Lenny
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Hi, I haven't logged on for a very long time, but now I need some help. My 4 year old veiled chameleon is very weak since last Sunday. I found him on the bottom of his cage and when I tried to put him back on a branch he would just fall off. He seemed still very alert so I brought him to the vet the next day.
He suspected that he probably has some neurological weakness from a calcium deficiency. Which made sense because I realized that his UV bulb was probably overdue and I hadn't been dusting as much as I should. So I'm kicking myself for what I had done. The vet said that if I feed him calcium daily, put him close to his UV bulb, and get some sunshine if possible (very cloudy winter) he might recover. So right now I'm trying to feed him once a day and try to get him confortable. He still falls on his side and is too weak to get up. He can't even crawl. The vet also says that the calcium injectables never work (any opinion on that?).
Lenny isn't getting worse. He still seems alert and stills wants to move around. He just can't. Is there anything else I should be doing? Any other threads with similar cases?
He suspected that he probably has some neurological weakness from a calcium deficiency. Which made sense because I realized that his UV bulb was probably overdue and I hadn't been dusting as much as I should. So I'm kicking myself for what I had done. The vet said that if I feed him calcium daily, put him close to his UV bulb, and get some sunshine if possible (very cloudy winter) he might recover. So right now I'm trying to feed him once a day and try to get him confortable. He still falls on his side and is too weak to get up. He can't even crawl. The vet also says that the calcium injectables never work (any opinion on that?).
Lenny isn't getting worse. He still seems alert and stills wants to move around. He just can't. Is there anything else I should be doing? Any other threads with similar cases?