I brought Westlee home 12/2 knowing she had MBD, pet store was giving her liquid calcium. Took her to the vet last Tuesday, she got a 'clean' bill of health- told to continue 3 units of calcium twice a week. She has a low count of coccidia, not treating at this time. She also had some pinworms, got some Panacur which I gave her on Saturday.
She has tremors when handled. Sometimes she goes stiff. The first week she seemed to be lessening with the tremors, I am trying not to handle her too much right now. But am trying to bathe her at least every other day. She doesn't always eat by lunch, so I will pick her up and put her at the food bowl. Last few days she has been worse with the tremors when I pick her up. I think today it was a seizure rather than a tremor. I was trying to syringe her the calcium, which she usually takes- but she backed up, stiffened and fell off her branch, then seized a bit.
She is 4 months old and weighed 29g when I got her , a week later was 32g, this Sunday was 34g, today she is 32g again. Comparatively, my other beardie is 3 months- in the same time frame he went from 77g to 101g! She does eat, not great though. Eating roaches and some greens, don't think she has eaten any squash. She doesn't seem to do much, at least not when I'm around. Poops are ok, she seems to have a larger portion of urates than my other guy. And there is a puddle of water around the poo.
Tank is a 20L, reptisun 10 tube, temps are 105-83.
COuld the Panacur have made things worse? Should I increase the liquid calcium? Am I stressing her out by giving it to her? She takes water from syringe great, just doesn't want the calcium anymore.
Really worried. Advice appreciated
She has tremors when handled. Sometimes she goes stiff. The first week she seemed to be lessening with the tremors, I am trying not to handle her too much right now. But am trying to bathe her at least every other day. She doesn't always eat by lunch, so I will pick her up and put her at the food bowl. Last few days she has been worse with the tremors when I pick her up. I think today it was a seizure rather than a tremor. I was trying to syringe her the calcium, which she usually takes- but she backed up, stiffened and fell off her branch, then seized a bit.
She is 4 months old and weighed 29g when I got her , a week later was 32g, this Sunday was 34g, today she is 32g again. Comparatively, my other beardie is 3 months- in the same time frame he went from 77g to 101g! She does eat, not great though. Eating roaches and some greens, don't think she has eaten any squash. She doesn't seem to do much, at least not when I'm around. Poops are ok, she seems to have a larger portion of urates than my other guy. And there is a puddle of water around the poo.
Tank is a 20L, reptisun 10 tube, temps are 105-83.
COuld the Panacur have made things worse? Should I increase the liquid calcium? Am I stressing her out by giving it to her? She takes water from syringe great, just doesn't want the calcium anymore.
Really worried. Advice appreciated
I honestly think that she was not getting enough calcium. It takes a little bit of time for the blood calcium to stabilize if it is low. I would continue with the twice a day calcium, for another couple of weeks, anyway.
