Sturner007
Bearded Dragon Egg
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Hi all,
I have a beardie that’s five years old. She came to us sick, but we didn’t know until she stopped breathing one day and we had to rush her to the emergency vet. Due to this, She’s always been a hard keeper.
She’s gotten sick to the point where she stops eating and drinking on her own and I have to start feeding her by hand via a syringe. Almost every time that I have hand fed her she has an “episode” in which she stops breathing altogether and we have to rush her to the vet. She’s constantly in and out of the vet and is always up to date on her check-ins.
I just took her in a few weeks ago and the vet said she seemed fine, but there could be something going on internally. She just had blood work done about 4 months ago and everything came back normal. Since she hasn’t been herself lately the vet decided to put her on Ceftazidime (an injectable anti-biotic) to see if that would help her snap out of her funk. She’s been on this anti biotic for almost 10 days so she should’ve been feeling better by now.
Fast forward to tonight I was hand feeding her and she had another episode and stopped breathing. I had to rush her to the emergency vet again and by the time we handed her off to the vet, she was breathing normally. She was gasping for air in the car the entire drive. She almost didn’t make it.
The emergency vet did an examine on her and found absolutely nothing wrong with her. I am at a loss. Something is going on internally that not even her regular vet can figure out.
Does anybody know what this could be? Has this happened to anyone else’s beardie?
Please help me trouble shoot this! My poor girl is suffering and no one knows why.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice,
Samantha
I have a beardie that’s five years old. She came to us sick, but we didn’t know until she stopped breathing one day and we had to rush her to the emergency vet. Due to this, She’s always been a hard keeper.
She’s gotten sick to the point where she stops eating and drinking on her own and I have to start feeding her by hand via a syringe. Almost every time that I have hand fed her she has an “episode” in which she stops breathing altogether and we have to rush her to the vet. She’s constantly in and out of the vet and is always up to date on her check-ins.
I just took her in a few weeks ago and the vet said she seemed fine, but there could be something going on internally. She just had blood work done about 4 months ago and everything came back normal. Since she hasn’t been herself lately the vet decided to put her on Ceftazidime (an injectable anti-biotic) to see if that would help her snap out of her funk. She’s been on this anti biotic for almost 10 days so she should’ve been feeling better by now.
Fast forward to tonight I was hand feeding her and she had another episode and stopped breathing. I had to rush her to the emergency vet again and by the time we handed her off to the vet, she was breathing normally. She was gasping for air in the car the entire drive. She almost didn’t make it.
The emergency vet did an examine on her and found absolutely nothing wrong with her. I am at a loss. Something is going on internally that not even her regular vet can figure out.
Does anybody know what this could be? Has this happened to anyone else’s beardie?
Please help me trouble shoot this! My poor girl is suffering and no one knows why.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice,
Samantha