Please Help!!!! Swollen leg!!

[DisguisedMadness]

**********UPDATE***********

Took little miss to the vet tonight. She has fluid in her abdomen (which I hadn't noticed) her other leg was starting to swell, and her poor leg looked aweful. Turns out she has worms and a bacterial infection AND I was using the wrong kind of water on her this WHOLE time!!!! Vet was super nice and gave me the meds for free. He said she could have kidney disease, but the wrong water and the infections could be why her abdomen is swollen..

[Bolisnide]

Poor baby! What kind of water were you using?
And what is the prognosis?

[DisguisedMadness]

Poor baby! What kind of water were you using?
And what is the prognosis?

Doc's said that if it's just the infection, medicine and force feeding will help her heal in about 3 months.. If it's kidney disease, then the prognosis is not good.. Maybe a week.. So let's pray that the change of water and meds help. I was using bottled drinking water instead of spring water.

[Purrdoc]

Sounds like you are on the right track. The hardest part of dealing with these guys is they take forever to heal, so you just have to hang in there. Fortunately, you seem to have a vet that has a clue about herps, so that is good, as well as one that cares enough to help you out. Let's hope that it isn't the kidneys and you can get through this.

[DisguisedMadness]

Sounds like you are on the right track. The hardest part of dealing with these guys is they take forever to heal, so you just have to hang in there. Fortunately, you seem to have a vet that has a clue about herps, so that is good, as well as one that cares enough to help you out. Let's hope that it isn't the kidneys and you can get through this.

I really hope she gets better soon. I had to drive to a vet 2 hrs away but he was incredible.. At first he thought with the fluid in her abdomen that it would be a good idea to put her down (because we could not afford the labs and whatnot) but then he lanced her other leg to see if there was a parasite. There was a flatworm in there, which gave us some hope that it's the bug and not kidney failure. So he sent her home with meds and told me to keep her on brown paper towels til she heals.. I really, REALLY hope this works.

[Purrdoc]

Hang in there. It is unfortunate that there aren't more vets that are willing to treat herps. I'm in Southern California, and it amazes me how far people travel to come see us with their exotic pets. I'm glad you were able to find someone and make the trip- it sounds like it was worth it. It would be really nice if you might be able to give him some updates over the phone, just to let him know how she is doing- better, worse, or the same. Just leave a message that you are calling with an update so he knows the progress. So much of what we do is uncharted territory and we lose our patients to follow up, so it is nice to know what works and doesn't work.

Good luck and keep us posted.

[DisguisedMadness]

Hang in there. It is unfortunate that there aren't more vets that are willing to treat herps. I'm in Southern California, and it amazes me how far people travel to come see us with their exotic pets. I'm glad you were able to find someone and make the trip- it sounds like it was worth it. It would be really nice if you might be able to give him some updates over the phone, just to let him know how she is doing- better, worse, or the same. Just leave a message that you are calling with an update so he knows the progress. So much of what we do is uncharted territory and we lose our patients to follow up, so it is nice to know what works and doesn't work.

Good luck and keep us posted.

Oh I definitely will!! I told him that when I can afford to, I'm gonna bring her back for a followup and checkup. I just gave her the first dose of oral meds for the worms and she didn't like that at all!! She kept acting as though she wanted to throw it back up (it didn't come tho, thank god) We also put silvadine on her leg to promote healing of that leg.. I'm gonna take pics next time I administer it to check progress. I need to force feed her the crickets, but I'm not sure how she would do it and I'm scared of accidentally choking her.