18-24 month old female, she started losing weight a few months ago, went down from 292g in March to 271g on May 3rd. Then down to 252g on May 8th.
Right around then other symptoms appeared,
-wandering around the cage, as if confused
-trying to climb the cage and then losing her balance and falling backwards
-falling over while walking; almost as if her legs are not working right
-trouble holding food- if I give her a treat she cannot pick it up
-porphorin discharge
She will go over to the water bottle and then just stand there. I can't tell if she forgets what she is doing, or if she has trouble seeing the spout, or what.
She will come out of her hut, make a lap of the cage and then go back into the hut. I can't tell if she's in pain, and trying to get away from it, or if she's forgetting why she came out and then decides to go back.
Thinking it was an infection, I started her on baytril and amoxicillin right away as soon as I noticed the symptoms, last Thursday, and then the vet put her on metacam on Monday. He wasn't confident enough to give a diagnosis at that time. He said he didn't think it was respiratory.
She does not appear to be getting better. She is down to 235g yesterday.
She is still hungry, and will eat applesauce and yogurt when placed in the cage, and Ensure when I inject it into her mouth, but I don't think she is interested in eating her regular food (perhaps because she cant pick it up). She didn't seem interested in a piece of fried egg earlier.
Also, when I tried to give her a capful of ensure, she kept getting it in her nose and then would have to sneeze it back out. IDK if this is just her being unfamiliar with drinking from a bowl, or because she couldn't hold up her head. I am very worried.
How can I narrow in on what is wrong with her?
Right around then other symptoms appeared,
-wandering around the cage, as if confused
-trying to climb the cage and then losing her balance and falling backwards
-falling over while walking; almost as if her legs are not working right
-trouble holding food- if I give her a treat she cannot pick it up
-porphorin discharge
She will go over to the water bottle and then just stand there. I can't tell if she forgets what she is doing, or if she has trouble seeing the spout, or what.
She will come out of her hut, make a lap of the cage and then go back into the hut. I can't tell if she's in pain, and trying to get away from it, or if she's forgetting why she came out and then decides to go back.
Thinking it was an infection, I started her on baytril and amoxicillin right away as soon as I noticed the symptoms, last Thursday, and then the vet put her on metacam on Monday. He wasn't confident enough to give a diagnosis at that time. He said he didn't think it was respiratory.
She does not appear to be getting better. She is down to 235g yesterday.
She is still hungry, and will eat applesauce and yogurt when placed in the cage, and Ensure when I inject it into her mouth, but I don't think she is interested in eating her regular food (perhaps because she cant pick it up). She didn't seem interested in a piece of fried egg earlier.
Also, when I tried to give her a capful of ensure, she kept getting it in her nose and then would have to sneeze it back out. IDK if this is just her being unfamiliar with drinking from a bowl, or because she couldn't hold up her head. I am very worried.
How can I narrow in on what is wrong with her?
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