New Rescue, With Eyes Closed

Andee

Chameleon Enthusiast
Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Veiled, Female, 10 months old, only been with me today
Handling - I only handle her to feed her, which is sadly done forcefully
Feeding - Have fed her watermelon and a cricket, she has been fed mealworms and crickets in the past. Plan to feed mealworms, crickets, dubias, and silks
Supplements - She was dusting with Reptical and herptivite
Watering - She used both a hand mister and a automatic though the automatic was only set at 15 second intervals for every 3 hours
Fecal Description -Don't know she has yet to have a bowel movement with me and no she has not been tested
History - She was not given properly dusted feeders before the woman who had her before me had her.

Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen
Lighting - Reptisun compact, I plan to get her a tube uvb, and a 60 watt heat lamp.
Temperature - I am not sure, will look and update when I get my infared reading.
Humidity - Humidity reads around 65% then climbs to 80% when I hand mist
Plants - Not yet
Placement - On the kitchen table for now, she is in iso
Location - California

Current Problem - She has what I think is a vitamin deficiency. Because she is not sleeping yet her eyes are closed to the point where I can't see her pupils. Should I go to the vet right away? I am seriously worried because she isn't eating on her own.
 
She has not laid eggs, and though she technically is of an age where she can I think, she is far too undernourished to lay them imo. Though this doesn't mean her body isn't creating some, sadly.

Here are the photos as requested.

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She is about three and a half to four inches at most.
 
You will also need to get her supplement schedule corrected. W/O D3 4-6 times weekly, D3 twice monthly and multivitamin twice monthly.
 
I took her to the vet today, because I was worried and force feeding was getting hard. She got a vit/calicum injection, she has started opening her eyes slightly. And is drinking by herself. I have a liquid calcium supplement to give to her and then she got dewormed and anti-prozoan, antibiotic. And I think that's it, they flushed her eyes, so hopefully things will get better.

Her supplementing schedule will be normal, I will get her on my panther's schedule.
 
I have liquid calcium to give her everyday, but my question is do I still powder her food with regular calcium too? Or do I just rely on the liquid and then do D3 and Vitamins?
 
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