Menolly07
Juvie Member
The night before last I found Kaz awake at 11:30. Usually he sleeps soundly. He had his eyes open and a dark beard. He was very lowly contrasted and pale as well. The next day I found he was still pale and had a very dark tail. Additionally, he was darkly bearded off and on.
I made an appointment with the vet yesterday, and he was seen earlier today. The vet did a physical exam as well as swabbing his mouth and throat and doing a gram stain. He came back to tell me that the gram stain was fine.
Tonight I was up very late and found Kaz, at 2am, had his head lifted high up, that beardie push up they do where their back body is flat but their front arms are pressing the front of their body up and their chin is lifted high.
I took him out, and he was awake. He began ballooning hia beard and letting his air out. It sounded like a balloon or air mattress letting out the air held. He dis it several times. He was also gaping and seems to have a really mucousy mouth.
I did get some video.
https://youtu.be/mobHvwJEvJk
Has anybody ever experienced a seemingly healthy gram stain but found that the lizard still had an URI?
He completed a four week course of Panacur (4 doses, every seven days) and Metronidazole (2 doses, fourteen days apart) for pinworms and because another dragon had protozoa.
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He was definitely in distress last night, and we did end up going to an emergency vet. The vet on staff has general experience with herps but not specialized. She said that the video, combined with other items of concern, did point to an issue with breathing, focus on a URI as potential cause.
She took XRays.
The lungs ARE clear. However, there are strange formations along the left side of his abdomen. They're locationally unusual to be impaction, and he IS eliminating his stool. Additionally, he is confirmed DEFINITELY male. The vet, and I, are a little stumped. She's going to forward the XRays to a specialist she knows as well as to the practice's reptile vet. The herp vet doesn't return until Monday.
Additionally, I am going to forward them to Kaz's regular vet as well as another vet.
The vet actually wonders if the distress with his breathing is being caused by Those Things pressing against his left lung. It's difficult to tell location in the lateral xray.
I made an appointment with the vet yesterday, and he was seen earlier today. The vet did a physical exam as well as swabbing his mouth and throat and doing a gram stain. He came back to tell me that the gram stain was fine.
Tonight I was up very late and found Kaz, at 2am, had his head lifted high up, that beardie push up they do where their back body is flat but their front arms are pressing the front of their body up and their chin is lifted high.
I took him out, and he was awake. He began ballooning hia beard and letting his air out. It sounded like a balloon or air mattress letting out the air held. He dis it several times. He was also gaping and seems to have a really mucousy mouth.
I did get some video.
https://youtu.be/mobHvwJEvJk
Has anybody ever experienced a seemingly healthy gram stain but found that the lizard still had an URI?
He completed a four week course of Panacur (4 doses, every seven days) and Metronidazole (2 doses, fourteen days apart) for pinworms and because another dragon had protozoa.
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He was definitely in distress last night, and we did end up going to an emergency vet. The vet on staff has general experience with herps but not specialized. She said that the video, combined with other items of concern, did point to an issue with breathing, focus on a URI as potential cause.
She took XRays.
The lungs ARE clear. However, there are strange formations along the left side of his abdomen. They're locationally unusual to be impaction, and he IS eliminating his stool. Additionally, he is confirmed DEFINITELY male. The vet, and I, are a little stumped. She's going to forward the XRays to a specialist she knows as well as to the practice's reptile vet. The herp vet doesn't return until Monday.
Additionally, I am going to forward them to Kaz's regular vet as well as another vet.
The vet actually wonders if the distress with his breathing is being caused by Those Things pressing against his left lung. It's difficult to tell location in the lateral xray.