Home
Care Sheet
Visitor Photos
Product Selection Guides
Bearded Dragon Care Q&A
Forums
New posts
Search forums
Resources
Latest reviews
Search resources
Bearded Dragon Care Q&A
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New resources
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Help
Website Help Guides
Contact Us
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Bearded Dragon Discussions
Beardie ER
Seizure...Stroke?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
[QUOTE="bayoupig5, post: 1996700, member: 27248"] Hello All, Well I got the blood results back. Good news is, she was not as calcium deficient as they had expected. Ratio was about 1.6 : 1, vet would prefer to see 2: 1, but considering her predicament that is a pretty good number. Likely her shaky legs and seizures are not from calcium deficiency. But they are now ruling in/out a bacterial/viral infection as opposed to neoplasia, plus poor electrolyte balance which may point to adrenal disease. I have been giving her quite a bit of slurry veg though, as she will not eat veg. on her own no matter what I do to entice her. As she had been losing so much weight since the egg laying I had increased veg. slurries and Repashy Foods up to 25 mls 5 days per week. the other two days she would get bugs if she wanted. I do not think this would dilute her electrolytes (sodium), but it is more water intake than she has had over the years. She does pass about 1-2 tsp of water with each bowel movement and her urates are either semi formed, formed or soft, with 1 bowel movement per day...usually. That is unless she is about to lay and then it can be up to 4 small bowel movements a day. Lately, she had gone every day or every second day. The vet suggested I strain the veggie slurries and add a little Pedialyte instead to see if that helps restore the balance. I thought what I could do is spoil my Littlefoot this month and just go ahead and provide more bugs, and do slurries about 3 times per week and less, in quantity... about 10 mls. I do not want to give her too much Pedialyte and cause an imbalance in the other direction. Any advice as to how to feed during this treatment would be greatly appreciated. Bad news is this could be cancer given high WBC, they are concerned about a reproductive cancer or a cancer of the brain, that would not be great, but there is nothing I can do. In order to rule this out, I have been given my favorite Ceftazidime injections...yay me! I will start these tomorrow. If this is an infection or bacteria, the hope is the antibiotics will wipe it out and the WBC should go down. Another reason I would like to spoil my little girl while I can. Between all the injections and the possible cancer diagnosis, I want to give her the best I can for the next 4 weeks. Here are the results CPK was very high too. I read that this is usually due to muscle injury....does anyone know about this lab result? Total Protein - 48 Range 33 - 73 Albumin - 21 Range 15 - 37 Globulin - Range 13 -3 9 AST (SGOT) - 75 Range12 - 107 BUN - 0.5 Range 0.4 - 1.4 Phosphorus - 1.47 Range 0.84 - 3.02 Glucose - 9.6 Range7.1 - 16.3 Calcium - 2.40 Range 1.7 - 5.68 Sodium - 138 Range 143 - 173 LOW Potassium - 5.4 Range 2.6 - 6.1 Chloride - 108 Range 103 - 145 CPK - 7278 Range 17 - 3421 HIGH Uric Acid - 228 Range 71 - 500 WBC Estimate - 21.0 Range 2.8 - 14.6 HIGH Hematocrit - 25 Range 23 - 39 RBC Morphology - Normal Blood Parasites - Negative Het/Poly - 42 Absolute Het/Poly - 8.82 Range 1.15 - 6.24 HIGH Toxic Changes - None Seen Lymphocytes - 52 Absolute Lymphocytes - 10.9 Range 0.36-8.17 HIGH Monocytes - 1 Absolute Monocytes - 0.21 Range 0.01 - 1.08 Eosinophils - 1 Absolute Eosinophils - 0.21 Range0 - 0.36 Basophils - 1 Absolute Basophils - 0.21 Range 0.01 - 0.82 Azurophilic Monocytes - 3 Absolute Azurophilic Monocytes - 0.63 Range - 0.01 - 1.54 Thrombocyte Estimate - Adequate Comments - leukocytosis with heterophilia and lymphocytosis Diagnosis: infection/inflammation (bacterial/viral) vs neoplasia Na/K ratio 25 - poor electrolyte balance? adrenal disease? Does anyone know what Absolute het/poly means when it is high? Now when I compare Akasha's results (the dragon that recently had to be euthanized), I see a lot of things for her actually did point to a type of cancer, High WCB, High Eosinophils, High Basophils, extremely low glucose...sigh. Littlefoot is still doing ok, but she still has tremors, she had some twitching in her back thigh and her right toe often twitches up and down (like she is impatient), but no seizure as of yet. I hope it stays that way. I have heard some infections cause neurological issues. I hope this is what it is for her and can be fixed. She ate 5 canned silkworms today, she got 10 mls of mixed veg by syringe yesterday (escarole, radish top, carrot top), and is in the middle of a major shed. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Bearded Dragon Discussions
Beardie ER
Seizure...Stroke?
Top
Bottom