My Leo is Dying

[Pissykrissy3]

Hello everyone.
I'm very sad to say that my beautiful leopard gecko, Hummus, is very sick. I've spent close to $200 on vet visits, medicine, and a uvb tube bulb and fixture. She started out just having diarrhea, but by now she ate once last week which was the first time in 3 weeks, but not again. She shed the other day and hardly got all the skin off, even on her tail. Her colour had gone from bright yellow to brown almost, and she has been sleeping nearly night and day. My vet claims I'm doing everything correctly with her cage, feeding, and handling. If I were to figure this out I would have to fork out another $100 that I simply don't have. I can't seem to force feed her, and I don't want her to drop her tail as it is the only food source right now. Does anyone have any ideas of anything to do? I hate to say it but I might just have to wait it out until the end. Does anyone have any suggestions? Even if it's a way to make her more comfortable? I'm not sure how much longer she'll be.

 

[Aimless]

if you can't help her, the only humane choice is euthanasia. "waiting it out" is cruel, and there is no way to make her more comfortable, unfortunately.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Hello everyone.
I'm very sad to say that my beautiful leopard gecko, Hummus, is very sick. I've spent close to $200 on vet visits, medicine, and a uvb tube bulb and fixture. She started out just having diarrhea, but by now she ate once last week which was the first time in 3 weeks, but not again. She shed the other day and hardly got all the skin off, even on her tail. Her colour had gone from bright yellow to brown almost, and she has been sleeping nearly night and day. My vet claims I'm doing everything correctly with her cage, feeding, and handling. If I were to figure this out I would have to fork out another $100 that I simply don't have. I can't seem to force feed her, and I don't want her to drop her tail as it is the only food source right now. Does anyone have any ideas of anything to do? I hate to say it but I might just have to wait it out until the end. Does anyone have any suggestions? Even if it's a way to make her more comfortable? I'm not sure how much longer she'll be.

Hi ~

Please share a picture of leo Hummus and her enclosure right away.

Many GU members have years of experience with leopard geckos. We can help you troubleshoot her care. It's important that we know all current details. That's the only way we can responsibly help Hummus.

What diagnosis did the vet give? Maybe someone on GU can help you with assist feeding?

Last time she pooped, what did it look like? Color of her urates? Hoping that you removed the D3 from the enclosure. Did the vet run any fecals?

Tell us what the temperatures are under her warm DRY hide and the temperature of the cool end. What type thermometer have you?

Names of medications?

Please stick with this thread for comprehensive suggestions.

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

From 23 Sept 2014

Hello! This is all the information I can think to list.
Name: Hummus
Gender: Most likely Female
Age: Approximately 9 months old (owned for
Diet: Live mealworms (only until November, my temporary residence owner doesn't want me keeping crickets) and two wax worms a week (fatten her up a little)
Heating: UTH
Substrate: Paper towel
Hides: One hide on heated side (humid), one on cool (though she hardly uses them anymore)
Extra: Calcium with d3 in a dish that she licks from, water dish, 10g tank waiting for money for 20g
Issue: She shed two nights ago, and yesterday I began helping her remove a bit of skin from her face and head with qtips+water+shed ease, however her eye is being held shut. I managed to get any skin around the eye off (there was some underneath), and her eye was still squinty and only opening fully occasionally, and the very edges of the lids seemed a bit red/pink, even though the left eys is fine. Maybe it's a new colour, I don't know. I used an eye dropper to drip a single drop of saline wound wash (water and 0.9% sodium chloride) on her eye, because I read that it can help them. It almost seemed like it worked for a few min, but she closed up again. I'm guessing that it's retained skin in there that I can't get out. Does this mean that I need to take her to the vet? Or do you think there's something else I can do?
Thanks so much