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Beardie ER
Tumour/Swollen Left Throat Gland
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[QUOTE="orangebud, post: 2007987, member: 116785"] Hi Tracie, Been monitoring him to make a better decision after your comments. The issue to me is him losing weight on the tail for so long and consistently thinner. It is almost certainly the protozoa, flagelados. But why does the antiparasitic treatment not control it. Going for a poop test this week hopefully. he poops VERY irregularly at the moment or it would already be done. So few and far between it is usually on a friday when the vet is closed for 2 days. His appetite is what i would call good, but he has a the ball in his throat making eating a chore. Here are a couple of images i managed to snap: The conclusion i arrived at from observing him so long is... that the tumour more an inconvenient blockage to his day to day. Like you can see it is behind the mouth in the throat. It prevents him grabbing bugs effectively being so big. however it has not grown the past 3 weeks. Only the tail slowly loses fat. So, based on what you said, he should have it operated on and removed if it is straight forward. HOWEVER, why can we not stop the fat loss around the tail base is my long concern.. The vets dont speak english well and for health and law things i like to be sure everything is known and understood. Plus the vets dont have a ton of experience with older reptiles. Just dont want to make him worse or create other problems for him. Literally doesn't look old at all apart from the tail fat loss. But because the tail has been getting skinnier for years i always wonder if there is an underlying problem that is not parasites.. If the vets were more experienced down here (south spain) id simply trust and go with their advice. But it's more that i have to tell them what to do, they only offer up some possibilities. See what you think from the pics, maybe you've seen something like that in the past. Thanks very much for your time Tracie :) John P.S. thanks for the CBD oil tip, I was not aware they responded to it. I have given him medical THC oil in the past (which includes CBD) in small dosage as a test as in this area a lot of people treat major illnesses with it. I read that Reptiles do not have the receptors for THC a while ago so gave up on that pretty quickly. Raw Apple Cider Vinegar is great for Alkalising our bodies, is it good at all for the dragons to help give them some internal equilibrium? [/QUOTE]
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