Gandalfthebeardiee
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Hi! I just want to start off with saying I have a vet appointment scheduled however it is 3 weeks out, and they said if I need an emergency visit I can give them a call, but before I do that I have a few questions to see if it is urgent. I have a 9 month old female bearded dragon, over the course of the past few weeks, going on a month, her appetite has greatly decreased. She is not interested in anything, not greens, not banana (her favorite), not roaches, not crickets, not even superworms (she used to go crazy for supers). She is alert and very active during the day, running all over the house (supervised of course) every chance she gets. Her last poop was Thursday, I believe, however it was just a urate. I felt her belly there is nothing hard or lumpy so I do not think it's an impaction issue. I thought that maybe since she was not getting as much calcium as she needs that maybe that is what threw her off, so over the past 2 weeks I have been giving her the appropriate dosage of liquid calcium 3 times weekly and liquid multivitamin twice a week. I do feel better shes getting the supplements she needs, but it doesn't seem to help her appetite. Another thing I noticed about 2 weeks ago is she would open her jaw real wide and it would make a popping/crunching noise. She has a reptisun 10.0 t8 mounted in her tank and I have measured UV levels and they are very good. I do not believe this is MBD, I felt her jaw and it feels solid, not rubbery and it doesn't hang open etc. However, she stopped opening real wide so I thought that maybe it was a phase and everything was sorted out until tonight, I gave her some blueberry and when she'd chew she would open wider than usual and a clicking/popping noise would come from her mouth. (I caught this on video, if you guys want/need to see it I can upload to YouTube and post the link). Anyways, at this point she has lost 10 grams in a week (went from 375 to 364) I just would like some advice as to if I'm overreacting, need to see a vet asap, what I should do about her not eating and losing weight. Anything would help! Thank you.