My cham thinks she is gravid

Notice her drab color. This is her i dont feel good color. You may not know this about her but she is a rescue-i actually stole her away from a petco that was trying to kill her w mbd. I have had her several years but she has just become normal acting. Walking and gripping etc.
 

Gosh, her color is not good at all. Has she always had that spinal deviation over her loins? (From MBD?)

She doesn't look at all as I expected her to look. I've had a few chickens with internal laying and egg yolk peritonitis and their belly has been quite full.

Can you describe her digging behavior in detail? Temps? My little Mickey Malthe has started digging and it has nothing to do with eggs.

Do you have any idea how old she is?
 
Sometimes just throwing ideas out for a complicated problem is a good thing. Other times it just makes a lot of distracting noise.

Research into spaying in a reptile veterinary manual will discuss the problem the OP is having.

If the ovaries are not taken out, the chameleon will likely continue to ovulate. There are reasons a vet might leave the ovaries in and I think the reasons relate to their surgical skill rather than a medical decision. The right ovary is very very close to the vena cava, a major blood vessel, and the left one is attached to the adrenal gland. A chameleon is very small--there isn't a lot of room when doing the surgery. It is not the same as a simple spay of a dog or a cat.

I know in chickens, castrating roosters is often ineffective as they will regenerate testicular tissue if any is missed. It might be possible that the the ovaries were removed in the surgery but a bit of tissue was left and regrew enough to produce the hormones regulating laying.

Psychosomatic is not a term I would attach to too many animals' illnesses, especially something as primitive as a reptile. Psychosomatic is an illness due to mental/emotional involvement. Chameleons are pretty simple--they eat, they sleep, they reproduce. They do not have neuroses. That a vet would use that term is worrying.

Perhaps not Psychosomatic since you don't like that term but very likely hormonal, this is a very common in many animals after spaying but a fecal and blood work would be good too, to ensure the ovaries did not grow back or other internal injuries.
 
Gosh, her color is not good at all. Has she always had that spinal deviation over her loins? (From MBD?)

She doesn't look at all as I expected her to look. I've had a few chickens with internal laying and egg yolk peritonitis and their belly has been quite full.

Can you describe her digging behavior in detail? Temps? My little Mickey Malthe has started digging and it has nothing to do with eggs.

Do you have any idea how old she is?
Gosh, her color is not good at all. Has she always had that spinal deviation over her loins? (From MBD?)

She doesn't look at all as I expected her to look. I've had a few chickens with internal laying and egg yolk peritonitis and their belly has been quite full.

Can you describe her digging behavior in detail? Temps? My little Mickey Malthe has started digging and it has nothing to do with eggs.

Do you have any idea how old she is?
Her color was that way when i got her and she was almost dead w mbd. Her casque was soft and leaning back and to the side. She had no grip and had lost 4 toe nails, she had that humongous spinal twist. She made me sad to look at. The vet at the time said, she was gravid. But i couldnt tell yet. He said she probably could not manage it because of mbd. That was late 2013. When i took her they had told me they had her 6 months in a shoebox size cage with an old uvb light and she had gotten sick and laid eggs. So, she had to be 1, 1,5 in early 2014 she laid 35 eggs. Then, 40, then 49. Then this last one, she got spayed instead. She is probably 3.5.
I am sending pics of her normal look. Her eyes are NEVER like this. She has plump, healthy hydrated look. She always flys her tail. She is deformed and has a rolling walk. I built special cages because of her inconsistant grip and ability to get her legs under her.she has that flattened horizontal look from the mbd.Her temps fluctuate because i let her free roam a little. The house is about 75 all day, but she lays in the morning sunlight on top of her cage every morning. She even digs at her towel she has to sit on sometimes. When she digs, she starts one place for a few hours, then goes to start a different place. The next morning, still a different place. I moved the bin cause she was exhausted.she doesnt dog the same way either. Only front legs. The hole is never deep enough to use both 4 legs
When she wakes up she is her normal light sea green but darkens when she lays in the sun. I think the real sun is helping her. Im going
Gosh, her color is not good at all. Has she always had that spinal deviation over her loins? (From MBD?)

She doesn't look at all as I expected her to look. I've had a few chickens with internal laying and egg yolk peritonitis and their belly has been quite full.

Can you describe her digging behavior in detail? Temps? My little Mickey Malthe has started digging and it has nothing to do with eggs.

Do you have any idea how old she is?
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Gosh, her color is not good at all. Has she always had that spinal deviation over her loins? (From MBD?)

She doesn't look at all as I expected her to look. I've had a few chickens with internal laying and egg yolk peritonitis and their belly has been quite full.

Can you describe her digging behavior in detail? Temps? My little Mickey Malthe has started digging and it has nothing to do with eggs.

Do you have any idea how old she is?
 
Gosh, her color is not good at all. Has she always had that spinal deviation over her loins? (From MBD?)

She doesn't look at all as I expected her to look. I've had a few chickens with internal laying and egg yolk peritonitis and their belly has been quite full.

Can you describe her digging behavior in detail? Temps? My little Mickey Malthe has started digging and it has nothing to do with eggs.

Do you have any idea how old she is?
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I really think the spayed operations did the toll on her since she wasnt in her best shape in the beginning of her life,if it wasnt for u to take good care of her,she probably wont even last for 3yrs long,but what is done is done,now if she cant recover soon there is only one option left,and that probably will be the hardest decision for u to decide,in the mean time,make sure at least she is hydrated and hopefully she will start eating soon on her own.
 
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