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Beardie ER
Vet wants me to consider putting down
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[QUOTE="Subion, post: 2029241, member: 114709"] Hi Tracie, She can move good when she needs to. Like if she gets to hot when we’re at Theo ark she’ll climb up my shoulder and fight me with all her strength. Her back legs she can walk but sometimes she won’t straighten them out or stand up fully on them it seems. Since she’s lost weight and muscle mass in all her legs the vet thinks it’s where she’s been sick and not eating and having so many of these spells where she gets swelling and weak that it could also be where she’s not as active as needs to be. Especially since she won’t really walk at all when she gets these spells and sometimes they last a long time, around a month. Since she started her meds she has had some swelling in her front paws again and maybe one of her back legs looked a little swollen to today when I got her up top give meds but with how she’d was laying I’m not 100% sure. Seems how these spells happen, she had trouble walking then the swelling hits. Her uric acid is low because she hasn’t had much protein in the last month or so. The vet here wanted me to remove it incase it was her gaulbladder again until we saw the specialist and had the ultrasound done. In the last month or so she started getting some BSFL 2 weeks before her vet visit with the specialist. First Saturday I gave het 5 then the following day 7. So it defiantly is low from that. As for the iron the vet doesn’t seemed to concerned with it right now. She said she wants to get the infection treated first and see how it does. I have looked at every store for kelp and all I can find around here is stuff that is in pharmacy pill form. If I try to find some online should I get like a fresh or a powder version. I’ve never felt with kelp before so not sure what’s best. I’ll also look for molasses this weekend just incase I can’t find kelp. I assume just a small drop mixed with water for it since I know it’s thick. We went to the park yesterday for about 2.5 hours and when she set in the sun she held her head up. When she’s get hot she’d fight me to try to climb in shade like she was feeling better. She’d try to climb on my shoulder when we were just sitting in the car with window open and climb seat belt so I had to move her to other side. But as soon as we were headed home she went all flat like she was exhausted and that’s what she does most the time we are home even if we go outside. She’s just in those spells again with the swelling and leg shaking. That’s usually how she always goes though this when it happens. I’m hoping the meds kick in soon and help. I’m also not sure if her feeling tired is from the meds so it’s hard to tell how she’s truly feeling right now. From what the vet told me also with her calcium being so high it can look like the same symptoms of mbd because her muscles and stuff would be sore and stiff. So I’m hoping that’s is part of it and as each day go by it’ll get better as we get it lowered. I’m also hoping that the buildup in the joints around the knees will deteriorate since she said it could be caused by high calcium. Only issue is her crit care has a small dose of calcium in it and since the vet wants her back on vitamins, all the vitamins I can find for these guys have calcium in it so i don’t know how long it’ll take to start losing if she’s getting all that. I do have a question though. With her calcium being high is it better for her to be in the sun and under her lights more or will it drain more if she sleeps without the lights and stuff on her as much? I’m not sure how that actually works so if one is better at getting it out of her system faster I’d rather try that. [/QUOTE]
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