The vet claimed that she has experience in treating reptiles (including tortoises) and that also she was consulting with another vet through this. A few reptile owners recommended her as a good vet in my city, so I believed she's a good specialist.
I am very thankful for your help and your...
I described about RI situation and antibiotic treatment in the first post of this thread... One of my questions was "Could it be from antibiotics?".
I know that the jokes were not supposed to be offensive, so please let's just leave everything at that..
I just don't know what to say. It really breaks my heart that I didn't learn something like this before taking the tortoise to the vet. I should have, there's no excuse. I'm searching for some articles about this and going to call all the vets tomorrow to talk.
Thank you all so much for your support.
Kathy Coles, I am rethinking this over and over where I made a mistake. I am pretty sure I had the temperatures, housing and diet right, because I did a lot of constant research on the net. However, on warm summer days I would let her roam around the...
I think mikeh is right. She just changed radically overnight after her first shot of antibiotics and, although I am far from expert, I don't think it was a coincidence. I was strongly hoping all your comments were true and that was just flashing.
Lilly didn't survive. It was like 10 minutes later after I wrote my last post here, that I went to her terrarium to check on her to find she was not moving.. It's just devastating to lose her after 5 years. Thank you all for the help and advices.
Update. It's the 4th day of the treatment and it seems my tortoise gone from not well to terrible. It's color turned slightly paler and brownish yellow (to me it's a visible change). His front legs look skinnier and the skin is peeling off a lot everywhere. Also, she started to leave tiny...
I posted here another thread a few days ago about my tortoise getting sick with RI. We went to see a vet who gave Lilly antibiotics. The second day the she started to urinate small puddles and the urine smells really strongly. So the vet changed the antibiotics and said it should be alright now...
Thank you, guys, for your good wishes. Today we went to the clinic once again for another injection. However, the vet switched to other antibiotics, because Lilly's urine started to smell strongly.
mikeh, I can't remember exactly what kind of antibiotics she's getting, but I'll ask the vet...
Hi all,
we went to see a vet yesterday and she said it's obvious that Lilly has trouble breathing and it's probably because of RI :( She prescribed injectable antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs. So, now we have to visit a clinic everyday for 3 days to see if my little one's getting better...
Yvonne G, thank you so much for a quick response! I already read your advice on other similar threads and used it but unfortunately nothing has changed :( So, I guess, I'm just going to keep my girl extra warm and hope for good news from a vet. Will let you know how everything went
Hi everyone,
I'm sorry to start my first thread on such a sad note but maybe someone could give me some advice.
So, my Russian Lilly (7 yrs old) started to act strange about 3 days ago. She's stretching her neck and opening her mouth quite wide (like every 30 seconds or so), like there's...