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Osteomyelitis advice?
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[QUOTE="Spider8ait1994, post: 1976418, member: 101939"] Ok so here’s an update on Spike. I picked him up this afternoon from the vets and I also was able to get a copy of his X-rays. The relatively good news is that it appears the affected patches of bone aren’t massive. As for the lump the antibiotic treatment he’s been on has been slowly improving it, while he was under for the X-rays I consented to having the vet surgeon take a biopsy which has been sent away for analysis though the theory we have with this confirmation of osteomyelitis is that the lump is likely a secondary symptom of it. I have read that with appropriate treatment the outlook is often pretty good. As I said in my original post he is still eating insects and vegetation in addition to calcium supplements and time almost daily outdoors in the natural sunlight weather permitting. He’s definitely a strong and otherwise healthy dragon particularly compared to his condition when I first got him. The plan we have for now is to treat it with the anti inflammatory painkiller Meloxocam given orally every 2 days and continuing the antibiotics, Ceftazidine, given intramuscularly every 3 days for at this stage 6 months. He has a post proceedure checkup on the biopsy site in 7 days and a follow up/antibiotic refill in a month. We also plan to schedule regular dental checkups and dental cleaning whenever it’s necessary. I’ll attach his X-rays here for anyone curious.[ATTACH type="full"]65237[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]65238[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]65239[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]65240[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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