Hello, this is my first post here, but I have been reading the topics and comments of fellow website users for a ho minute. I am currently in need of help. I have a beardie that is having a rough time right now. For almost a month now my beardie has been having breathing issues. It first started as a slight popping noise and now he is having gagging/choking/wet exhalations. When this issue first started I took him into a vet and he was prescribed baytril 0.3ml every other day for his body weight. I do not know the concentration. So I used that for the 3 weeks he said too and I did not notice a change. I retook him in to the vet and had a talk with him about other antibiotics because I had read on here that due to baytrils overuse, some bacteria may not be affected now. He spoke of injectable (foranz) or restart another thing of baytril. I did mention to him about About this site and another antibiotic I saw that was mentioned with great success. I could not recall at the time but I was able to call him and leave a message with his receptionist. He was suppose to call me yesterday but did not. No labs or xrays have been done on my beardie. Some info on his Viv: we have a uvb/uvb/heat lamp that is 160w, sitting on the left side of his 40 gallon tank. His bedding is bark, or wood chips. He has a rock and a hammock under the light. No water dish has been in since I read on here that it can cause the humidity to rise. The other side of his tank he has made his night time area where we have a ceramic bulb. Under the white light temps reach 105+ on the rock and the night end 70-80. His diet consist of worms, Dubai roaches, and crickets.
Latest signs and symptoms— eating less but still eating. Diet is now Dubai roaches with calcium. We bathe him every other day because he is trying to shed (but this doesn’t seem the same as prior sheds), poop is still normal looking and solid, his cough is now what was mentioned earlier (wet/popping sometimes), he has these periods (mostly after eating) where it seems like he is choking, and his beard is normal but during periods of choking or roug exhales can turn blackish. One day after feeding he started going beserk and flinging his head around and eventually some cloudy liquid came out. What really worries me is tonight, ( I hope I’m not wrong for this) but I read if I hold him with his nose pointing down that this can help fluid (if in the lungs) to potentially drain out. I did this due to what I felt was rather wet sounded exhalations, and he has a lot of clear fluids (almost like a runny nose) coming out of his nose and mouth. Should I go buy tylan and nebulize him, what should I have the vet test for, ihow serious is this?
Latest signs and symptoms— eating less but still eating. Diet is now Dubai roaches with calcium. We bathe him every other day because he is trying to shed (but this doesn’t seem the same as prior sheds), poop is still normal looking and solid, his cough is now what was mentioned earlier (wet/popping sometimes), he has these periods (mostly after eating) where it seems like he is choking, and his beard is normal but during periods of choking or roug exhales can turn blackish. One day after feeding he started going beserk and flinging his head around and eventually some cloudy liquid came out. What really worries me is tonight, ( I hope I’m not wrong for this) but I read if I hold him with his nose pointing down that this can help fluid (if in the lungs) to potentially drain out. I did this due to what I felt was rather wet sounded exhalations, and he has a lot of clear fluids (almost like a runny nose) coming out of his nose and mouth. Should I go buy tylan and nebulize him, what should I have the vet test for, ihow serious is this?