JenniK
New Member
Hello,
I have a two year old, female veiled chameleon, Agnes. I am currently working with a vet, but also wanted to see if anyone here might have insights as to this x-ray. Does this look like a massive bowel impaction or something else? The vet was unable to say, and we are waiting on some blood results to decide next steps. They also don't think it is egg masses, Agnes was previously spayed. This is the x-ray taken by the vet today:
Some background on her health and recent behavior:
She is a rescue who was surrendered just after reaching maturity when she became egg bound, after which she was spayed. The small metal foci in the x-ray are from her spay. However, this past summer when talking to the vet, Agnes was looking a little chunky so the vet did warn me it was possible for her ovaries to regenerate and to set up a lay bin just in case. She was not interested in the lay bin and a change to her feeding helped her slim down a bit, so I stopped worrying about this possibility.
Before the holidays I noticed her roaming the bottom of her cage and she'd been looking a little plump. I put in the lay bin and prepped our pet sitters to let me know if she was digging. She ate and drank fine for the pet sitters. The night we returned from vacation, Agnes had dug up the lay bin and made a big mess, so I thought maybe her ovaries regenerated after all. The next morning she was in the hole looking very rough and dehydrated, so we used the steamy shower method to get her to drink (I didn't let the water hit her, just let the humidity accumulate on a plant that she could drink off of). This seemed to perk her up and she resumed digging for three more days, even sleeping in the hole at times, and refusing to eat (normally very food motivated, and wasn't even eating hornworms which she normally goes crazy for). She stopped digging 2 days ago and has just been basking and looking increasingly lethargic and refusing food.
I'm not sure about her bowel habits while we were away. She has been exclusively pooping in the plants and because of this I've been finding it difficult to tell when she's relieved herself and usual have only been finding signs when they are dried out later.
We took her to the vet today, and we got back the above X-ray. We are waiting on the blood draw results. I just figured I'd share the x-ray here in case anyone has any experience that could help us when we talk to the vet again.
Here is a picture of her as well, taken after I misted her:
Thank you.
I have a two year old, female veiled chameleon, Agnes. I am currently working with a vet, but also wanted to see if anyone here might have insights as to this x-ray. Does this look like a massive bowel impaction or something else? The vet was unable to say, and we are waiting on some blood results to decide next steps. They also don't think it is egg masses, Agnes was previously spayed. This is the x-ray taken by the vet today:
Some background on her health and recent behavior:
She is a rescue who was surrendered just after reaching maturity when she became egg bound, after which she was spayed. The small metal foci in the x-ray are from her spay. However, this past summer when talking to the vet, Agnes was looking a little chunky so the vet did warn me it was possible for her ovaries to regenerate and to set up a lay bin just in case. She was not interested in the lay bin and a change to her feeding helped her slim down a bit, so I stopped worrying about this possibility.
Before the holidays I noticed her roaming the bottom of her cage and she'd been looking a little plump. I put in the lay bin and prepped our pet sitters to let me know if she was digging. She ate and drank fine for the pet sitters. The night we returned from vacation, Agnes had dug up the lay bin and made a big mess, so I thought maybe her ovaries regenerated after all. The next morning she was in the hole looking very rough and dehydrated, so we used the steamy shower method to get her to drink (I didn't let the water hit her, just let the humidity accumulate on a plant that she could drink off of). This seemed to perk her up and she resumed digging for three more days, even sleeping in the hole at times, and refusing to eat (normally very food motivated, and wasn't even eating hornworms which she normally goes crazy for). She stopped digging 2 days ago and has just been basking and looking increasingly lethargic and refusing food.
I'm not sure about her bowel habits while we were away. She has been exclusively pooping in the plants and because of this I've been finding it difficult to tell when she's relieved herself and usual have only been finding signs when they are dried out later.
We took her to the vet today, and we got back the above X-ray. We are waiting on the blood draw results. I just figured I'd share the x-ray here in case anyone has any experience that could help us when we talk to the vet again.
Here is a picture of her as well, taken after I misted her:
Thank you.
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