed up "radio-opaque lesions noted in both forearms just proximal to the carpus ddx: pseduogout - Ca deposits" She's still eating quite well thank goodness, but we're now having trouble getting her to drink water (both during baths and from the bowel of water in her tank she used to regularly drink from). My partner used to be able to get her to drink in baths by doing a droplet at a time on her nose, but now she just shakes her head or refuses to open her mouth when he does it. Last night he used one of the oral med syringes to get some water into her (in the same way we'd get her to drink her meds), should we continue doing that if we can't get her to drink in the bath/during the day?? [/QUOTE]
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