Mommydragon
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- Beardie name(s)
- Kayda
Hi everyone. Just recently joined this group. I’m looking for some answers and support.
We have a beautiful girl, Kayda, we’ve had her almost a year. She was gifted to us last September. She was growing well and eating well. We did all the research, had her set up with a 4x4x2 with a reptisun UVB T5 10.0 hood, 100 watt basking lamp, and CHE on her cool side to maintain an ambient temp of 83-85°, per her vet recommendation.
Her basking temps vary from 95-98° Since she’s a leatherback and doesn’t take to high temps. At the beginning her diet consisted of collard greens, mustard greens, and butternut squash. With crickets, dubia roaches, mealworms, hornworms, supers and BSLF. She was very picky of course! Did not take to the BSLF and preferred the Dubias. She is a 21inch 490gram beauty. She has maintained a steady weight since April.
Earlier this year, things took a turn and she stopped eating. We took her to an exotics vet and they did blood work. They said her liver values were very high. So we got her on some herbivore critical care and milk thistle. 5 months fast forward, at her routine check up, they informed us that her liver values have doubled. So they referred us to a specialist at the VCA. We had our first appointment today, and at the initial consultation we reviewed her medical history, her lack of appetite, and her past blood work. They informed us that they felt a mass in her belly, which she believes is indicative of a gastric neuroendocrine tumor. We are doing more testing to be sure. But when I did my own research. I saw a lot of other symptoms to be vomiting, weight loss, etc. thankfully my Kayda does not have any of those symptoms yet. Just the loss of appetite and high blood glucose.
Is there anything else this could potentially be? I know we won’t know until they run the full panel for her blood work, CT scan, and ultrasound biopsy. But we just want to know what other potential ailment it can be, we want to explore other illnesses so that we can ask about them with the specialist.
Thank you all for reading. I know this was very LONG. Just a worried dragon mama here.
We have a beautiful girl, Kayda, we’ve had her almost a year. She was gifted to us last September. She was growing well and eating well. We did all the research, had her set up with a 4x4x2 with a reptisun UVB T5 10.0 hood, 100 watt basking lamp, and CHE on her cool side to maintain an ambient temp of 83-85°, per her vet recommendation.
Her basking temps vary from 95-98° Since she’s a leatherback and doesn’t take to high temps. At the beginning her diet consisted of collard greens, mustard greens, and butternut squash. With crickets, dubia roaches, mealworms, hornworms, supers and BSLF. She was very picky of course! Did not take to the BSLF and preferred the Dubias. She is a 21inch 490gram beauty. She has maintained a steady weight since April.
Earlier this year, things took a turn and she stopped eating. We took her to an exotics vet and they did blood work. They said her liver values were very high. So we got her on some herbivore critical care and milk thistle. 5 months fast forward, at her routine check up, they informed us that her liver values have doubled. So they referred us to a specialist at the VCA. We had our first appointment today, and at the initial consultation we reviewed her medical history, her lack of appetite, and her past blood work. They informed us that they felt a mass in her belly, which she believes is indicative of a gastric neuroendocrine tumor. We are doing more testing to be sure. But when I did my own research. I saw a lot of other symptoms to be vomiting, weight loss, etc. thankfully my Kayda does not have any of those symptoms yet. Just the loss of appetite and high blood glucose.
Is there anything else this could potentially be? I know we won’t know until they run the full panel for her blood work, CT scan, and ultrasound biopsy. But we just want to know what other potential ailment it can be, we want to explore other illnesses so that we can ask about them with the specialist.
Thank you all for reading. I know this was very LONG. Just a worried dragon mama here.
