taylorjanisch
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Hi I really need help with Kai
She is only around 6 or 7 months old and has been healthy since I got her.
She was completely fine one day and then on friday I found her laying on her side all disoriented in her cage. I picked her up her mouth opened and she started shaking and twisting and turning all crazy. normally she loves people so i knew that wasn't the issue.
The next day i noticed it was just 10x worse and she was shaking and rolling onto her back and not able to turn back over. she also wasnt using her back legs at all and was barely walking and when she did there was no use of the back legs at all. so i called a travelling vet to come out to my house (and spent $260 may i add).
the vet said that these were in fact seizures one after another and there were multiple things it could be. (lack of calcium, bacterial infection, virus, parasite, etc.) this was on saturday. he gave her a shot giving her calcium and other vitamins hoping this would help, and antibiotics just in case. I have been doing them but have seen no improvement.
i'm not sure if her back legs are paralyzed or what? but she hasn't pooped or anything. isit possible she cant if her legs arent working?
also i'm not sure if she goes into shock or what, but it seems like when she gets scared (when people go to pick her up etc) she will open her mouth pretty wide and just freeze completely and stop breathing for a few seconds but will eventually go back to laying there.
i dont know what to do does anyone have any ideas about any of this?!
right now she is taking antibiotics by shots for the next month and has to have a little gatorade everyday to keep the blood sugar up, but so far has shown no improvement.
pleaase help my baby
this is kai before any of this happened (on the right)
this is kai now and she normally doesnt move from this position unless she uses her front 2 arms to move somewhere (not very far and very rarely)
She is only around 6 or 7 months old and has been healthy since I got her.
She was completely fine one day and then on friday I found her laying on her side all disoriented in her cage. I picked her up her mouth opened and she started shaking and twisting and turning all crazy. normally she loves people so i knew that wasn't the issue.
The next day i noticed it was just 10x worse and she was shaking and rolling onto her back and not able to turn back over. she also wasnt using her back legs at all and was barely walking and when she did there was no use of the back legs at all. so i called a travelling vet to come out to my house (and spent $260 may i add).
the vet said that these were in fact seizures one after another and there were multiple things it could be. (lack of calcium, bacterial infection, virus, parasite, etc.) this was on saturday. he gave her a shot giving her calcium and other vitamins hoping this would help, and antibiotics just in case. I have been doing them but have seen no improvement.
i'm not sure if her back legs are paralyzed or what? but she hasn't pooped or anything. isit possible she cant if her legs arent working?
also i'm not sure if she goes into shock or what, but it seems like when she gets scared (when people go to pick her up etc) she will open her mouth pretty wide and just freeze completely and stop breathing for a few seconds but will eventually go back to laying there.
i dont know what to do does anyone have any ideas about any of this?!
right now she is taking antibiotics by shots for the next month and has to have a little gatorade everyday to keep the blood sugar up, but so far has shown no improvement.
pleaase help my baby
this is kai before any of this happened (on the right)
this is kai now and she normally doesnt move from this position unless she uses her front 2 arms to move somewhere (not very far and very rarely)