bmcalinden29
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Good morning everyone,
My girl almost 13 over night on Friday had a prolapse. It was the most stressful thing I ever experienced with her.
I cried calling over 40 different places that night that couldn't take exotics right away. Each one said no. My husband and I did what we could to keep the prolapse moist and take her in somewhere that morning.
That morning. We took her to her usual vet office who thankfully let me bring her in. They did the surgery successfully. Wasn't a huge prolapse. Could have been because of the sugar water bath we did. It shrunk some.
They stitched her up and sent us off with some medicine. Meloxicam, antibiotics for 10 days, and 2 extra dewormers. She's finished with everything except the pain/anti inflammatory and antibiotics.
She pooped Sunday thankfully. Very liquid and saw a uriate thankfully. She told me to feed her regular diet but I was worried of it being too solid. So thankfully she gave me critical care to feed her with crushed greens. Force feeding my bearded dragon is stressing her out a lot. I hateeeee doing it but she's not quite eating on her own yet. How much each meal should I be giving her of that critical care? How many times a day?
I want to be making sure I am not over feeding her or too little. It's hard to tell just how much is too much. She fights me regardless with the syringe.
I have noticed she's been keeping her eyes closed a ton and never keeps them open as much as she use too. This is a new behavior. She did this when she prolapsed but she's still doing it all the time and her neck beard line is black. I am assuming this is stress and pain? Can I give her a nice warm bath? I have been putting drops of water on her snout but she's not caring for that.
How long can I expect her to be in pain for after the surgery? I feel so awful this happened to her .
She has a recheck soon.
My girl almost 13 over night on Friday had a prolapse. It was the most stressful thing I ever experienced with her.
I cried calling over 40 different places that night that couldn't take exotics right away. Each one said no. My husband and I did what we could to keep the prolapse moist and take her in somewhere that morning.
That morning. We took her to her usual vet office who thankfully let me bring her in. They did the surgery successfully. Wasn't a huge prolapse. Could have been because of the sugar water bath we did. It shrunk some.
They stitched her up and sent us off with some medicine. Meloxicam, antibiotics for 10 days, and 2 extra dewormers. She's finished with everything except the pain/anti inflammatory and antibiotics.
She pooped Sunday thankfully. Very liquid and saw a uriate thankfully. She told me to feed her regular diet but I was worried of it being too solid. So thankfully she gave me critical care to feed her with crushed greens. Force feeding my bearded dragon is stressing her out a lot. I hateeeee doing it but she's not quite eating on her own yet. How much each meal should I be giving her of that critical care? How many times a day?
I want to be making sure I am not over feeding her or too little. It's hard to tell just how much is too much. She fights me regardless with the syringe.
I have noticed she's been keeping her eyes closed a ton and never keeps them open as much as she use too. This is a new behavior. She did this when she prolapsed but she's still doing it all the time and her neck beard line is black. I am assuming this is stress and pain? Can I give her a nice warm bath? I have been putting drops of water on her snout but she's not caring for that.
How long can I expect her to be in pain for after the surgery? I feel so awful this happened to her .
She has a recheck soon.