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Beardie ER
Vet wants me to consider putting down
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[QUOTE="Subion, post: 2028947, member: 114709"] we got back late last night from the vet because of weather being bad so here’s the update from the vet and a small update on what been going on with Zilla. So it’s going to be a long post and I’m sorry in advance for the read. Fri Zilla started having trouble walking again and didn’t even want to swim. Sat she took one bite of a cherry and that’s all she would eat and her walking got worse. She did however swim a little in her pool in the hotel room. Yesterday she wouldn’t eat at all not sure if It’s from stress of the trip or just not feeling good. Anyways I got a lot of info from the vet, I’ll try to go over what I can remember off head and may have to add more later if anything pops up. So when we got to the vet I showed her the last blood work results they took here and she said she’s surprised they didn’t send us to her sooner. Her hemocrit (think that’s the name) was a 3 and she says that was a cause for emergency concern. That at 12 they are considered anemic. So she did blood work and got different results. Hers showed 15 so she’s getting slightly low on iron. I thought she was going to put her on meds to raise it but I have to double check since what they gave me at the office didn’t have anything for iron. I was so tired at that point though I may have misunderstood her. Besides the trip we were at the vet for about 4 hours for tests. Her uric acids and protein count is extremely low. I told her she hasn’t had many insects since the last swelling episode we just started her again incase it was her gaulbladder. We were trying to give it time to clear out some. She also felt a lump in her belly that worried me. She asked if she’s been going potty and I told her she goes every day or two in the tub. So she did an ultrasound to check everything. The good news is she didn’t see any follicles or anything like that back from her surgery. The lump all she could see was her internal fat pads as she said looks good and that’s what she felt. She was surprised since Zilla had lost a lot of weight and her fat pads on the outside need some work. So she wants me to start giving her 5ml of crit care a day until she starts getting built back up then we can slow down. Her ultrasound also revealed her liver is a little large and her gallbladder is still a little misshaped and larger than normal with some stuff in it. But it’s nowhere near as gunked up or as large as it was a few months ago. So she said with her protein low and how her gallbladder is looking she fills I can start giving her bugs once a week without worrying about it swelling up and we’ll see how she does while she’s getting proteins again more regular. She just wants me to switch out and not give the same types of insects week after week. Her heart looks fantastic, no trace of fluid and beating strong. She said possibly the best she ever saw her heart. So now of course I have some worrisome news. She took an X-ray and it does show some swelling and possible crystallization around the knees. She said it’s defiantly not gout though. In her bloodwork her calcium is way to high again. Where the vet here showed it was normal range with the labs he got back and gave her some calcium and even had me give her some it needs to come down. So she thinks it’s calcium deposits in the joints at this time. She said the level is suppose to be around 1.4 in bearded dragons and Zillas was I think 2.49. Again I may be off on that number I have it wrote down but not able to check it at the moment. The other thing is her blood work is showing she had another infection. She’s worried because Zilla seems to keep getting infections that she’s not sure what could be the cause. If it’s something new or if it’s the same one and the antibiotics is not getting rid of it. So she put her on some meds again. If they don’t seem to help or clear the infection up we may have to reevaluate and possibly might have to do surgery to go in and try to clean her out again incase something is hiding inside her. She’s been having issues with infections since her first surgery and with how much a mess she was inside when they did this previous one she said there could be a small infection hiding somewhere in her they didn’t see. So if it would come to surgery they’d have to try to get a better look and with how hard it was last time to just operate and remove the follicles they would have to look longer and try to hope they could find the cause. She says let’s wait and see how she does on these meds and update her before she comes off and we’ll figure out when would be a good time to get more labs to double check on the infection and calcium since I live so far away. I am truly praying the meds clear it up. I don’t know if I could have the heart to put her through another surgery. She was prescribed cipro and medicam again to try to help her. she’s also staying in the milk thistle and Ursodiol for now. I asked about the serrapeptase and she’s not to familiar with it but looked it up really quick. She said since she’s not been on it for the last few weeks and one of the things it does is help break down proteins to hold off since Zilla hasn’t had much protein. She’s also going to look up and see what all info she can find on it to familiarize herself more with it and see if it would be a benefit for Zilla to take. She also wants me to start giving vitamins to her 2-3 times a week again where the vet here told me not to give any vitamins when I first saw him. Anyways we’re home now and Zilla is exhausted today so I’m just going to try to get her up for meds and hopefully eat some and get a little sunshine when it quits being cloudy and rainy, the rest of day I’m leaving her sleep. I think she earned it after this trip. [USER=8309]@Drache613[/USER] i have a pic of her labs and tests if you’re interested. The X-ray unfortunately doesn’t show the joint issues too well. We couldn’t get a good shot of it with the vet showing me the stuff off her phone. [/QUOTE]
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